Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful outcome means that they intend to repeat it next year . |
| 2 | They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the application programming interface in 90 days . |
| 3 | They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the API in 90 days . |
| 4 | They tend to privilege their own language , to make claims for it which derive from the requirements which brought it into being in the first place . |
| 5 | Bringing the big boys in under a UN flag is exposing a clash of styles ; they tend to have their own way of doing things and there is pressure on the organisation to conform . |
| 6 | They want to arrange their own lunches , decide for themselves how to spend some days . |
| 7 | They want to stop our political levy and only half of the Tory funds is answerable for , from where they get it . |
| 8 | They want to see their own chaps , keen as mustard , potting Jerries ( or Tommies ) whenever the opportunity arises . |
| 9 | To determine this they want to do their own biopsy , and will require a sizeable lymph node to go at . |
| 10 | They want to take our Green Belt away , |
| 11 | Fed up with living in ‘ little boxes all the same ’ , they want to stamp their own personality on an older building and have the chance to lovingly shape a new home exactly as they want . |
| 12 | Others believe that the countries of the southern hemisphere need to learn from the West 's mistakes in eating a diet high in fat , sugar and salt if they want to avoid our high incidence of heart disease and cancer . |
| 13 | Guisborough , in fourth place , slipped up in midweek , and can not afford another lapse if they want to maintain their outside title chances . |
| 14 | They want to trace her natural parents , Paul and Susan Gort .. |
| 15 | ‘ If people are trying to reduce weight gain , especially because obesity affects blood fats and they want to protect their coronary arteries , then reducing sugar would be a good idea , ’ he said . |
| 16 | America 's top two golfers — they have won $2.5m between them on the US circuit this season — have been elected favourites for the 32-nation event , and they want to avenge their recent defeat in the Dunhill Cup , when Love , Couples and Tom Kite lost to England in the semi-finals . |
| 17 | They want to know what spoken English is like |
| 18 | A number of Arab countries have condemned the UN resolution , which they say displays its double standards in dealing with Arab countries and Israel . |
| 19 | According to economic theory , with some reservations that will be examined shortly , companies contribute to the maximisation of society 's total wealth where they seek to maximise their own profits . |
| 20 | In the process they seem to lose their emotional resonance , no longer expressing the reality that practitioners originally tried to capture . |
| 21 | Normally developing children often seem to be inexhaustible sources of spoken language ; they seem to relish their developing abilities and to use them on every possible occasion . |
| 22 | Is it because they seem to package their major sporting events in a more professional manner ? |
| 23 | Yet the evidence from their earliest word uses , their requests for the names of things , and their repairs to their own utterances , all indicate that they opt for Conventionality as they begin to use their first language . |
| 24 | As they begin to remember their younger life and what their job was or the day they went on holiday to Margate , the more they may begin to make links with things happening today . |
| 25 | However , when they begin to suggest what these factors might be , it emerges that they have markedly different conceptions of what will provide an adequate explanation . |
| 26 | Notoriously young children learn very quickly how to recite numbers in the right order without having any clear notion of their " cardinal " properties , and it is only gradually that they begin to associate their respective positions in the number series with a relation of magnitude . |
| 27 | But they like to keep their political preferences to themselves . |
| 28 | Reflective comments provide a mirror of your children 's personality ; children learn about their emotional likeness ( as they get to know their physical likeness ) by having their feelings reflected back to them . |
| 29 | You think you have Afghan Whigs figured out as more hairy , never-do-well Sub Pop screwfaces with a nice line in ( yawn ) grunge and they proceed to stuff your preconceived notions back in your face . |
| 30 | Here it has been the archivists who have had to confront the difficulties posed by record retention as they attempt to fulfil their statutory duties . |