Example sentences of "they [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men are less fortunate , since they not only have to cope with the cultural fear of showing emotion , but also with the dismissive and often lewd attitudes to women with which they are surrounded . |
| 2 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |
| 3 | Any chance of the former had been negated by Britain 's failure to topple Nasser at Suez ; and the latter was unlikely for some years because the aircraft did not , as yet , exist ; and the RAF had no real enthusiasm for providing the necessary money to buy them out of Air votes , which they quite naturally wanted to use for combat and not transport aircraft . |
| 4 | It is comparable with the now discredited phonetic method of teaching children to read where they no sooner learned to read by this method than they had to scrap all they had learned and then start all over again and learn to read properly . |
| 5 | ‘ I need to know who your customers are , what orders they have placed in the past and why they no longer wish to trade with you . |
| 6 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 7 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 8 | Thanks to American backing , they no longer had to worry about the small size of the British market , the limitations of the native cinematic culture or their responsibility to show Britain on the screen . |
| 9 | They no longer want to go to school . |
| 10 | When they know how the pen will respond they no longer need to think about it , and will eventually be unaware of skilful minor corrective movements . |
| 11 | We keep on reading about these , but they never quite seem to get onto the market . |
| 12 | Letting Swindon , Stoke and Honved score goals past them quite easily seems to point at a suspect defence . |