Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 2 | For the older 40-plus age groups , often high-flying career woman who have remained childless and perhaps unmarried , the principal sources of despair and anxiety are very often an inability to accept that they are nearing the end of their reproductive years , coupled with the fear of growing old and being lonely . |
| 3 | Treatment Centres tent to find that they can not predict which people are most likely to obtain lasting recovery . |
| 4 | One , to protect the members ' you know , interests in each department to see that they got the , a , a time limit you know , to go onto the scheme , that the consultation took place . |
| 5 | It is preposterous for the Opposition to claim that they can introduce such a tax and then complain about the Government 's introducing a new tax in 1993 . |
| 6 | It was , perhaps , something of a disappointment to find that they were all from Britain and that , therefore , the genuine folk background was lacking . |
| 7 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 8 | Tracks like ‘ Is Wrestling Fixed ? ’ and the poignant ‘ England ’ were ( are ! ) convincing enough progressions away from their old ramalama Pet Shop Boys punk to suggest that they have n't run out ideas yet . |
| 9 | These indices have an international reputation and require constant supervision and maintenance to ensure that they satisfactorily reflect market developments . |
| 10 | The nutrients have to be evenly mixed with this carrier to ensure that they are well distributed throughout each dose . |
| 11 | Russia 's prolonged struggle with Turkey gave Prussia and Austria the leverage to ensure that they should benefit from the dismantling of Polish independence . |
| 12 | There is a tendency of protagonists of the computational theory of mind to boast that they are restoring the Aristotelian emphasis on cognition and thought , and unseating Descartes ' modernist emphasis on consciousness . |
| 13 | But the Home Secretary 's fraudulent attempt to imply that they were all destined for Heathrow does him no credit and should cause him shame . |
| 14 | I understand that there will not be one , but I end on this note : that will allow the official Opposition to say that they did not oppose the Bill because there was no vote on Second Reading . |
| 15 | Under the 1953 Act , it is an offence to carry a weapon in a public place unless you have permission or a good reason , and the onus is on the carrier to show that they have one or the other . |
| 16 | Any attempt to prove that they were misled by fraud or otherwise would necessarily involve an inquiry into the manner in which they had performed their functions in dealing with the Bill which became the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 17 | It seems that potency level is as much to do with satisfying the need of the practitioner to feel that they are doing something as being a systematic deductive process ! |
| 18 | However , it is certainly an exaggeration to claim that they have been ‘ proletarianized ’ . |
| 19 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 20 | Surely marriage and prostitution are separate and it insults marriage to infer that they thrive on one another ? |
| 21 | Having examined how the law defines the ends for which directors must use their powers , we are now in a position to consider the law 's capacity to ensure that they act within the bounds laid down . |
| 22 | While it is incumbent upon Bank Management to ensure that they operate profitably to secure profits for expansion , payment to staff and also payment to shareholders , it is also incumbent upon them to display an allegiance to the economy in which they make their profits . |
| 23 | Moses is expressly commanded to count the people upon entering the Sinai wilderness to ensure that they can subsequently be accounted for . |
| 24 | We made the mistake of not having enough of our own practical management to check that they were doing the right thing . |
| 25 | Although the exiled Decembrists worried local officials and prompted a Governor-General to recommend that they be sent elsewhere because they were " gradually disseminating their ideas and … might be harmful " , they were far less militant than exiled Poles , whose plans to take over Omsk in 1833 seem to have given the authorities their largest Siberian scare of the reign . |
| 26 | He was the first scientist to suggest that they may have led a more vigorous life than the reptiles , and even proffered an atmospheric reason as to why they became extinct . |
| 27 | " I wo n't be late , " he said and it took her a moment to remember that they were speaking of Miss Dallam 's wedding-breakfast . |
| 28 | Immigrant doctors in Britain may silently have put up with a lot of it in the past , but those born and educated in Britain have every right to expect that they will be judged strictly on merit . |
| 29 | It must also be right to have proper mechanisms in place to ensure that they get value for money . |
| 30 | Einhard 's criticism that the late Merovingians travelled around in ox-carts ignored the fact that in so doing they were copying late Roman provincial governors , who used this means of transport to ensure that they were accessible to petitioners . |