Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The two of them decide to buy a disused police station and turn it into a hotel .
2 International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries .
3 Eliciting these principles from participants is complex , because they tend to give the prioritized principles .
4 First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government .
5 Councillors say grazing all year round is ruining the grass and they want to restrict the ancient rights of commoners .
6 They want to regain the natural environments .
7 are only ten percent so why are you try why are you saying they want to get the rich peasants when the , the poor peasants comprise seventy percent of the peasant population ?
8 Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private .
9 The possible techniques available to the authorities have one major feature in common : they involve manipulating the liquid assets of the banking system .
10 In short , theory can help practitioners to adopt a theoretical orientation to their task , whereby they seek to refer the particular techniques they use to more general principles , and , reciprocally , test out the validity of such principles against the observed actualities of classroom practice .
11 Now they hope to contain the basic costs of providing coverage of most of the 10 sports to £1.4 million .
12 No doubt they will find the experience a tad disorienting , but if they manage to avoid the marauding aurochs by day and the preying sabre-toothed tigers by night , they may find much in their new environment that is congenial .
13 Many clients may consider that a replica of the statutory audited accounts is not appropriate and seek to present data which they consider reflects the underlying results of the business adjusted for any ‘ non-recurring ’ items , eg one-off items or items which would not continue with a change of ownership .
14 NEWRY — Errol Lutton won his first international caps in Poland , and it is not only a boost to him but also to the club as they bid to match the big boys .
15 The agony that others seem to go through as they try to balance the contrasting facets of their lives leaves Sustad largely unaffected .
16 He says ; I do think they do forget the basic points and they go away with a lkot more knowledge and hopefully will save lives .
17 They are not the same as the actual numbers arranged by each operator , but they do indicate the broad magnitudes involved .
18 These year-by-year figures are thus not so useful for the analysis of large-scale trends as are the time-band figures in Table 3 previously discussed , but they do highlight the small-scale fluctuations in numbers of successful students in the subject field within individual departments in single years .
19 They amount to an inducement to encourage employees to accept overseas postings although it can be argued that they do offset the additional costs which may be incurred through unfamiliarity with customs , language and general way of life .
20 I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it .
21 Males go on growing well into their teens , when they start developing the facial adornments of the adult , but they are sexually mature at about ten .
22 Most importantly , they fail to acknowledge the genuine lessons of Marx 's work , as , for example , reflected in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ) , in which the significance of artefacts is seen to consist in their simultaneous operation in both the material and cognitive worlds , thereby exposing the artificiality of a dichotomous approach .
23 They exist to meet the human needs of the people who work in organisations .
24 Oxfam aid workers say they 've become the new targets in the war in Somalia .
25 They 've announced a new sports car to be built at Cowley and they launch a new model in April .
26 Well they know that , and if there 's a machine that 'll do the job , and if , when they 've pressed the right buttons they can look at the answer and say ‘ Yes , three point four 's about right ’ and so on , then that 's good enough for me .
27 It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages .
28 Well I mean I ca n't say enough for the people in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary , I mean they 've got a great burns unit there and I mean er er I think the plastic surgeons and what knot are about they must be some of the best in the world .
29 Yeah , they got , they 've got a massive Bugs Bunny sitting up over the sweet counter as you go in
30 and a cable tidy , that sounds quite good , these are half price things for ten days only There 's a remote control colour television for one thirty nine , ninety nine , save fifty pounds they 've got the dear tapes here look , erm six and a half hours video tapes , recommended price seven ninety nine can get for three ninety nine and there 's another one here three pack , twelve hours video tape for six ninety nine must end Saturday November the twenty ninth , oh perhaps I 'll buy you one of those , oh I have bought you a birthday present have n't I ?
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