Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [verb] that they " in BNC.

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1 I 'm just saying that they could 've gone
2 One driver told the interviewer : ‘ I 'm always thinking that they 're sat back in the office thinking ‘ Where has he got to ’ , and it puts you on edge so I always drive faster in a company car because time is against me . ’
3 But I was certainly hoping that they [ the widows ] might get a better response .
4 They were both selfish individuals and she was now thinking that they deserved each other .
5 an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education .
6 Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way .
7 They are constantly reminded that they are an independent body , and the decisions they will be called upon to make must be based on their own findings from the information put before them .
8 They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’
9 While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense .
10 If the purchaser 's and the vendor 's accountants are to be involved , and it is strongly recommended that they are , it is imperative that they should be involved as early as possible in negotiating this part of the sale agreement .
11 It is generally thought that they were a new people only in name , and that they were made up of tribes such as the Amsivarii , Chattuarii and Chatti , who are mentioned in earlier sources , but rarely , if at all , in later ones .
12 It is eventually discovered that they are from the ageing Frenchman Bertrand .
13 Local farmers and regional government often hold large emergency stocks which are not counted , but it is nevertheless accepted that they represent a trend .
14 Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " .
15 It is widely thought that they are descended from genes , or groups of genes , of higher organisms , which have somehow escaped and set up life on their own .
16 It is well known that they always develop their more satisfying choreographic ideas when working with a group of dancers whose abilities they know .
17 It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people .
18 It is also said that they are able to exercise an element of independent supervision over inside management .
19 It is usually said that they are quite passive at this stage .
20 Because these three associated religions appear to have in common the belief in one transcendent personal creator , it is often assumed that they all believe in the same God .
21 It is often suggested that they are cheaper .
22 Because the eruptions burst from the viscous sub-layer , it is often suggested that they are produced by an instability there — particularly as some features of the motion in this region resemble features of transition to turbulence in a boundary layer ( for example , the development of fast- and slow-moving regions mentioned above resembles the development of three-dimensionality illustrated by Fig. 18.1 ) .
23 If it is always assumed that they are intellectually inferior , what else is there for them to do … every time teachers are constantly amazed by the fact that in the first year they have at the moment there are two or three really bright West Indian boys , and it 's of constant amazement to people like Mr G … ‘ my goodness he 's bright where does he get it from ’ .
24 True-kin do not necessarily love one another , but it is always presumed that they are friends until they are shown to be enemies .
25 This is convenient because it is now recognised that they are such an important aspect of the transaction ; and pension under-funding or , in recent times more likely , over-funding , can involve such large amounts of money that the arrangements will generally be negotiated separately from the rest of the agreement by specialist pension lawyers from the parties ' solicitors and the parties ' respective actuaries .
26 Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress .
27 This is why to account for their longevity it is now believed that they were a qualified kind of ectothermic homeotherm continually striving to become endothermic homeotherms .
28 It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn .
29 As well as being a threat to the ozone layer and human health , it is now thought that they are especially attracted to the wax coatings on conifer needles , reaching 100 times the concentration in the air .
30 While it is now thought that they are interested in offloading part or all of this holding , it seems that they are not prepared to sell for less than the purchasing price of £1.20 .
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