Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to ICL , notebooks have two distinct uses : first , they are a user 's only or main machine — so , it must be possible to plug them into a local network , and they must have the functionality of a standard personal computer . |
| 2 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 3 | Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum . |
| 4 | They are old enough to remember the early days of independence , when the departing British pushed them towards a pan-Caribbean federation of English-speakers ; but the people of Jamaica , the largest potential member ( with 2.5m people now ) , killed that by voting against it in a referendum . |
| 5 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |
| 6 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |
| 7 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 8 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 9 | Especially unusual to find them in a Tyrian , because as a rule Tyrians only care about making money . |
| 10 | Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month . |
| 11 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 12 | Are you supposed to press them at the same time ? |
| 13 | I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff . |
| 14 | It is prudent to flag them with a red streamer . |
| 15 | As the comments run into hundreds of pages in total , it was not feasible to append them as a single annex to this report . |
| 16 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 17 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 18 | Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners . |
| 19 | As rock characteristics can vary considerably over very short intervals , it is useful to be able to evaluate them on a continuous basis from log data . |
| 20 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
| 21 | Experiments of the most Draconian nature wold be necessary to untangle these possibilities , says Altman , ‘ and you would n't be able to do them in a natural setting like Amboseli ’ . |
| 22 | We are unable to hear the ultrasonic radar signals of bats , let alone interpret them with the intelligible rapidity which they can . |
| 23 | Timing is also of the essence — flowers can be sent to you through the post as soon as the special event is over , but the best option is to be able to press them on the very day that they are used . |
| 24 | And on the occasions when there was an epidemic of sheep scab we all went to the sheep dipping tub kept by the Fawcetts , and later the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt , to double dip them in a special drench . |
| 25 | You will then be able to soak them in the medicated solution for maximum effectiveness . |
| 26 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 27 | The female when on heat was obviously erotically inclined herself , and could soon arouse the male , but , once aroused , the sexual drive of both animals seemed unable to direct them towards the exact behaviour demanded by the situation . |
| 28 | Any small hope held out to her by circumstances , or by her lover , is as a wisp which she can spin and twist into a thread , and if she gathers enough of these her feelings tell her that she will be able to bind them into a strong rope . |
| 29 | If the imagination-free hacks at Today need any more decent ideas , I 'd be happy to supply them with a few more of our back numbers at a very reasonable rate . |
| 30 | Are we gon na be able to get them into the right place ? |