Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 2 | This usually means they have slow speed and concomitantly long exposure times , so it is necessary to ensure that the microscope is free from vibration , best done by working on a stone or concrete optical bench . |
| 3 | But the gas also causes them to grow extra arms and legs ( at a rate for the average adult male Vascar of one limb every two months , slightly longer for women and children ) . ’ |
| 4 | According to the decision , a printer 's or atelier assistant 's participation in any phase of the production of a work of art , no matter how minimal , automatically entitles them to reproduce that work . |
| 5 | Putting your name on their housing list also enables them to plan new buildings suitable for disabled people . |
| 6 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 7 | They are not professional judges , whose duty often requires them to deliver extempore findings of fact and give reasons of some complexity . |
| 8 | This is n't as intimidating as it sounds ; it simply means they do two jobs , depending on whether they are rotated or pushed . |