Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the funboards people tend to classify their level by the type of board they sail rather than how well they sail it . |
| 2 | Because he is constantly handling , tasting and eating fungi the spores tend to work their way into the shaman 's skin , penetrating his bloodstream and saturating his body . |
| 3 | Moreover , once imbalances have been created , they tend to work their way through the higher age groups in situ . |
| 4 | Active during the day as well as at night , they appear to adjust their pace to the human by-products on which they depend , such as scraps from butchers shops and other handouts . |
| 5 | We want to know their opinion of the band so that if we sign the group , we hope everyone in the company will like the artist 's work and try to promote it as well as possible . |
| 6 | The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process . |
| 7 | The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server . |
| 8 | All creatures need sleep to replenish their energies for the next awakening . |
| 9 | On the civilian side there are other interests — such as the state research body ( CNRS ) , the telecommunications operator ( France Télécom ) , and the broadcast transmission company ( TDF ) — in addition to CNES — which want to protect their part of the space turf . |
| 10 | they cease to hold their employment with the Regional Council by reason of voluntary severance , or |
| 11 | they cease to hold their employment with the Regional Council in the interests of the efficient exercise of the Council 's functions . |
| 12 | It is usual to distinguish three reasons why people want to hold their assets in the form of money . |
| 13 | The type of CAD system that would be of use to such a skills-centred firm would depend not only on where they expect to interface their system into the existing design process , but also on the volume of products being produced , and the skills being provided , by the manufacturing facility . |
| 14 | Castle Drachenfels is designed to present a challenge to characters of all levels of experience , but inexperienced adventurers will have to be very careful indeed if they want to survive their visit to the Castle ! |
| 15 | ‘ The people here want to spend their money on the more expensive imported brands , ’ say Eugen , 24 , who works for the Soros Foundation in Timisoara . |
| 16 | The rapid rate of mechanization from the 1960s was particularly important in releasing male labour , and only a small proportion of farmers ' sons now expect to follow their fathers on the land . |
| 17 | Furthermore , afraid that competition from low-wage countries will undermine employment in Germany , they want to safeguard their position via the Social Charter and the minimum wage . |
| 18 | Jeanette and Simon Edwards , who lost two babies in three years , want to show their support for the new group by giving it a cash boost . |
| 19 | Most owners tend to feed their puppies on the kitchen floor , placing a dirt-box nearby for use at night , or during the day in an emergency . |
| 20 | Those banks that offer services to affiliated groups benefit from deposits taken from related companies , especially as group employees tend to deposit their savings with the bank most closely associated with their company . |
| 21 | This general principle finds its natural realization in the fascinating diversity of adaptations by which the males of different species seek to increase their share of the mating . |
| 22 | All seek to enhance their status at the cost of their rivals . |
| 23 | ‘ They couldna' get their tanks over the holes in the road . ’ |
| 24 | Conventionally lenders seek to limit their risk of the borrower defaulting by insisting that the borrower provides good security to support the loan . |
| 25 | By taking responsibility themselves for stock checking their titles with Dillons stores and reordering accordingly , publishers hope to boost their presence across the group . |
| 26 | Scientists and engineers tend to express their ideas in the form of equations because they need to know the precise values of quantities . |
| 27 | The objective is to start the budgeting process as late as possible in the preceding year while allowing budget-holders time to agree their budget before the start of the budget year . |
| 28 | However , from 1934 claims for poetry 's transcendence of science begin to find their way into the review sections ( for example , science is seen as limited to " the analytic faculty " , while poetry involves the " instinctive apprehension of the whole " ) . |
| 29 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 30 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |