Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lands officers in the Road Service division objected because they claimed the one foot high flower beds could restrict a driver 's vision . |
| 2 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 3 | In the early stages of careers mobility is higher in Japan because part of the workforce is discharged before they reach the higher paid section of the profile to be replaced by younger and cheaper labour . |
| 4 | Great efforts have been made to restore the salmon runs on rivers in the American north-east , only for 70-90 per cent of the fish to be caught when they reach the rich feeding grounds off the west coast of Greenland . |
| 5 | Axis Fighters ( No 2 ) and Axis Bombers ( No 4 ) are particularly recommended as they show the expected types and such interesting aircraft as the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber , Heinkel He 177 bomber and Heinkel He 280 jet fighter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Leonora snatched her hand away , her eyes hunted as they scanned the large , square hall . |
| 8 | Sorry to those who send in sensible scores but people like Gaz Hutchinson should be shot as they spoil the whole thing . |
| 9 | Obviously we will be guided by our consultants but this er er view of is er er meeting with er er great success in the villages because obviously er we feel that if there is a public inquiry then we stand a better chance of British Coal sticking to the promises made when they had the original planning application and removing all waste by train to suitable sites and there 's one at Welbeck which is waiting for the material . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A draw at Fratton Park has increased Middlesbrough 's fixture pile-up , especially as the Cambridge United home match will be postponed if they reach the sixth round . |
| 12 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 13 | The presence of its members was normally tolerated because they supported the industrial action of the TUC , 1,200 of them being arrested during the dispute , and because some of its leading figures , such as Robin Page Arnot who did sterling work in organizing the councils of action in the North East , were active in the dispute . |
| 14 | They may fail to understand or to make themselves understood because they lack the social knowledge which enables them to make text into discourse in the language they are learning . |
| 15 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Here the two sentences are linked because they follow the grammatical pattern , definite article + proper noun + copula + complement , a link whose purely formal nature is revealed by the fact that it does not really survive translation into English , where the definite articles are not needed and an indefinite one is . |
| 19 | One might even extend the idea and talk of semantic parallelism where two sentences are linked because they mean the same thing . |
| 20 | The Greek authorities made no effort , indeed it is not known whether they had the legal authority , to allow the post mortem examination to take place before the body was released , despite the scarcity of important evidence in a case of this kind . |
| 21 | BALLYNAHINCH 'S pack dominated the opening exchanges and made their intentions known when they won the first scrum against the head . |
| 22 | The Conservatives want to see this link restored as they believe the present situation leads to extravagant and irresponsible local spending . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 26 | Another month passed while they continued the old routines before company orders revealed that they were to march south to the Marne and prepare for a counter-attack against General von Ludendorff . |
| 27 | His conclusions are original and thought-provoking , and deserve to be widely discussed for they challenge the major assumptions of traditional academic psychology . |
| 28 | The banner headlines screamed as they splashed the fuzzy , long lens pictures across the newspaper pages . |
| 29 | Her waterdetector — now lost — had twanged when they crossed the Spanish Fork city limits . |
| 30 | Her worst fears were confirmed when they reached the circular chamber . |