Example sentences of "they [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 2 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 3 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 4 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 5 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 6 | Begonias are particular favourites and a gaggle of them gather on the paved area near the front door resplendent in pink , scarlet and yellow . |
| 7 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
| 8 | The relevance of these animal models is difficult to assess , as by using carcinogens such as 1,2 dimethylhydrazine ( DMH ) they concentrate on the final development of the tumour and not on the previous initiating stages of this long multistage process . |
| 9 | They concentrate on the present situation and the reaction of society and show little interest in the criminal 's background , although labelling theory does not argue that all that is involved in making someone a criminal is to call them one . |
| 10 | To be critical , the JD 's Japanese pickups are certainly less powerful than the Signature 's and , overall , they err on the empty-sounding side — a hint of extra mid-range would n't go amiss . |
| 11 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 12 | They land on the volcanic planet of Tigus only to discover it is not the Daleks but their old foe from 1066 , the Time Meddling Monk . |
| 13 | With respect to desire , they insist on the equal value of products of the hunt and products of the garden . |
| 14 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 15 | The signatures of Mark Rainsford and Arthur Guinness as they appear on the famous lease of 1759 . |
| 16 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 17 | First , through registration , the terms and conditions of the asset sale agreement and all related agreements can be inspected by a third party as they appear on the public register . |
| 18 | Difficulties occur whether they focus on the monetary base or on a wider range of liquid assets , and whether they impose statutory ratios or allow banks to determine their own prudent ratios . |
| 19 | They focus on the central parent-child bond , but at one generation removed and with a substantial difference in age between the two parties . |
| 20 | Yields on investment projects are notoriously difficult to estimate since they depend on the future demand for the firm 's products . |
| 21 | Dividend payments are not fixed , and they are much more difficult to estimate as they depend on the overall performance of the firm . |
| 22 | Research enables people to be aware of different ways of conceiving of the familiar world and , if they act on the new conception , to alter or extend their customary ideas and practices . |
| 23 | Yet , in heavy rock terms , they still retain an erudite edge and play with an urgency onstage that outstrips the uncharacteristically sluggish Babes In Toyland , when they played on the other side of town , two nights earlier . |
| 24 | They reside on the same device , or pseudo-device , as the Process Directory . |
| 25 | They lie on the eastern margin of the North Atlantic craton and form the North-west Foreland ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 26 | They seem to ignore the caves in their tank and they lie on the open gravel at night . |
| 27 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 28 | But these later pieces are of most use for the light they shed on the earlier development . |
| 29 | The corporation was sustaining appalling production losses and Finniston wrote to each of the trade unions suggesting that they meet on the neutral territory of a Heathrow hotel . |
| 30 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |