Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 2 | Do they look viable , or do they occupy run-down property ? |
| 3 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 4 | Do students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ? |
| 5 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 6 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 7 | They do not purport to explain fully why peripheral areas are in the condition in which they find themselves , nor do they regard one dimension ( in this case , the political ) as offering the complete explanation . |
| 8 | They are not places for quiet reflection , they are not clubrooms in which plots and schemes can be laid nor do they have useful collections of books , journals and other aids to professional thinking . |
| 9 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 10 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 11 | Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions . |
| 12 | While the Chewong are fully aware of the physiological differences between the sexes , these are not valued relative to each other , nor do they constitute any base for symbolic ordering ( see Howell 1983 , 1988 for further discussion on Chewong gender ) . |
| 13 | Nor do they include old favourites like industrial subsidies and incomes policies . |
| 14 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 15 | Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma . |
| 16 | They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit . |
| 17 | In general , women have not benefited much in the job market from capitalist industrialisation nor have they gained much influence in society outside the family through political channels . |
| 18 | Mr Nash added that the whole basis of ASB chairman David Tweedie 's approach was to stop people looking at special figures and make them examine various factors . |
| 19 | This belief has lasted to the present day ; and , in revenge , we should round up all the people who made these awful hippy records and make them read old Charlatans interviews until they beg for mercy and we hurl them into a well filled with angry weasels . |
| 20 | Allow 1.2m ( 4ft ) between the plants and expect them to reach full size in four years . |
| 21 | ‘ They seem pathetic , when you compare them to adult humans , and expect them to do human things — because obviously they ca n't . |
| 22 | Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them . |
| 23 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 24 | Beat all these together with a whisk , till all appeareth converted into froth , and let them stand all night . |
| 25 | I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it . |
| 26 | But we managed to track down your kindly vendor 's accountant , and persuade them to bring those accounts up to date . ’ |
| 27 | There are obvious reasons why not , but its absence contributes to a continuation of failed projects because authors make heroic assumptions and quantify them to produce fanciful targets . |
| 28 | Water houseplants regularly and ensure they receive enough humidity |
| 29 | Sometimes an Orc or Goblin will capture a few Snotlings and train them to perform entertaining tricks , or to perform simple tasks . |
| 30 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |