Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when interest rates fall , as they have done recently , they rarely show the same enthusiasm for cutting their rates . |
| 2 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 3 | Via the trachea and the oesophagus , they eventually reach the small intestine . |
| 4 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 5 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |
| 6 | Again , self-reference , albeit of a slightly different character , is essential to the analyses of valid consent and of promising which are acts changing the normative situation because they are undertaken in the belief that they so change the normative situation . |
| 7 | Erm they obviously have the right person teaching this management course if you know that 's one of the prime functions of a manager is to be unavailable at all times . |
| 8 | These proportions may be varied by regulations but they obviously have the overall effect of reducing the total indebtedness of local authorities . |
| 9 | Some authorities give the misleading impression that they alone have the absolute right to deliver certain services to the public . |
| 10 | The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds — they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to . |
| 11 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 12 | In fact when I keep my Topper at home over the winter , they just lift the whole thing up into the roof of the garage , keeps it right out of the way . |
| 13 | If people want to be misled , then follow Sinead-ism , but if they just want the simple truth without any religious crud , then accept Christ 's teaching . |
| 14 | Probably , like the fruit bat Rousettus , they just time the silent interval between each click and its echo . |
| 15 | They already hold the Southern fortress of Pax Tharkas ( I hope they change its name ) , and will soon crush the Elven folk between it and their devilish hordes . |
| 16 | British sources say they already have the potential power-unit and are half-convinced that the French may already be quite advanced in the aero-dynamics of the bodyshell . |
| 17 | He believes they will win in the new town areas where they already have the local council seats sewn up . |
| 18 | They already have the unenviable task of supervising some of the most dangerous prisoners in the country . |
| 19 | ‘ They desperately need the improved genetics of UK stock for these breeds which they can not get elsewhere , ’ said an MLC spokesman . |
| 20 | ‘ But if they still show the same thing we are all going to have to respond to it . |
| 21 | Amazingly , they still use the leech-battened blade jib from Rulor 1 as their No 4 . |
| 22 | Although the evangelicals in the DUP are clearly out of step with most Ulster Protestant voters , they still represent the ideological centre of unionism , of what it means to be a Protestant . |
| 23 | They still mock the slow way he speaks . |
| 24 | As children begin to participate in daily tasks , they gradually leave the mixed gender pack of children to join the company of young people who are of their own gender . |
| 25 | While they frequently acknowledge that language may be used to perform many communicative functions , they nonetheless make the general assumption that the most important function is the communication of information . |
| 26 | ‘ They always take the easy way out . ’ |
| 27 | In the darkness , the driver of Gould 's car kept repeating , ‘ They always get the last car in the convoy … they always get the last car in the convoy ’ , but Gould knew that he would not get hit . |
| 28 | In the darkness , the driver of Gould 's car kept repeating , ‘ They always get the last car in the convoy … they always get the last car in the convoy ’ , but Gould knew that he would not get hit . |
| 29 | you 've got to have the tourist there , it 's a I find , tourists , they always wear the wrong sort of clothes . |
| 30 | ‘ So again Kingfishers , when they catch a fish , always beat it until it is killed ; and in the Zoological Gardens they always beat the raw meat , with which they are sometimes fed , before devouring it ’ — Charles Darwin : The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals |