Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His new Food and Beverage Manager is in favour , but the idea was resisted by the original departmental heads , who made it clear that they preferred the old system . |
| 2 | If indeed they were prehistoric , it is doubtful that they crossed the open downland after the later Bronze Age . |
| 3 | Apart from anything else she was unemployed and they needed the two thousand pounds prize money . |
| 4 | Some of the recently introduced products , Itek 's PTW for example , do include full WYSIWYG and are menu rather than command driven but they sacrifice the raw power of products like TeX ( pronounced tech ) or JustText . |
| 5 | But they mean something entirely different but they say the same words . |
| 6 | They must be treated as adequate because they reflect the statutory provisions in regard to appeals by persons upon who intervention notices are served by S.I.B . |
| 7 | The latter are especially interesting since they constitute the outer ring of the EEC and also because they have considerably higher standards of living than do the EEC Member States . |
| 8 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 9 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 10 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 11 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 12 | There is documentary evidence that considerable numbers of Garonnais cattle went to England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it is possible that they influenced the big , yellow-red South Devon . |
| 13 | Conservative politicians were over-confident that they knew the right policies , and to a large extent they were contemptuous towards the professional teacher . |
| 14 | In Merkur Island Shipping Corporation v. Laughton the defendants were in fact given a copy of the charter of the trapped vessel before the application for an injunction , but the House of Lords held that they had the requisite knowledge independently of this . |
| 15 | These small streams are often fast flowing until they reach the lower elevations of the Low Weald . |
| 16 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 17 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 18 | Russianization was pointless while they kept the lower orders in their place and went on providing generals for the Russian army . |
| 19 | Corbett urged him to keep quiet and was more than relieved when they entered the narrow , winding , rutted streets of Leith and made their way to the small market square . |
| 20 | And it surely is som something that the people of Wiltshire can be glad that they made the right decisions in May , that they have n't got that administration , |
| 21 | The Pentagon must be glad that they added the faint possibility that there was one chance in ten thousand that security might be breached . |
| 22 | Then the Bonn government leaned on Germany 's aerospace industry chiefs so hard that they scrapped the whole event . |
| 23 | She said a majority of women had voted Tory since they got the right to vote , but a profound shift was now taking place . |
| 24 | Paula was tense as they approached the German frontier post beyond Echternach in Luxembourg . |
| 25 | There was some light left as they motored the few miles to The Towers . |
| 26 | Most of the better bureau do keep libraries of older versions of the programs and will make sure that they use the correct one — but they can only do this if you ask . |
| 27 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 28 | ‘ We have to be sure that they have the right product and that they will be able to sell it . |
| 29 | The only way to do that is to make sure that they have the fresh air of competitive tendering . |
| 30 | Brooding busts by Frink are so powerful that they dominate the largest room in the exhibition . |