Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 2 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 3 | MacDonald concludes with the view that non-traditional students are an advantage to higher education although they present it with a challenge . |
| 4 | The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem . |
| 5 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 6 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 7 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 8 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 9 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 10 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 11 | ‘ If they locate it outside a house , then they establish when it is there , and prepare an attack for that period . ’ |
| 12 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |
| 13 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 14 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 15 | That 's because they see it as a threat to their political authority as the only representative of the people . |
| 16 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 17 | They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future . |
| 18 | Pizzaland use green , because they want it as a more relaxed atmosphere , I mean there 's a lot in colour psychology , and I , I 'm not into it . |
| 19 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 20 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 21 | Well I mean I 've known this bloke , if somebody 's gon na do something like that whether they see it on a film or not , I still go out and do it , they make it . |
| 22 | But whether they do it on a Saturday I do n't know . |
| 23 | When they put it to an expert they received the bewildering reply : ‘ Bird 's eye figure is formed as a result of local suppressions in divisions of cambial tissue that cause indentation to develop . |
| 24 | Scholes provides a useful table , divided into three columns , showing how linguists and philosophers have agreed in making a tripartite division between signifier , signified , and reference , though they present it in a variety of terminologies . |
| 25 | They all think so , at any rate , though they turn it into a joke . |
| 26 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 27 | Communities in the coalfields will continue to fight opencast development against enormous odds as they see it as an environmentally destructive process which threatens their lives , homes and environment culture . |