Example sentences of "[verb] that they could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 2 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 3 | The military blocked everyone in on campus and the police announced that they could shoot you without asking questions . |
| 4 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 5 | The effect was instantaneous : Raby sent back a poem in the same rhyme-scheme saying that they could have their shelves . |
| 6 | The Rosenblooms had long known that they could take her with them anywhere in society . |
| 7 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 8 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 9 | The regions are far too big and complex to be handled from Detroit and even if they were foolish enough to believe that they could do it more effectively — which they ca n't — they would be crazy to try . ’ |
| 10 | They thought that they could wear her down . |
| 11 | If they proved that they could deliver what they promised , well and good . |
| 12 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 13 | However , in its first two terms the Conservative government was more interested in the sale of council houses , and it was only when this policy was fully established that they could turn their whole attention to the rented sector . |
| 14 | The body began , very faintly , in all its parts and regions , to twitch , as if its muscles , its very bloodstream , wished to prove that they could maintain their living functions . |