Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Federal judge refused the plaintiffs ' request for a restraining order to open the late April pre-session meeting , saying they failed to demonstrate that real deliberations and decision making were taking place . |
| 2 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 3 | Sheep automatically seem to connect people with food , so that they become bothersome and , in some cases I saw , dangerous as they tried butting until harassed walkers gave in and handed over some of their food . |
| 4 | All respondents agreed that Personal Search would permeate every aspect of Religious Education in a Catholic school ; they further agreed that appropriate areas of study for the attainment targets in Personal Search were identifiable in current Religious Education programmes but would need to be retextured in terms of exposition and presentation . |
| 5 | If they 'd done so , if they 'd insisted that local authorities did provide the sites they are supposed to provide I believe there would now be sufficient pitches for all travellers and that they would n't be used for illegal parking erm at the level that there is at the moment . |
| 6 | They seem to think that teenage mothers ca n't look after children properly . |
| 7 | They are polytheistic in that they seem to believe that many gods exist , but monotheistic in that they command obedience to only one of these many gods . |
| 8 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 9 | They do show that primary qualities , as we experience them , are on an equal footing with secondary qualities , and are simply perceptions or ideas in the mind . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , they do occur and occasional assaults and other criminal acts are committed . |
| 11 | However they do acknowledge that many children can be more confident and more assertive than others , but that this is due to them receiving unconditional love . |
| 12 | They do say that essential oils will often work quicker than a tablet . |
| 13 | Landsbergis and the then Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov had led delegations at " talks about talks " in Moscow beginning on Oct. 2 , and at a further meeting on Oct. 10 they had concluded that formal negotiations might begin within weeks . |
| 14 | We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis . |
| 15 | Once they had established that all men were equal before God and that all men were theoretically capable of finding out , for themselves , what God demanded of them , they could not confine that principle to the religious sphere , no matter how much they may have wanted to . |
| 16 | A few of the ulema , highly placed in the government , encouraged him in his attacks on the gazi emirates , ulema " whose ideas and sentiments had remained attached to the ancient centres of Islam from which they had come as poor adventurers and to which they intended to return as wealthy ministers of the new master " . |
| 17 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 18 | They do what they have to do as whole entities , further integrated into the greater wholeness of soul , Mind and nature . |
| 19 | Now they have demonstrated that such systems can be modified and made more complex . |
| 20 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 21 | They have assumed that certain methods were not available to them . |
| 22 | They have asked that governing bodies should take this factor into account when selecting the coaches for the Regional Schools . |
| 23 | They have asked if Jewish women have ever really been included in the Jewish covenant . |
| 24 | They have warned that private developers could agree to destroy ‘ dangerous waste ’ from throughout Europe and claimed that the council could make more than £1m a year if it modernised the Duncrue plant . |
| 25 | They have warned that similar cases , involving pesticides as well as other toxic chemicals , are bound to come to light in the future , the legacy of inadequate waste-disposal standards in force for many years . |
| 26 | They have shown that mental processes can be correlated with specific neural changes . |
| 27 | They have shown that immature fruits possess only growth inhibitors — abscissic acid and its metabolites — whereas more mature Fruits contain significant amounts of growth agents called gibberellins . |
| 28 | A lot of young agents and bookers come from colleges where they have started as social secretaries and begun to book bands . |
| 29 | They tended to stress that these women were the hapless , passive victims of debauched aristocrats and manipulative medics , who were eager to be reformed given the necessary moral intervention from without . |
| 30 | Giving them work to do or organised games — so that they have no time to stand and stare … but we must help them to see , to look , to observe . |