Example sentences of "they [vb base] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They develop a surprising ability to exchange information verbally and non verbally within the culture groups they are familiar with . |
| 2 | It 's only by ignoring them that they make a real effort to survive . |
| 3 | Housing experts say it 's an increasing problem and they want a new law to protect tenants . |
| 4 | ‘ All the independent analysts are now backing their words with money that they expect a gentle recovery to take root next year . ’ |
| 5 | But , however successful they are financially , they provide a splendid opportunity to give your work exposure and publicity and to take stock of your progress and development , as well as often providing various contacts and leads to follow up . |
| 6 | They cut a zig-zag edge to prevent fraying . |
| 7 | If they accept a contractual obligation to provide care , they may find that voluntary sector care increasingly substitutes for services which otherwise would have been provided by statutory agencies ; they will thus become mainstream rather than supplying supplemental , additional services . |
| 8 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 9 | Once they start making money , the Centre will then help them move into ‘ safe houses ’ , where they pay a single fee to cover rent and bills . |
| 10 | Women with more mechanical confidence will drive off , going sometimes for miles with tears pouring down their face , until they find a quiet lay-by to work through the final stages of their process . |
| 11 | Foxes often avoid the colony sites of breeding seabirds because if they attempt a swift invasion to capture nestlings they are liable to find themselves the object of severe and painful dive-bombing by the parent gulls and their companions . |
| 12 | Beaked whales generally have only a single pair of teeth protruding from their lower jaw , and instead of teeth they use a ribbed palate to get a firm grasp on their prey . |
| 13 | They keep a full length to make their opponent hit into the V and monitor his movements very closely . |
| 14 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 15 | Secondly they require a listed company to obtain the consent of its shareholders if any of its major subsidiaries makes an issue for cash of securities having an equity element which would materially dilute the percentage equity interest of the company and its shareholders in that subsidiary . |
| 16 | They regard a last-minute request to spend the weekend collating figures in Darlington as proof positive of their triumph against chauvinism . |
| 17 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 18 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 19 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 20 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 21 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 22 | Allowed to remain in the cool waters of the pool , they take a considerable time to reappear and fulfil their role , and often fall prey to browsing water snails . |
| 23 | The new owners of Oxford United admit that if it 's proved , then they have a moral obligation to pay the money back . |
| 24 | They have a moral obligation to build a path . |
| 25 | Most Scots believe they have a moral right to walk in wild places provided they are causing no harm and behave appropriately . |
| 26 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 28 | They have a long way to go . |
| 29 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 30 | And they have a second honeymoon to go with their second wedding — Amanda 's £1,500 Caribbean holiday prize for winning Slimming magazine 's competition . |