Example sentences of "[vb pp] that they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strictly speaking , collocations represent syntagmatic and paradigmatic knowledge rather than semantic , but it is argued that they represent the implicit application of syntactic , semantic and pragmatic knowledge [ Sharman , 1990 ] , and for reasons of simplicity have been referred to as a source of semantic information . |
| 2 | Their size satisfies everybody — they are small — and the boards of trustees of all the museums have shown that they have the right ability and expertise , and are working well . |
| 3 | The benefit regulations make specific provision for those students , or in some cases their partners , to receive both income support and housing benefit provided that they meet the general qualifying conditions for those benefits . |
| 4 | Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland ( retaining their former rights as citizens of the United Kingdom ) may vote provided that they satisfy the other conditions . |
| 5 | Najibullah refused to identify the opposition leaders he had met , but it was believed that they included the leading National Islamic Front ( NIF ) moderate Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani and Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , the president of the Pakistan-based Afghan Interim Government ( AIG — see p. 36449 ) , as well as two men linked with ex-king Mohammad Zahir Shah , namely his close confidant and former Prime Minister Mohammad Yusuf and the ex-king 's son-in-law , Gen. Abdul Wali Khan . |
| 6 | The police have indicated that they believe the Tamil Tigers were responsible for the bomb , but people are sceptical : Mr Premadasa was the closest thing the Tigers had to a political friend . |
| 7 | For example , members of the cytochrome P450 family 3 are present in high concentration in small intestinal epithelium and it has been suggested that they protect the small intestine from carcinoma . |
| 8 | The three authors , all former Red Guards ( Li Yi Zhe was their collective pen name ) had been arrested for expressing their radical views in ‘ On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System ’ , although at first Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang had suggested that they supported the main ideas of the poster . |