Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 2 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 3 | ‘ IT IS time trade union leaders realised that what they perceive as power merely prolongs their political impotence and deprives their members of a telling voice in the corridor of power . |
| 4 | The students confide that what they really like is the outing , which gives them an excuse to escape from Dublin and meet the ‘ quality ’ . |
| 5 | In antiquity no insignia such as cup or Bible were handed to the person ordained , and the clergy did not initially wear special vestments ; they were simply instructed to see that what they wore was ‘ wholly clean ’ . |
| 6 | The fools , not to see that what they madly desire would be such a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring upon them . ’ |
| 7 | The families stress that what they need most is information — and quickly . |
| 8 | And they [ the mothers ] fear that everything they say will be identified as evidence of abuse . ’ |
| 9 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 10 | And though Douglas on the surface was more generous , more giving than his sometimes taciturn elder son , Shiona recognised that what they shared in common was that fierce individuality and sense of purpose that had brought Douglas , through his own efforts , from rags to great riches . |
| 11 | Leaders make others feel that what they are doing matters and hence makes them feel good about their work . |
| 12 | It seemed that what they wanted most was facilities . |
| 13 | To suggest that what they were doing before was of low priority is a misleading simplification — could one for example conclude that if a professor moves from one department to another he does so because the former is of low quality ? |
| 14 | These unusual circumstances , and cases of corrupt diversion of corporate assets aside , however , it will in general be very difficult to demonstrate that the directors did not believe that what they were doing would maximise profits , because of the often insuperable problem of distinguishing between means and ends that this entails . |
| 15 | Most people will see that what they feel and the reality of what occurs are two totally different things . |
| 16 | A trade union education that is — as some have rightly advocated — open to members as well as representatives , broad-based and educational rather than narrow and role-specific , continuing and recurrent rather than ad hoc and disparate , will itself produce limited and ephemeral results unless working people can see that what they learn is also practised in their own organisations . |
| 17 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 18 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 19 | Children who do put their claims in writing are then told that what they have written will be shown to the teacher they are accusing . |
| 20 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 21 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 22 | Er I suspect that what they 've sent us is the software but not the database for any wards and the the deal was that we would get er at least er the database for two wards er and a printout annotated with telephone numbers of the er electoral register . |
| 23 | The European Community reckons that what they call the ‘ decency threshold ’ ought to be £207.13 , while the minimum wage proposed by the Labour Party was £147.85 . |
| 24 | he was saying all the sort say at work you know that they they do n't know and they start on about er |
| 25 | You know that they they do n't think of that though . |
| 26 | It 's trying , they 're rak you know that they they erm A A A A A A I , A A I . |
| 27 | All over the world ordinary people are marching , demonstrating , making their voices heard , letting the people in power know that what they want is a peaceful world for themselves and their children . |
| 28 | The brief given to the three craftworkers approached this year emphasised that what they produce must qualify as a high quality art object in its own right , preferably of a contemporary nature , and suitable to be displayed in the offices or boardrooms of this years ABSA award winners . |
| 29 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 30 | they came up to you if there 's two women together they assume that they have the right to talk to you , that you 're going to be interested in them , and if you tell them to get lost however politely , you can get a very , very unpleasant response because they assume that what they have to say is more important ! |