Example sentences of "[adj] that they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Careful experiments have made it clear that they take note of the geographical features below them and when leaving their home loft they circle above it as if refreshing their memory with one last look before departing . |
| 2 | Now they were making it clear that they expected more from her : " If I had done reasonably well , they would say that I should have done better , and if I had done badly , they would ask , " What 's wrong with you ? " " |
| 3 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 4 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 5 | Those housewives who ‘ do n't mind ’ ironing make it clear that they dislike the task itself , yet have found conditions under which it becomes bearable . |
| 6 | It is also clear that they understood the logic of tacit collusion , put very clearly by one firm : |
| 7 | He and his advisers were so dismayed as to misread the letter , for the reply makes it clear that they understood the meeting of the princes to have taken place already . |
| 8 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 9 | It seems clear that they had corresponded during 1796 , and by the time they met again at Stowey they were well acquainted with each other 's work . |
| 10 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 11 | It is clear that they had already formulated their ideas and been moving towards confirming them , but the definite proof still awaited the energy sensitive neutron spectrometer . |
| 12 | Although Glasgow District Council ( GDC ) supported Heatfest , they made it clear that they had not the resources to implement any radical outcome . |
| 13 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 14 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 15 | It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them . |
| 16 | Whether or not this advance notice had any bearing on the government 's response , when the subpoenas were served on 29 September , the FBI , the DEA , the State Department , the National Security Agency , the CIA and the National Security Council each made it clear that they had no intention of complying with them . |
| 17 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 18 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 19 | Comparing them to the English Baroque woodwinds , it is clear that they became the prototype and standard for English makers well into the 18th century . |
| 20 | Other leading figures of the party made it clear that they share his sentiments . |
| 21 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 22 | His new Food and Beverage Manager is in favour , but the idea was resisted by the original departmental heads , who made it clear that they preferred the old system . |
| 23 | Those are all prominent Scottish Conservatives who have made it clear that they believe that the Conservative party should have joined , and even now should still join , the Scottish Constitutional Convention . |
| 24 | Nicholas Brady , the US Treasury Secretary and David Mulford , his aggressive deputy , have made it clear that they want Mr Greenspan to lower interest rates and do it quickly . |
| 25 | It seems clear that they do and that a comprehension of such differentiation and its basis is part of the apparatus of significant agents , and in particular of speculative builders , in their own active differentiation of locales . |
| 26 | The French , on the other hand , are so clear that they do n't make sense either . |
| 27 | It is clear that they do not wish to take responsibility . |
| 28 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 29 | But , they also go on headed note paper which says Oxford City Council Environmental Health Department and all the other stuff we put on the top , erm and it 's perfectly clear that they do come from the City Department upon your behalf . |
| 30 | When both the Minister for Justice , General McEoin , and the Attorney General , Mr Charles Casey , made it clear that they considered the legislation inopportune , pressure for an explanation eventually brought forward a response from Mr Casey . |