Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party 's policy review paper says Muslims and other minority religious Home groups should be entitled to voluntary-aided schools provided they follow the national curriculum . |
| 2 | These words — nouns , verbs , adjectives and some adverbs — are also referred to as content words because they express the main meaning in an utterance . |
| 3 | ‘ Normally they do n't bother running through that in words because they open the sealed packages in front of the person . |
| 4 | No I do I think that 's wise to teach them in schools because they learn the right way . |
| 5 | She really wanted them to burn tonight , to feel the heat between their legs as they watched the glowing monitors . |
| 6 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |
| 7 | He protected her like a lover , shielding her from curious eyes as they climbed the steep steps of the Rialto bridge with its shops on either side . |
| 8 | We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . |
| 9 | It really in fact they do that more I think in estates than they do the other |
| 10 | Specialists believe the discovery could eventually allow the use of drugs to correct the fault and reduce the risks for women who by the age of 50 have a 60 per cent chance of developing one of those cancers if they carry the defective gene . |
| 11 | I think it should be erm local councils should be able to bring their requirements from allocated sites provided they make the appropriate er provide an appropriate choice of location and size of sites erm up to the erm levels proposed in the county . |
| 12 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 13 | However , shared space approaches , as the Dutch have discovered , are very costly to apply to existing residential areas because they require the existing street surface to be almost entirely rebuilt . |
| 14 | ( d ) Standing orders Beyond the requirement that the Houses shall ‘ pass ’ Bills before they receive the Royal Assent , the common law has little to say about the Houses of Parliament . |
| 15 | She blinked as they emerged into blinding brightness and searing heat , and paused to fumble for her sunglasses before they descended the broad flight of steps that led down to the canal . |
| 16 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 17 | Moshe Aumann concluded from original British figures that in 1948 Jews owned 8.6 per cent of the land and Arabs 20.2 per cent ; of which , he claimed , 16.9 per cent was abandoned by Arabs when they thought the neighbouring Arab armies were going to destroy Israel . |
| 18 | Austria , Czechoslovakia or Italy seem to be Scotland 's most likely opponents if they make the second phase . |
| 19 | They must draw attention to national needs if they believe the educational system is not adequately meeting them . |
| 20 | I asked many Goans if they disliked the freakish visitors , and their verdicts were almost unanimous . |
| 21 | In 1990 they considerably more than doubled and further increases are planned for 1991 and subsequent years until they approach the full cost of providing courses . |
| 22 | Dr James Walker , assistant director of the laboratory , estimates that the four computers will pay for themselves in two years because they reduce the high cost of buying , housing and feeding experimental animals . |
| 23 | The rural charge-payers now pay more than the urban charge-payers since they pay the same basic charge plus the charge for Parish Council services , yet the provision of services by the Borough favours the urban areas . |
| 24 | To achieve complete combustion , in most cases , high temperatures in the order of 600–900°C , for not less than 0.3 seconds are required , in order to ignite and burn the odorous gases before they form the fine carbon of black smoke which is far more difficult to burn . |
| 25 | The disciples were told , before , ten days before they received the Holy Spirit that they were to be witnesses unto him . |
| 26 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 27 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 28 | By contrast , Aung San and Thakin Nu were unknown less than ten years before they compelled the British to concede their demands . |
| 29 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 30 | If England 's trip comes off it would follow 10 years after they played the last official Test against the Springboks at Johannesburg and would be the perfect dress-rehearsal if South Africa 's strong bid to stage the 1995 World Cup succeeds . |