Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
| 2 | A lot of them seem to have the whole class |
| 3 | More selective compounds did emerge , and some of them continue to play an important role . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 7 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 8 | The Directors of AW announce that , in the absence of unforeseen circumstances , they intend to announce a final dividend of not less than 6.5p per share in respect of the financial year ending 31 December 1985 . |
| 9 | They intend to keep a tight grip on the demand for the bread and butter work boots , worn by thousands of postmen and bobbies on the beat . |
| 10 | Right wing soldiers in the Philippines have written to national newspapers saying they intend to launch a bloodless coup against President Corizon Aquino , and to replace her with a military junta . |
| 11 | They intend to build a socialist state , and the revolution which they have begun is irreversible . |
| 12 | It is strange , therefore , that in this Queen 's Speech the Government say that they intend to introduce a new Local Government Finance Bill to abolish what they did in 1987-88 . |
| 13 | In order to override that , they intend to introduce a statutory instrument . |
| 14 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They tend to receive an unsatisfactory education , harbour poor employment prospects and have few ways of creating a positive self-concept . |
| 17 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |
| 18 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed by the plethora of studies made of the phenomenon that : ( a ) they have been rapidly growing ; ( b ) they are most common in Europe ( see Table 7.4 ) ; ( c ) they are strongly related to the upper income bracket ( Bielckus et al , 1972 ) ; ( d ) they are concentrated in the more scenically attractive areas , and within these a contagious process can lead to further concentration ( Thissen , 1978 ) ; ( e ) they tend to form a further ripple of urbanization beyond the immediate commuter belt of big cities ( Boyer , 1980 ) ; and ( f ) they are also relatively and increasingly absolutely important in upland and mountainous areas ( Cribier , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Often the councillors are the same people who have gone to live in the pleasanter parts of rural England for peace and quiet , and they tend to take a dim view if local farmers apply for licences to run money-earning , but intrusive , leisure pursuits such as motor bike scrambling , model aeroplane clubs , clay pigeon shooting , go-carting and jet skiing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |
| 23 | Right , if we broaden the number of commodities , and recognize that er , farming is a multi-product enterprise , alright , farmers just do n't produce one produce , alright , they tend to produce a whole range of products , and therefore we 've got to accommodate these inter-relationships between prices of barley , prices of wheat , prices of oil seed rape , s and er , and so on and so forth , and there can be a nu a number of fairly complex inter-relationships er , there . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood . |
| 26 | In times of trouble , therefore , they tend to keep a bigger share of their portfolio at home and sell some foreign assets . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They tend to identify the common good with the interests , real or imagined , of their supporters . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Managers might not borrow as much as they should , on paper , if they want to retain a large reserve of borrowing power in case of problems . |