Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many bad habits are formed in horses due to anxiety , occasionally bad habits develop in horses where they receive some tangible reward for their actions , like avoiding work or stealing food . |
| 2 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 3 | Their homeward journey took them via Lille ( where Wolfgang fell ill ) , Ghent , Antwerp and The Hague ( where they gave two public concerts and played , by special request , to the Princess of Weilburg , to whom Wolfgang dedicated a set of six keyboard and violin sonatas ) . |
| 4 | The offensive on the Somme was in jeopardy , and the Italians were suffering in Austrian attacks in the Trentino , where they lost some 300 guns and 150,000 men . |
| 5 | Cookstown sprung into life after this and although they played some flowing football they just could not penetrate a resolute Ballymoney defence until that is the 40th minute when a bad blunder from the Ballymoney goalkeeper Merchant presented Alan Shaw with a simple tap in from only five yards . |
| 6 | Intolerant workers tended to show cycles longer or shorter than twenty-four hours when they were on shifts , although they had normal twenty-four cycles when they had returned to day-work . |
| 7 | Finally , two companies , although they take several online services , expressed doubt about the usefulness of them because of all the difficulties and limitations listed above . |
| 8 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 9 | No it 's four hundred gallons , it 's , it 's , it 's , they do n't like to take any more than that because of the , the weight of water , it 's quite heavy er although they have one special equipment here again one of these roll-on roll-off ones , which is a water tank equipment , and er it carries about a thousand gallons or two thousand gallons of water , er in a tank , water tank and that if you are very short of water will be sent on as well to boost up water supplies in a particular area , so erm that was another one of these pods that we , we designed and , and put on the run . |
| 10 | I shall suggest that , although they capture some superficial similarities between the two issues , they are ultimately misleading . |
| 11 | You know , I think erm rather than they paying all that money for a caravan . |
| 12 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 13 | In this study we found a good agreement between the two tests , particularly considering the fact that they measure two different variables — namely , bile acid losses and bile acid synthesis . |
| 14 | In the case of lift installations it is essential that they receive regular preventative maintenance inspections to meet the paramount conditions of safety and operational efficiency . |
| 15 | members are recommended that they approve these two course of actions , thank you very much . |
| 16 | Nor can I accept that it is my duty to reform hawks and pigeons so that they become well-behaved social humans where the hawks stop grabbing baby pigeons and the pigeons stop nicking my peas . |
| 17 | ‘ An order under section 61(1) that the third , fourth and fifth defendants and each of them pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct or alternatively that they take such other steps as the court may direct for the purpose of remedying the contravention by the first defendant of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 18 | Ivan Foster , in an attempt to show that Knox and Calvin were democrats , pointed out that they sought such popular mandates as were available in their societies . |
| 19 | But it worked out that they spent twenty thousand pounds on letting families go round for these three weeks . |
| 20 | In order to recoup such losses , market makers have to widen their spreads that they charge all other investors , including those wishing to speculate but not privy to inside information . |
| 21 | Pupils must not become so intent on filling in the answers , that they ignore other important factors such as the " feel " and atmosphere of the site . |
| 22 | At first , the executives believed that the reason they could not formulate and implement a viable strategic plan was that they lacked sound financial data . |
| 23 | The problem with old-fashioned community studies was that they lacked any systematic procedure for linking ethnographic observation with accounts of society as a whole . |
| 24 | The problem with states of this kind is not that they exclude all organised groups , as the doctrine of Napoleonic administration says they should , but that they exclude unequally and grant access and favours to certain privileged groups . |
| 25 | As he approached them , Mungo could see that they wore blue uniform trousers under their working clothes . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know much about Kaiserslautern , except that they finished fifth last season and were champions the year before , but we will certainly have them watched . ’ |
| 27 | There was a real desire to get power and that how that they thought that mass mobilization was the only way they could do it . |
| 28 | Good to see that they dropped 2 more points yesterday … if we can get a win tomorrow it will put them in a more realistic range , even though kevin keegan said in todays papers that Leeds did n't stand a chance of catching the scum ! |
| 29 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 30 | Such is the demand for Kamrock 's outrageous wares that they sold one million cards in the first year of business no mean feat since the company was not cracking ribs until 1991 . |