Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] they [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver liked things to be finished and shiny and to look as if they cost a lot . |
| 2 | It 's as if they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 3 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 4 | This is rather misleading because they are neither all that grand , nor fully unified , nor complete theories in that they have a number of undetermined renormalization parameters such as coupling constants and masses . |
| 5 | The dictionaries and reference works devoted to surnames are useful to the local historian in that they provide a framework of knowledge on which more specific researches may be built . |
| 6 | But classroom practice is not put at the service of the principles , designed to test them out ; conversely , the principles serve classroom practices in that they provide a way in which they may be more clearly understood and more systematically carried out . |
| 7 | It 's the same here , but they do all get listened to and they get a reply . |
| 8 | They do all get listened to and they get a reply . |
| 9 | In a series of articles published under the title Problems in General Linguistics , Benveniste demonstrates with particular reference to the temporal and pronominal systems of the French language that linguistic items can be distinguished according to whether they include a reference to the moment or position of the utterance of a statement ( énonciation ) . |
| 10 | about whether they want a pupil comment in . |
| 11 | We 're not going to have people are not going to have the choice about whether they buy a house or rent privately or wish to be on the council housing list , we 're going to force them off . |
| 12 | About when they get a load of in , |
| 13 | Make sure you know exactly the audience for your advertisement and , if possible , what they are looking for when they buy a product like that of your clients . |