Example sentences of "[that] they [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nature they will be able to feel the stripes of their background , and ensure that they settle in a camouflaged posture . |
| 2 | The evidence suggests that they operate in a particular way , namely that there are predictable patterns in flows of support between older and younger generations , in which support flows in both directions , but on balance the older generation are the givers and the younger the receivers . |
| 3 | for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other . |
| 4 | But even those who discard books forget that they exist in a real world and that the booksellers sell to real customers . |
| 5 | Encouraging authors to recognise that they live in a complex , multicultural society is one thing . |
| 6 | To set up such a tank containing only the larger species so that they live in a harmonious group requires careful thought . |
| 7 | Moreover , Stevenson 's theory , and the attitudinism sketched above , are at their most convincing in their treatment of value charged descriptive words , among which indeed even such words as ‘ good ’ can be counted when we are concerned with the meaning that they have in a homogeneous society . |