Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contradictions remain but they only become tension and conflict when we are under pressure to perform more than one role at a time . |
| 2 | Could n't Johnny see that they just had to take what was offered ? |
| 3 | These indices have an international reputation and require constant supervision and maintenance to ensure that they satisfactorily reflect market developments . |
| 4 | We have negotiated a special deal with one of the world 's leading car hire organisations , that enables us to pass on to you the corporate rates and preferential service for car hire that they usually offer only to large companies . |
| 5 | When he was quite young he emigrated to Australia ; his girlfriend followed and they eventually married . |
| 6 | The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We get a lot of day trippers motoring around the Downs and they see the signs for Brands Hatch and they automatically put their foot down thinking they 're bleedin' Formula One drivers . ’ |
| 8 | With hungry mouths to feed , the Conference Centre laid on cream teas during the afternoon — which visitors enjoyed as they reputedly got through ‘ an amazing 600 scones and cream ’ — and an evening barbecue . |
| 9 | The percentage reporting that they always felt lonely showed little change with age . |
| 10 | The percentage reporting that they sometimes felt lonely increased from 10 per cent of males and 16 per cent of females aged 70 — 74 to 18 per cent and 27 per cent respectively of those aged 85 + ( Victor 1987 ) . |
| 11 | If you use ball-point pens remember that they too run out or refuse to function : test them before use and take a bundle of them to the examination or the practice session . |
| 12 | Sam Wanamaker enthuses that they now have permission to thatch the roof of the gallery and thrust stage . |
| 13 | An FDA spokesperson said that they now anticipated approaches from companies proposing changes to their labels . |
| 14 | Sviatoslav Richter ( DG made such a memorable recording of the piece , that others have had an almost impossible act to follow unless they too have had something comparably original to say about the work . |
| 15 | Evidence from the wear patterns of teeth shows that they also shared similar diets of soft fruit and young leaves , and it seems likely that the various species operated within similar ecological constraints , although there is evidence of some ecological diversification in contemporaneous hominoids both in diet , for example the more folivorous Rangwapithecus , and in locomotion , for example the long-limbed Dendropithecus . |
| 16 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 17 | No one would call our battered brown book boxes decorative but when the PLANTS appear as they always do that morning of the year , their beauty and colour irradiate all around them . |
| 18 | Their immediate appeal combined with their inspiring vision of Christian community shows that they also reflected a religious reality in their day . |
| 19 | But if workers regard the social security benefits that they now receive as part of their total wage package , and this is fully taken into account in their labour supply decision , then the supply curve will shift back to S1 ; wages and employment returning to their original level . |
| 20 | Gradually , the client 's confidence grows as they regularly list their successes . |
| 21 | A report in New Scientist magazine suggests that dogs bark because they never grow up . |
| 22 | When Christians hear that they usually think it 's spelt S O N but it is n't , it 's S U N and the Sun of Righteousness er with healing in his wings , so Freud says and I believe it 's actually this seen it , it 's very common on Egyptian monuments it 's a picture of a sun er with , with wings , with rays shining out of it . |
| 23 | Here , they are taken by the ocean currents into the Gulf Stream , in which three years pass as they slowly drift towards Europe and make their homes in the rivers , lakes and pools , far distant from their place of birth . |
| 24 | This impressive record began when they both joined in 1950 , Alex as a bank boy in the Wilton department and Jean as a trainee in Spool Setting . |
| 25 | They would pay exactly the same under the rents-to-mortgages scheme as they currently pay in rent — but they would be acquiring their homes , rather than simply being tenants . |
| 26 | Lindsey argued that the tax cuts were not only incentive creating but they also increased the cost of tax avoidance . |
| 27 | Other angry motorists blew their horns and flashed rude two-finger salutes when they finally managed to overtake him . |
| 28 | My suspicion remains that they still want to close Rosyth . ’ |
| 29 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 30 | Things matter because they directly lead to specific and major changes in the life of the Church , its worship and institutional structures . |