Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many of that team got well over 10 years service that they just had to join the queue . |
| 2 | While their relationship managed to remain friendly they saw each other less and less in the years to come . |
| 3 | A lot of my mates said if they were going out with someone and they got pregnant they would run . |
| 4 | Errant mothers wished that they were n't or , given that they were , had a different case officer from Frau Nordern . |
| 5 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |
| 6 | But given that they can have their position specified , and can interpret this position so as to form the pattern , then this provides a very powerful means of generating patterns . |
| 7 | The impression has been given that they can not live independently in ordinary housing . |
| 8 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 9 | There will be found a wealth of information in all kinds of forms — from details of sites which have been excavated and studied , to actual examples of materials used , given that they have been sufficiently durable as to survive . |
| 10 | Yet this begs the question of how policy initiatives should be assessed , given that they regularly embody flawed conceptualisations of urban crisis , were created in contentious circumstances and reflect spatial realisations of a political agenda as much as objectively circumscribed social problems . |
| 11 | Rigby reckoned that the referee , who had the casting vote , was sure to side with Harlequins given that they had six players in the England side for the following week . |
| 12 | Given that they 're feeling unwell to start with , this can lead to tears . |
| 13 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 14 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 15 | But it 's not really that much of a boast given that they also have bigger buttocks , breasts , and just about everything really . |
| 16 | The following sections investigate the utility of these different sources of information , given that they will of necessity be uncertain . |
| 17 | Given the conditions in which most teachers are working , and given that they are human beings — that is , they have limitations on what they can do , and how well and how fast they can do it — they could not be feeling otherwise than rushed and confused , nor acting otherwise than fallibly . |
| 18 | But prima facie the generous semantic account of their project is much more plausible , given that they are agents just like us except insofar as they can not hear . |
| 19 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 20 | This was odd , given that they had already been cleared before the presidential primary elections held last March . |
| 21 | In addition , given that they had little , if any , social contact with the ‘ older ’ user group , there was little street wisdom about the consequences of heroin use . |
| 22 | The costs to the service in terms of resources such as teaching aids should be relatively little , given that they are often reusable , while opportunity costs , such as time taken in learning how to teach and time in which to teach , could be recouped through the improved patient care which results from heightened awareness of current trends and developments . |
| 23 | Why is it , for instance , that young children are not asking questions given that they have detected an ambiguity ? |
| 24 | In answer to the question of what sort of facts they are , the answer will be given that they are neural facts , facts about the Central Nervous Systems of ourselves and other species . |
| 25 | Given that they will have their hands on the purse strings , postgraduate deans will be able to insist on substantial improvements in the educational content of senior house officer posts . |
| 26 | On the ‘ beefed-up ’ engine front we have Genicom making more of the speed advantage than their increased resolution while Agfa are hardly making any noise at all about either of their 400dpi devices — although they may feel the same anxiety pangs as AM Varityper given that they also own Compugraphic . |
| 27 | Given that they are working with a small sample and that the likelihood ratio test is a large sample test , ADD do not consider the evidence to be strong enough to reject the null hypothesis . |
| 28 | The only exception to this is that the test machine arrived without one of its little rubber feet , something that I feel might happen quite regularly , given that they just screw in with a small self-tapping screw , and have no supporting adhesive to really make things permanent . |
| 29 | These investigations are crucial , given that they form the basis on which decisions are taken which have the potential of involving your Company in not little expense either with regard to extrajudicial settlement or where repudiations are maintained and subsequent legal expense incurred . |
| 30 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |