Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I found it a little strange they were suggesting that an alternative approach may be suitable here , particularly when th the evidence has n't been put forw or gone through the public consultation process . |
| 2 | She warned her successors ‘ to be jolly careful they do n't give government too many extra powers and undo what I 've done ’ . |
| 3 | Because the cells are sickle cell shaped and rather rigid they have difficulty passing through fine blood capillaries , and this results in the tissues not having enough oxygen , causing anaemia . |
| 4 | You notice immediately that it is different from other parts of the country , because the roads are very narrow and windy and the hedges well built and in most cases so tall they are impossible to see over . |
| 5 | His eyes were so narrow they looked like gun-slits . |
| 6 | The physician nodded and , scooping up his philtres and potions into a leather sheet , led Cranston and Athelstan from Whitefriars down a maze of streets so narrow they continued to lead their horses . |
| 7 | I know actually only Prudential they are leading a campaign round schools I believe erm you know trying to get more teachers interested in A B Cs . |
| 8 | They cost £2.50 a quarter , but are so rich they 're a small treat you can spread out . |
| 9 | . By the time they pack up work they 'll be so decrepit they wo n't be able to do anything . |
| 10 | Accents were so strong they could not even understand each other . |
| 11 | Feelings so strong they made things happen — made the Worm grow . ’ |
| 12 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 13 | No-one is suggesting that the forecast famine will be transformed into a flush but auctioneers anticipate prices being so strong they will be impossible to ignore and predict that reasonable numbers of finished steers and bulls will be pulled on to the market . |
| 14 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 15 | Many retired people expect to slow down , expect their health to deteriorate ; in fact , their expectations are so low they do little to make their lives full and interesting . |
| 16 | Finnan 's passengers stowed most of their gear in the hold and the Hearthwares slept there , but there was room for the others in the three-sided cabin , though the roof was so low they bumped their heads . |
| 17 | The emergency doctor was called , the doctor phoned for an ambulance , and for Alice to be taken to hospital , but when the ambulance staff tested for her blood pressure , it was so low they hardly got a reading . |
| 18 | Second , you can not storm barricades that are manned by people so polite they even congratulate Brian Redhead on his ‘ magnificent handling of this debate ’ ( particularly as Brian hardly said anything ) . |
| 19 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
| 20 | One family is so upset they can no longer bear to look after the girl they were given . |
| 21 | And it was sort of quite a thing when that was , went up , and ooh it was so awful they had some terrible things in this town did n't they ? |
| 22 | When this did n't lead to anything , Rosette continued , ‘ They 'll be so sorry they missed you . ’ |
| 23 | Knowing how much his brother had meant to him and how happy Jonathan 's slow progress towards regaining his health had made him , Julia could hardly say , ‘ I 'm so sorry they 're dead . ’ |
| 24 | The Whitehall-propagated view is that the changes in Eastern Europe are so momentous they render European Monetary Union , a common fiscal policy and the charter obsolete . |
| 25 | if their answers are so private they do |
| 26 | Dozens of animals were so weak they had to be shot on the spot . |
| 27 | And for RSPCA inspectors , who found cattle on the farm so weak they had to be shot on the spot , it was an important victory . |
| 28 | Some warrens are so extensive they can range over as much as 50 acres or take in a complete gravel working . |
| 29 | C H SPURGEON remarked : some ministers would make good martyrs — they are so dry they would burn well |
| 30 | Most evenings they were so exhausted they had to be carried home on their parents ' shoulders . |