Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest that in future Councillors and concentrate on engaging their brains before they start putting pen to paper |
| 2 | Rather , they prefer to bring coal to Scunthorpe by rail from the new deep coal mines about 25 km to the west . |
| 3 | Other recent changes have generally restricted access to unemployment benefit ( Atkinson and Micklewright , 1989 ) and , in particular , they have denied benefit to women who had been eligible to at least some benefit in their own right . |
| 4 | The ca n't get onto the southbound carriageway … so they have to go north to Peartree before turning round and coming back . |
| 5 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 6 | Some religious groups have uplifted people 's ethical conduct , but at other times they have allowed brutality to others in the name of the religion . |
| 7 | It means they have improved access to information on what holidays sell best and what the customer wants . |
| 8 | The plight of the rural poor does not tend to loom large in the minds of businessmen , but even they need to pay attention to Thailand 's educational shortcomings . |
| 9 | Computers do not have the knowledge and experience of the average human reader , so for them to cope with the ambiguities shown above they need to have access to repositories of the different sorts of knowledge . |
| 10 | Analyses of a number of them have drawn attention to government constraints on investment through holding down prices [ Ashworth , 1986 ] , imposing unfavourable borrowing terms and , in some cases , outright refusal to sanction borrowing [ Pryke , 1981 ] . |