Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 2 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
| 3 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 4 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 5 | This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory . |
| 6 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 7 | By the end of the century they were dividing its work betwen them in a systematic and efficient way . |
| 8 | Ruthin join them in the last four after routing Rhos on Sea 8–1 , Arwyn Pierce and Stephen Flanagan and Geraint Wyn Jones and Dave Fuller with three wins and Sid Smith and Stefan Dowitcz two . |
| 9 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 10 | Webs of bilateral deals protect them from the full brunt of competition . |
| 11 | The statement made by the right hon. Gentleman on 2 July included the following two sentences : ’ At present advice and assistance but not representation are available to those whose means qualify them under the legal aid green form scheme . |
| 12 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 13 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 14 | More cubs will be reared by cheetahs whose genes equip them with the optimum compromise between running speed , milk production and all the other calls on their budget . |
| 15 | The girls join them for a final splash in the pool . |
| 16 | Low temperatures place them at no obvious disadvantage — they have evolved physiological systems that allow them to move just as fast as temperate or tropical fish , and they are no easier to catch . |
| 17 | Many bodies have stated that the grant aid procedures and the application form provide them with a ready basis for an effective budgeting system . |
| 18 | Some areas of their anatomy link them to the marine sharks . |
| 19 | The minutes of the SGM held on the 4th May 1990 were read and it was agreed that the chairman sign them as a true record . |
| 20 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 21 | The manager and waiters treat them to a respectful embalming . |
| 22 | Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities . |
| 23 | Positive and negative pressures applied to straight edged polygons and polyhedra convert them from the crystalline forms of rocks and earths to the positive and negative , male and female , expressions of life . |
| 24 | I doubt if at present you can have it reregistered on an age related basis , but when you write to DVLC ask them at the same time . |
| 25 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |