Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the third part of the series in which our road testers name the cars they rate as the best , the ultimate in luxury saloons comes to the fore . |
| 2 | Three bottles they drink between the two of them . |
| 3 | All necessary and desirable directions for disposing of the proceedings should be given at the pre-trial review , and the parties should as far as practicable ask for all the directions they need at the pre-trial review , giving prior notice to all interested parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 and 3 ) . |
| 4 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |
| 5 | This holds that through their actions in the market consumers oblige companies to produce the goods they require in the largest quantities at the lowest possible price . |
| 6 | These elite customers can — and do — make fabulous profits by buying goods from ‘ closed ’ shops and selling to ‘ commercial shops ’ or even directly to the shadow economy , where the non-privileged are forced to shop because they ca n't find the goods they want in the ordinary shops . |
| 7 | Our discoveries about their similarities and differences will lead us to examine other passages in Exodus and Numbers , and our desire to explain certain features of all these texts will then encourage us to look at the positions they occupy in the larger narrative , and so discuss their contexts in greater detail . |
| 8 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 9 | Though often difficult to distinguish in practice , in the simplest terms they relate to the three main spatial scales of economic and social organization . |
| 10 | In their broadest terms they refer to the whole issue of the supply of labour : do taxes affect the choice of occupation , the individual 's drive for promotion , the number of hours worked , the rate of productivity , labour mobility , the decision to retire from work , to emigrate , and so on ? |
| 11 | Three times they go through the same ritual ( 22:41–23:10 ; 23:13–24 ; 23:27–24–9 ) . |
| 12 | At other times they retreat into the blue distance . |
| 13 | ‘ Half the lies they tell about the Irish are n't true anyway , ’ as the old Irishman said . |
| 14 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 15 | The goals must be debated and discussed until their true implications are appreciated , then their application worked out in terms of the curriculum planning and development decisions they imply at the various stages of the educational process . |
| 16 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 17 | As suppliers base the price of the maintenance services they offer on the retail value of their kit — generally between 8% and 10% of costs — this trend will have a negative impact on suppliers ' profits . |
| 18 | Like free spirits they move to the off or leg side , improvising and manufacturing strokes . |
| 19 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 20 | They are often used in the paints they mix for the illuminated manuscripts . ’ |