Example sentences of "they [vb base] in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately on his return from Gosol , while Gertrude Stein was still in Italy , he repainted the face , using the conventions of Iberian sculpture , although , since he was anxious to achieve a likeness , they appear in a slightly modified form . |
| 2 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 3 | And my suspicion is they put in a selectively low bid on that particular job . |
| 4 | However , for the attitudinist , they function in a perfectly intelligible way in a discourse which explores relations of consistency and inconsistency between various possible and actual attitudes . |
| 5 | The purpose of this is usually to allow students the opportunity to use language they know in a less controlled situation . |
| 6 | Most women who arrive at the prison have been subjected to brutal torture and a prolonged stay in a secret prison , They arrive in a very weak condition from which many are unable to recover because of the inadequate food and health facilities , Two doctors visit the prison , but they are very negligent , in part , as one Prisoner explained , because their pay is always in arrears . |
| 7 | But they live in a physically impoverished environment which provides far fewer amenities than the average long-stay ward — the cost is often less than a third that of a hospital bed . |
| 8 | They live in a mainly white country , just as South African whites live in a mainly black one . |
| 9 | In mathematics and the sciences they fail in a rather different way : they simply are not demanding enough , especially in mathematics . |
| 10 | They come in a fairly wide range of standard sizes . |
| 11 | Without the ebb and flow of passengers , the arrival and departure of trains , they have in a very real sense ceased to be . |
| 12 | Alternatively , they view women psychologists as contributing to feminist psychology only when they work in a culturally woman-identified way . |