Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for them crusading necessitated no large leap of the imagination , no millenarian vision ; it was simply a challenging and a deserving extension of their everyday activities . |
| 2 | I urge them to continue to meet the necessary level of funding to maintain and update where necessary what has been achieved . |
| 3 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 4 | The libraries are well stocked with books on the law , many of them designed to help the lay person . |
| 5 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 6 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
| 7 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 8 | A lot of them seem to have the whole class |
| 9 | Only 16% planned to spend the lot , half of them to help buy a new home . |
| 10 | More selective compounds did emerge , and some of them continue to play an important role . |
| 11 | The two of them decide to buy a disused police station and turn it into a hotel . |
| 12 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 13 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 14 | They failed to reflect the political spectrum in its entirety and they tended to exclude or denigrate all those who strayed outside the centre of the political stage . |
| 15 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 16 | Although the Radburn layouts were safer than earlier designs , they failed to solve the triangular conflict between safety , environmental attractiveness and access . |
| 17 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 18 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 19 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 20 | One sympathized , but how they failed to recognize the extraordinary quality of the work will always be beyond me . |
| 21 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 22 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 23 | The Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela signed accords on energy , transport and communications and announced that they planned to create a free-trade zone between their countries by mid-1994 . |
| 24 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , of Durham county council , told members that they planned to end the unnecessary wait . |
| 26 | Guillaume ( 1984 : 120ff ) shows that all substantives , adjectives , adverbs and verbs are inherently predicative because they bring to mind a lexical notion which has to be said about something in order for the word to perform its function in discourse . |
| 27 | In 1946 , however , they agreed to establish a Scandinavian Committee for Legislative Cooperation . |
| 28 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 29 | They agreed to develop an economic integration plan proposed by five Central American presidents in the Antigua Declaration of June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 30 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |