Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to provide , to provide people with the opportunity use the wipes if they require as a safety precaution . |
| 2 | It will take a matter of minutes once they get into a routine . |
| 3 | Enterprise Projects are currently running in departments throughout the University , developing the curriculum and teaching methods to assist students in acquiring skills so they graduate with a degree PLUS . |
| 4 | Other birds of prey may also arouse strong responses if they sit in a conspicuous position during the daylight hours . |
| 5 | At home we have an impressive library of books , carefully selected to give our children the widest possible view of life : black families , single fathers , working mothers , girls rescuing the western world single-handed and boys moping in corners because they long for a doll . |
| 6 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 7 | There may be as many as 150,000 individuals and they cluster in a vast ball between the roots of a tree or beneath an overhanging stone . |
| 8 | In this context Foucault argues that whereas economics , sociology , demography and other mathematicized ( statistical ) social studies are , - despite their limitations , " sciences " , in the sense envisaged , psycho-analysis , ethnology and linguistics should be regarded as counter-sciences since they lead to a dissolution of man considered as an objective entity . |
| 9 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 10 | When working with couples , the therapist 's role is to help the partners identify the problems that they face as a couple and then to encourage them to tackle those that appear soluble using the approach that has already been described . |
| 11 | This should allow you to spot any incipient faults before they turn into a Christmas day blackout , and will also ensure that everything is safe and in good condition . |
| 12 | Former Chief Secretaries have been known to make spirited claims for additional resources when they move to a departmental job . |
| 13 | It must therefore help learners when they listen to a foreign language if they can see as well as hear what is going on . |
| 14 | THE African National Congress and its leader , Nelson Mandela , are on public trial over their integrity and professed democratic principles as they struggle with a mass of allegations connecting Mrs Winnie Mandela to murders and other scandals . |
| 15 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |
| 16 | The three tenants evicted this afternoon are staying with friends while they search for a new home . |
| 17 | In the case of UA1 , for example , a gas-filled cylindrical detector surrounding the collision point senses the tracks of electrically-charged particles as they move through a magnetic field . |
| 18 | A cloud chamber is good for detecting low energy , electrically charged particles as they leave behind a trail of liquid drops as they pass through the mist in the chamber . |
| 19 | So far , we have carefully avoided any suggestion of calculation , and we can still stay away from arithmetic by using tables for gore heights as they apply to a range of ‘ chute diameters . |
| 20 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 21 | Remember , it 's more likely that youngsters may turn to drugs if they come from a home where the adults appear to be dependent on legal drugs like tobacco or alcohol . |
| 22 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 23 | They say girls go off horses when they get to a certain age . ’ |
| 24 | What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation . |
| 25 | Nero has ordered ten thousand hides as they get through a lot of shoe leather with all that clomping . |
| 26 | I look forward to seeing the amendments that will be tabled by my right hon. Friend for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and others when they look in a measured way at the Bill and seek to amend it to provide the support for the prison service that is so desperately needed . |
| 27 | Counting on us all , either to celebrate or drown our sorrows , are the big brewers as they embark on a results reporting season . |
| 28 | Whether this has any foundation in science or whether it reflects the old-fashioned ‘ punitive ’ approach , men up and down the country , known for their ten-pint capacity or love for fine wine , are receiving old-fashioned looks as they ask for a half-pint of lime juice or a tonic on its own . |
| 29 | Chelsea will decide whether to sign Szewczyk in the next 48 hours as they look for a replacement for injured Paul Elliott . |
| 30 | And I d I do n't think a lot of people actually know the rules when they get into a roundabout and . |