Example sentences of "[vb base] that they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there is no reason to believe that the Franks were involved in any long-distance migration : archaeology and history suggest that they originated in the lands immediately to the east of the Rhine . |
| 2 | Most readers report that they infer from ( 9 ) that John is a schoolboy , among other things . |
| 3 | Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk . |
| 4 | I realise that they looked for a family atmosphere , but is imposing this solution in such an arbitrary way really in the best interests of the game ? |
| 5 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 6 | Three out of four PMT sufferers say that they overspend in the days before their period starts — the average ‘ blown ’ is £39 — and some women spend more than £100 , premenstrually , on unnecessary extras . |
| 7 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |
| 8 | Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . |
| 9 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 10 | Some people say that they believe in the Devil but not in demons . |
| 11 | The Government say that they believe in open government . |
| 12 | But even those who discard books forget that they exist in a real world and that the booksellers sell to real customers . |
| 13 | Critics of the Ellis-Beto era contend that they traded off abuse by staff for abuse by inmates , in order to achieve a controlled and disciplined prison environment . |
| 14 | No longer through Bibles , sacred texts and holy writ is the world conquered , but by the promise that if the poorest countries will carry out the prescriptions — indeed , the orders — of the western financial institutions , they too will achieve the levels of affluence and ease that they see in the western world . |
| 15 | Furthermore , and even more important , various writers clearly show that they thought of England as a nation . |
| 16 | Observations show that they persist in waking periodically , even if remaining quiet , and the establishment of uninterrupted night-time sleep is uncommon before three months of age . |
| 17 | Many teenage children feel unable to talk to parents about intimate or emotional issues but it is important to be ready to talk , if they show that they want to . |
| 18 | ‘ The programme enables pupils to gain practical experience of the world of work , ’ she said ‘ and we hope that they return to school more confident and mature and better equipped to make informed decisions about their future . ’ |
| 19 | The qualities that are disapproved of are ones they do n't think they have , or consider that they keep under control . |
| 20 | In nature they will be able to feel the stripes of their background , and ensure that they settle in a camouflaged posture . |
| 21 | They do not have the wherewithal to carry out the administration and paperwork or to watch over them and ensure that they learn on the job and produce an effective piece of craftsmanship . |
| 22 | We infer that they accumulated during periods of accelerated soil erosion . |
| 23 | But does n't every band from that area maintain that they met in the Hacienda ? |
| 24 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 25 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , we know that they come from behind the Iron Curtain and that there are vast stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the Eastern Bloc . |
| 27 | And how do men and women know that they belong to this community ? |
| 28 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 29 | Yet the evidence from their earliest word uses , their requests for the names of things , and their repairs to their own utterances , all indicate that they opt for Conventionality as they begin to use their first language . |
| 30 | The high incidence of vessels compared with dishes may , as Evison suggests ( ibid. ) , imply that they arrived as containers of oil or wine ; the crude workmanship of some examples may emphasise that the contents were more important than the packaging , even though they may have been viewed as valuable objects in some secondary function . |