Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 3 | One of them even slept in the same room as her , but heard nothing . |
| 4 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 5 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution , but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927 . |
| 7 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 8 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 9 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 10 | And also we think they sensibly looked at the actual provision of sites in areas which have proved popular for employment and which do not compromise environmental objectives . |
| 11 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 12 | They apparently engaged in an intimate conversation , destined to emerge in the Sun newspaper last year , as the notorious Dianagate or Squidgy tapes . |
| 13 | They apparently engaged in an intimate conversation , destined to emerge in the Sun newspaper last year , as the notorious Dianagate or Squidgy tapes . |
| 14 | They just happened in the natural order of things . |
| 15 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 16 | They thus shared in the human condition to the extent that inferior men did , and needed no special comment . |
| 17 | They thus called for a managerial policy to facilitate promotion earlier in life , linked to flexible retirement wherever possible . |
| 18 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 19 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 20 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 21 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 22 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 23 | Existing charities would wonder whether they still fell within the legal definition . |
| 24 | Like most other molluscan groups they rapidly diversified in the Ordovician . |
| 25 | Although British cattle remained large for a while , they gradually reduced to an average height of 125cm at the withers by 2600 BC and by 300 BC , in the Iron Age , they were considerably smaller , averaging only 105cm . |
| 26 | As we saw earlier the successful candidates are those who can muster a quota of votes , the same for all of them however great the disparity in the number of votes they respectively received at the first count . |
| 27 | Danish defender Bjorn Kristensen hit the second-half equaliser that gave Kevin Keegan 's side a point they hardly deserved in the Anglo-Italian Cup they won when it was last staged 19 years ago . |
| 28 | The Far Eastern bank interviewed took an entirely different line ; they always worked with the large international firms , claiming that neither they nor candidates had any confidence in the smaller firms . |
| 29 | In Through the Looking Glass , you will remember , the Red Queen seized Alice by the hand and dragged her , faster and faster , on a frenzied run through the countryside , but no matter how fast they ran they always stayed in the same place . |
| 30 | The place which they once occupied on the constitutional stages has now been occupied by the organs of local government . |