Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] they [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 2 | If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready . |
| 3 | Unlike Meadow 's syndrome mothers , these women did not seem to relish their child 's hospital stay , nor were they willing to subject them to any investigation , however painful and unpleasant . |
| 4 | And at least one philosopher ( Routley 1981 ) is prepared to defend them in this view . |
| 5 | And of course if you 've got any questions in the two days I 'm not just going to er at you all the time you know it 's participation is this so any questions that you have any comments you want to make please feel free to make them at any time it 's not going to throw me . |
| 6 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 7 | Now , five years later , the battles are won ( significant skirmishes remain , but it would be unwise and ungenerous to detail them at this point ) . |
| 8 | NEWSPAPERS , radio and television have commissioned an orgy of more than 100 polls during this election campaign but the five main pollsters — MORI , Gallup , Harris , ICM and NOP — have embarked on a price war likely to leave them with little profit . |
| 9 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 10 | With these processes , our edge processes and the technique of conjugation , one can actually solve all four of our basic subproblems independently of the others and it is possible to do them in any order , although it is difficult to orient pieces that are not yet in their correct position . |
| 11 | These three questions clearly overlap , but can be treated as conceptually separate , and it is helpful to disentangle them in this way at least initially . |
| 12 | As the law now stands it is legal to grow the mushrooms , and eat them fresh , but illegal to prepare them in any way — even by cooking . |
| 13 | It is worth noting , however , that one of the ideas behind the risk theory , namely that losses should be borne by the party best able to absorb them with least dislocation and disruption , is a very popular one in the ( private ) law of tort where the theory of fault liability is , in some areas at least , under attack . |
| 14 | To illustrate this point , I have given an example of a pattern for a knitted rectangle here in all three types of pattern notation , so that you will be able to relate them to each other . |
| 15 | It may be argued on the one hand that where the owner of goods was under no tortious liability for their appearance on the occupier 's land , he ought to be able to retake them in any event , provided he does no injury to the premises or gives adequate security for making good any unavoidable injury . |
| 16 | I shall be happy to receive them in any form in which the hon. Gentleman cares to send them — but they should probably go to the independent regulator , as he well knows . |
| 17 | If you have babies or young children you will be able to lift them with little effort . |
| 18 | Traditionally the merchant banks have been the main financial advisers in a merger or acquisition deal — they traded very much on their reputation for knowing all the right people and being able to approach them at any time . |
| 19 | Very difficult to quantify them at this stage but certainly it 's it 's my advice that er there will be distinct improvements in the environment . |
| 20 | But they all counted as pieces on the diplomatic chessboard and enjoyed some sort of self-government ; it is convenient to regard them at this point as comparable entities . |
| 21 | However , because they are usually put forward as essentially rules for creating ads , it is probably best to discuss them in this chapter too . |
| 22 | First off , its a little premature to judge them at this stage . |
| 23 | Cases ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , involving chelating and bridging ligands , lead to slightly reduced frequencies for both bond stretches , down to about 1500 cm -1 for and about 900 cm -1 for , and it is not usually possible to distinguish them in this way . |
| 24 | That provides them with some work and pocket money . |
| 25 | Because these instructions are stored , and not the pattern of dots , it is possible to reproduce them on any system at whatever size is required . |
| 26 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 27 | Ideally , we should not need others to point this out to us , but be alert to our own capabilities and ready to use them in another context . |
| 28 | Rangers have five wins and two draws from their games since the first round of the European Cup in September and respond to the fact that opposing teams are keener to attack them in that competition than they are in the Premier Division . |