Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge them to continue to meet the necessary level of funding to maintain and update where necessary what has been achieved . |
| 2 | The libraries are well stocked with books on the law , many of them designed to help the lay person . |
| 3 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 4 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A lot of them seem to have the whole class |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 10 | Although the Radburn layouts were safer than earlier designs , they failed to solve the triangular conflict between safety , environmental attractiveness and access . |
| 11 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 12 | One sympathized , but how they failed to recognize the extraordinary quality of the work will always be beyond me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , of Durham county council , told members that they planned to end the unnecessary wait . |
| 15 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 18 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 19 | More importantly , they advocate removing the overwhelming power of the central state to dictate , and leaving states , counties and cities to decide matters for themselves . |
| 20 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 21 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |
| 22 | Speeches like Bob Giles ' are all very well but they tend to obliterate the cool thinking so necessary by those who hold positions of trust . |
| 23 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |
| 24 | They tend to assert the overwhelming desire for cognitive order , and thus offer an unrealistically cohesive model of cognition itself which ignores the problems of ideology and framing . |
| 25 | They tend to identify the common good with the interests , real or imagined , of their supporters . |
| 26 | One can imagine someone in a room looking at a beautiful painting , drinking in the details and the way in which they combine to constitute the lovely whole , and there being nothing beyond this observer and the object of his contemplation . |
| 27 | They stopped providing the subsidized food which had made it possible to survive . |
| 28 | Whenever they stopped talking the muffled sound of the machinery in the workshop seemed to become louder . |
| 29 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 30 | They want to move the whole competition — lock , stock and barrel — out of the province entirely and turn in into the Jersey Milk Cup . |