Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] they [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 2 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 3 | It would be impractical to attempt to review or catalogue them in this study and , although we will mention some specific products , we will confine this section mainly to illustrating general authoring issues . |
| 4 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 5 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 6 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 7 | They move around the tank , scattering the smaller fish in all directions , although they do n't attack or harm them in any way . |
| 8 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 9 | The Conclusions are circulated very promptly after Cabinet , and up to that time , no minister , certainly not the prime minister , asks to see them or conditions them in any way . ’ |
| 10 | Equally , it is also important for parents to apologise to their children when they have wronged or harmed them in some way . |
| 11 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 12 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 13 | Her substantial and brilliant book A Rhetoric of the Unreal uses the work of French intellectual stars in a familiar and matter-of-fact way , without any of the bedazzlement that surrounds them on this side of the Channel . |
| 14 | The true cats of the genus Felis have a different attachment of the larynx that robs them of this ability . |
| 15 | Looks very well designed , you know there 's nobody that makes them in this country . |
| 16 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 17 | A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 19 | and push them through that loop , it looks |
| 20 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 21 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 22 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 23 | and they get , they get in this country and then they go and exploit them in another country ! |
| 24 | And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away . |
| 25 | Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife . |
| 26 | In the main , however , they employ their temporary workers directly and issue them with some sort of employment contract . |
| 27 | Our awareness of the area under discussion , and our capacity for exercising choice , will increase through the effort of applying them , and balancing them against each other . |
| 28 | Keep the forceps used for handling grids scrupulously clean and wipe them after each step by punching the tips through No.1 Whatman filter paper , or bibulous paper . |
| 29 | ( iii ) To analyse the fluorescence , fix the cells or embryos in 4% formaldehyde in PBS for 10 min , wash them in M2 + BSA and mount them in this medium in the wells of a tissue typing slide ( Baird and Tatlock , see Section 4.1.1 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |