Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the round before they attack , the valley is filled with their bizarre hoots and screeches , which they use in the same manner as bats to navigate and locate their prey . |
| 2 | When these enterprises do manage to take hold the next key question is the extent to which they hire from the local community and from disadvantaged groups ( e.g. the long-term unemployed ) . |
| 3 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 4 | The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 5 | The two men , also squatting , are thrown flesh and bones which they pound in the bowl-like depressions . |
| 6 | The channels with which each of the tanks connect at the upper level , and into which they immerse at the lower , lie parallel to one another , but the entrances to each of the upper channels , against which the appropriate tank abuts , are the width of an entire plane apart . |
| 7 | Departments and the fields which they contribute to the Modular Course are not free agents , either in terms of conformity to Course regulations or in being able to project student numbers in isolation . |
| 8 | Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness . |
| 9 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 10 | They accomplish this task by listening to papers delivered on them and by attending ‘ pray-ins ’ in which they pray to the Implied Reader . |
| 11 | When the females have laid their eggs , which they deposit on the moist ground , the males sit in groups around them on guard . |
| 12 | In the study of literature , quantitative methods can never achieve the primacy which they enjoy in the experimental sciences and in many branches of social studies . |
| 13 | Which they work on the same system as a as a rotovator . |
| 14 | However both males and females differ in the control which they have over the many muscles , including the diaphragm , used in voice production . |
| 15 | When , in 1594 , John Parker obtained a grant of a new office for keeping pleadings in Chancery , two of the Six Clerks , who had done his work previously , wrote that ‘ the King by his letters patents may not oust the common people of their rights and inheritance which they have in the common law of this land ’ . |
| 16 | The proper word is , come from a very long word , a real mouthful , phenylketonuria , known as P K U for short P U , and Mr Guffbry developed this test specifically to diagnose this condition , but in nineteen ninety two there are other conditions which they diagnose at the same time with the same blood test , do you know what they are ? |
| 17 | These reasons do not justify the righteous role which they assign to the avenging vigilante . |
| 18 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 19 | The same writer , using the same mix of ink , also headed several of the vocal numbers with the page numbers on which they appear in the second volume of Orpheus Britannicus , published in 1702 . |
| 20 | And this has actually been categorized into two tables and by , they claim that you can define different types of tourists according to , firstly , the way in which they interact with the local people . |
| 21 | The law therefore places duties upon partners which they owe towards the other members of the partnership . |
| 22 | The machines which they order in the good times are apt to arrive in the bad times , when the products can not so easily be sold and when borrowing costs are exceptionally high . |
| 23 | So BBC bosses have to be ultra careful about who they hire for the wholesome , long-running show . |
| 24 | It was a pity , because her parents were n't bad sorts ; like his own , they just believed everything they read in the Daily Telegraph . |
| 25 | They give us their advice on what they know about the voluntary sector , and they give us guidance and help , in fact , the meeting took place er , only two days ago , and absolutely invaluable to be able to sit and listen to people who 've spent their life in the voluntary sector working with some of the difficulties we do n't appreciate . |
| 26 | The teacher asks the children what they know about the old man . |
| 27 | of course it is , apparently say what they like about the Green Party but at least that 's one thing they 're doing something |
| 28 | When they hear a battle is brewing they flock to the battle site , ready to cast themselves into what they regard as the final hopeless battle between good and evil . |
| 29 | Directly related to this theme is the second major concern of libertarian writers : the roots of what they regard as the élitist , coercive nature of the regime established by the Bolsheviks . |
| 30 | Poststructuralists aspire to remove what they regard as the arbitrary distinctions between literature , criticism , theory , and philosophy , and Geoffrey Hartman has made it clear that he believes what he writes to be worthy of the esteem and attention normally given to ‘ creative ’ writing . |