Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We keep asking questions about the Opposition 's investment plans : how much they intend to give to the British Technology Group , regional development agencies and investment trusts . |
| 2 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 3 | The Tory counter-attack will be to remind London voters that , since they tend to earn above the national average , more of them will suffer from higher Labour taxes . |
| 4 | They tend to fall within a broad category of exploitation , a genre characterised by a simplistic ethos of violent action . |
| 5 | They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock , to keep down inventory levels . |
| 6 | The inability , so far , to properly confront issues of race is largely due to the huge number of white volunteers who simply find it too painful to accept that , because of their culture and upbringing , they tend to behave in a racist manner . |
| 7 | They tend to advertise in the appropriate specialist hobbies press and through the medium of direct mail . |
| 8 | Therefore , they tend to look for a certain ‘ type ’ . |
| 9 | Due to their crusading streak , newspapers have been valuable in discussing the achievements of the mentally handicapped , but again they tend to focus on the sensational . |
| 10 | ‘ They tend to head for the middle-of-the-road establishments — still quite cheap but a cut above the red-flock wallpaper places . ’ |
| 11 | They arc shown as a dotted arrow . |
| 12 | The Greenfield report recommends that prescription forms should contain a box , which doctors should tick if they want to insist on the branded drug , rather than an approved substitute . |
| 13 | Both sides need the points if they want to finish in the top two . ’ |
| 14 | MEMBERS of the management team at Aberdeen Central Branch have been told to eat less and exercise more if they want to live to a ripe old age ! |
| 15 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 16 | ‘ If they want to go through the correct procedure and ask for a transfer , then so be it . ’ |
| 17 | Another reason may be , again , that they have very little precise notion of what they want to get from a particular text . |
| 18 | ‘ They knock on my door and say they want to pull on a black and white shirt , but when I ask them to prove it some ca n't , ’ said Keegan . |
| 19 | But as you may discover at the end of your course you 'll have a questionnaire to say how found it , how it 's gone on and of course in the past people have filled in questionnaires saying what they want to know about the legal aspect is all about wills . |
| 20 | There have been numerous clashes between land-owners and new-age travllers in the county — last October two farmers lost 10 sheep in several attacks by dogs which they say came from a nearby travellers encampment . |
| 21 | They hope to attract from a wide area . |
| 22 | In this sense the privileges and goods that pupils can ‘ purchase ’ with the points they earn provide for an effective degree of control . |
| 23 | They spend most of their day lying in the shade … it 's always between 75 and 85 degrees and they enjoy coming into the open bar to meet guests . |
| 24 | Their similarity to the preceding cases is that they seem to fall within an accepted canon of traditional wordings ( one , incidentally , which as Ulpian shows is also subject to extension by analogy ) . |
| 25 | It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels . |
| 26 | They seem to rise in a brief but sometimes piercing crescendo from the area of the stairwell at Cumnor Place . |
| 27 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 28 | They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible . |
| 29 | There is something mysteriously appealing about The Hair And Skin Trading Company 's music — the space that they manage to create amidst the diseased disorder of guitars and samples . |
| 30 | Colin Shawyer of the Hawk and Owl Trust will explain how to dissect owl pellets to find out what barn owls eat — and how they manage to survive in the modern world . |