Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of henna-headed teenage fans are sitting with their backs to the outside wall of the club , and they remain cool when the coach arrives , politely asking everyone to sign the singles they 've brought along . |
| 2 | An important feature of A. caninum infection is that , in susceptible bitches , a proportion of the L3 which reach the lungs migrate to the skeletal muscles where they remain dormant until the bitch is pregnant . |
| 3 | I wonder if they might have anything do n't know whether they sell other than the time |
| 4 | THE BRITISH wives of American servicemen stationed in the United Kingdom must pay the poll tax even though they receive little or no benefit from public services , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 5 | A team is a small group ( 6 to 8 people is a typical size ) who co-operate together in such a way that they accomplish more than the sum total of the individuals . |
| 6 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 7 | ‘ They besieged the record company to get it re-released and they feel proud that the public has responded by buying it in droves . ’ |
| 8 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 9 | Eventually they become saturated and a clean-down is the only answer . |
| 10 | Soon they become aware that the train is engaged on a steady climb , this section being popularly known as the Long Drag ; beyond Horton in Ribblesdale Station interest tends to flag a little as the outlook from the windows becomes more austere on the pull up to Ribblehead . |
| 11 | They do little or no teaching , so they are always available . |
| 12 | They do this because the Milk Marketing Board , set up by the government , collects the milk from farms , wherever they are , and pays a fixed price for it . |
| 13 | They require little or no pruning or other attention , being remarkably resistant to disease , and are among the hardiest of all roses , thriving in conditions that would frighten the life out of most others . |
| 14 | You give you bank a written instruction to pay the monthly payments as they fall due and the City Council informs both you and your bank of the amount to be paid . |
| 15 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 16 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |
| 17 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 18 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 19 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 20 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 21 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |
| 22 | Under the 1953 Act , it is an offence to carry a weapon in a public place unless you have permission or a good reason , and the onus is on the carrier to show that they have one or the other . |