Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 2 | Two other authorities , however , did indicate how they intend to reconcile the two systems . |
| 3 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 4 | Eliciting these principles from participants is complex , because they tend to give the prioritized principles . |
| 5 | In the Indian Ocean basin they sought to rally the non-aligned states against existing blocs being activated or the composition and sphere , of responsibility of these blocs being broadened . |
| 6 | The objectives of PAR were rather too ambitious , for essentially they sought to review the major policies of government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Councillors say grazing all year round is ruining the grass and they want to restrict the ancient rights of commoners . |
| 9 | They want to regain the natural environments . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They tried to reconcile the different strengths , ranges and parity properties of the weak and electromagnetic interactions , and to convert the two separate theories into a unified theory . |
| 14 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now they hope to contain the basic costs of providing coverage of most of the 10 sports to £1.4 million . |
| 17 | His eyes were squeezed tight in agony , and he and the other three men locked in the shafts grunted loudly with exertion as they strove to get the heavy carts rolling again . |
| 18 | This transformation came about as companies expanded to take advantage of mass production methods and associated economies of scale and integration , and also as they strove to limit the competitive forces to which they were subject . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Much of this is due to the face that , following the recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on pub ownership , many breweries are actually moving out of brewing itself and concentrating instead on pub management — an area where they believe they stand to make the greatest profits . |
| 21 | They began to institute the actual changes that were necessary : |
| 22 | As towns grew larger , they began to pollute the adjacent marshes and valley bottoms , which in turn developed ominous reputations for disease . |
| 23 | When they began to investigate the tiny houses , they found other bodies : men , women , children … . |
| 24 | They needed to repair the crumbling walls of their draughty homes , too . |
| 25 | After a day or so , they started to inspect the half-buried ¾″ plastic pipes I had provided as caves . |
| 26 | They started to question the high exposures they ran every day with the Midland in the clearing system . |
| 27 | They started to question the high exposures they ran every day with the Midland in the clearing system |
| 28 | It was perhaps with this in mind that they decided to spread the only rewards that the Government was likely to confer on the architects for all their work across as wide a field as was possible . |
| 29 | When the Cordorys had finished landscaping their garden , they decided to add the finishing touches and brighten it up by designing and making their own garden furniture |
| 30 | Do people pay to go to athletics meetings because it 's ‘ athletics ’ , or do they go to see the individual stars ? |