Example sentences of "they [vb past] [that] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 2 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 3 | The scene was filmed , but the problems started when they realized that it would not be possible for them to be lowered to the ground , as planned . |
| 4 | I asked that the link road from to Lane , which had been omitted , should be included in the town plan and Councillor has written on that matter to District Council and they agreed that it should be . |
| 5 | They abandoned this idea when they realised that it would mean the end of the NSDAP in Danzig . |
| 6 | They argued that it would act as a mirror " to reflect the desires , opinions and hardships of the Thai society " so as to promote unity , ensure that the population 's grievances were heard , and prevent future crises from undermining the country and its institutions . |
| 7 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 8 | But they believed that it would be a small part of the £21.3 million . ’ |
| 9 | There was one , but the Austrians had it reduced in size because they believed that it might be used as an observation tower by the recalcitrant Milanese . |
| 10 | They estimated that it would take them four months to build the cells , the measuring equipment and constant temperature baths . |
| 11 | They decided that it could only be because Joan 's health was so poor in the fens that the professor was forced to move . |
| 12 | When the people realized it was not alive , they decided that it must belong to the Man-Mountain , and the King ordered them to bring it to me . |
| 13 | They felt that it should be targeted at those most in need and was really only useful for a small proportion of people with mental health problems . |
| 14 | My mother left me a property in Lesotho when she died , and they insisted that it must be in my husband 's name . |
| 15 | They thought that it might be leukaemia . |
| 16 | They thought that it might be excusable to exploit situations to promote the individual MP 's career within his own party or to look after constituency interests , but it was quite inexcusable to open up opportunities for the Opposition to criticize the government . |
| 17 | They thought that it could only just have died . |
| 18 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 19 | That 's it , that 's what I had they told and they said that it might be that she 's just , she 's just is small for her size , but it might be that Katie taken all the goodness from Hannah |
| 20 | Perhaps they hoped that it would be able to hide in the fog . |
| 21 | However , the case of R v South Glamorgan Appeals Committee ex parte Evans ( 1984 ) showed that when looking at individual claims for a school place , it was necessary for an appeal committee to determine first whether the admission of one further child would prejudice efficient education at the school ( with the onus on the LEA to show that it would ) : if they concluded that it would not , they would have to allow the appeal . |
| 22 | By attempting to show that the monetary changes were not associated with the changes in national income , they concluded that it must be the change in the money supply that causes the change in national income . |
| 23 | They suspected that it might work by inserting its own genes — and in particular the ‘ promotor ’ DNA that activates them — next to an innocent cellular proto-oncogene , thus stirring it to an unnatural and cancer-causing level of activity . |
| 24 | These limitations did not make rapid movement impossible , as Marlborough showed in 1704 and Frederick II in 1757 ; but they ensured that it should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 25 | They were under no obligation to employ any of the prize-winners , who should be ‘ fully satisfied by the payment to them of the liberal premiums awarded to them ’ , and they considered that it would be , |