Example sentences of "[noun] [that] they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is argued that even if researchers do not really believe in the religion that they are studying , they will get more information if they pretend to do so — if , in other words , they use covert , rather than overt , methods of investigation . |
| 2 | Having assessed the possibilities of the transaction , the financiers will then wish to evaluate in detail the risks that they are likely to take . |
| 3 | A dangerous species is defined as ‘ a species ( a ) which is not commonly domesticated in the British Islands and ( b ) whose fully grown animals normally have such characteristics that they are likely , unless restrained , to cause severe damage or that any damage they may cause is likely to be severe . ’ |
| 4 | If he was not back tonight , then he would be tomorrow and if he was late , she must tell Bert that they were going to Ireland on Tuesday , early . |
| 5 | Their pursuit of high-level official corruption , and the perception that they were being victimized for it , had earned Gdlyan and Ivanov significant public support . |
| 6 | These councillors convinced a big section of the electorate that they are capable of helping to run public services throughout the province . |
| 7 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 8 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 9 | They are usually so directly continuous with the tergum that they are regarded as postero-lateral outgrowths of that region . |
| 10 | Large demands have to be floated gently and you must stay in touch with the other party 's reactions by looking for signals that they are being pushed too far or too fast . |
| 11 | According to Parker these compounds are such strong ionophores that they were ‘ highly ineffective ’ at detecting arylammonium ions , such as ephedrinium , in the presence of metal ions . |
| 12 | They create the illusion that they are the sum total of their own accomplishments . |
| 13 | According to Dunsire ( 1982 , p. 15 ) , ‘ quango-hunting ’ has since 1979 ‘ become a Conservative blood-sport , under the illusion that they are nothing but wasteful ‘ empire-building ’ ' . |
| 14 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 15 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 16 | It was a farce , a terrible play , but still a real play because these two were acting out a charade of fright and face-saving and if he did anything to break the illusion that they were still taking decisions for themselves then he was going to get himself shot . |
| 17 | Cynthia also admitted that maybe if they really had got staffing problems they would actually have to look at whether they , they did keep maintaining the , the sub offices that they were . |
| 18 | Disappointment that they were losing the best American M D they had ever had , after less than one year , and alarm in the knowledge that his demotion almost certainly meant the end of the recovery and expansion plans , and possibly the end of vehicle manufacture in the UK . |
| 19 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 20 | These are conflicts that exist because managers ' interests are only indirectly and imperfectly linked to profit maximisation , with the result that they are liable to adopt divergent goals more focally connected with increasing the benefits attached to the occupancy of managerial office . |
| 21 | The peasantry of Telana had become involved in international trade , with the result that they were affected by world booms and slumps . |
| 22 | However , Jenny explained that there were few feminists and a small number of women teachers who were involved in equal opportunities work , with the result that they were rarely treated seriously ( cf Joyce , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | So stable were these chemical compounds that they were passed on from prey to predator by their accumulation in fatty tissue , involving a metabolic process which led to higher concentrations as the insecticide was passed along the chain . |
| 24 | To distinguish the snakes , the term Rainbow Serpent is applied , due to the widespread belief among Aborigines that they are capable of assuming the form of the rainbow when they desire to do so . |
| 25 | … And I think you 've also got to have people who do bear in mind that they 're about one of the few parts of the authority that are in the forefront of the people and are basically representing the authority . |
| 26 | Bearing in mind that they 're only six and seven in my class , er , and then talking erm , about how they travelled in cars , and and how many of them had ridden in the front seat , er , and most of them put their hands up , and I mean , the recommendation is that if you 're under twelve years of age , you should never ride in the front seat , and so on and so forth . |
| 27 | Not all these are easily or indeed ever available to outsiders , but they should still be considered as potential sources of data , bearing in mind that they are produced as by-products of social , economic , and political processes . |
| 28 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 29 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 30 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |