Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They dance to an exciting variety of music by composers such as Boyce , Shostakovich , Britten and Philip Glass . |
| 2 | * As a way of finding the best structure for your essay , write out all the main points you think you need to make , and rearrange them until they develop as an overall argument ( see pp. 59 – 61 ) . |
| 3 | Now the police authorities a and the local authorities and the magistrates may be thought to be indulging in special preening , but I do assure Your Lordships that they really are not alone in expressing their anxieties er about the er er er this bill and what it proposes , for example , if I may , I would like to refer to a letter which I received from Justice , chaired by my Noble Friend Lord Alexander of and with his Vice-chairman er er Lord and er they say as an all-party human rights organisation , Justice considers that the composition of police authorities is an important constitutional issue effecting the independence of policing . |
| 4 | ‘ I could run a club like this , ’ they say in an expansive sort of way , leaning back as they enunciate every word ever so carefully . |
| 5 | They map on an exposed loop between residues 156 and 162 in the C-terminal part of the CRP protein . |
| 6 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |
| 7 | They depend on an appropriate display of responsible behaviour , and the circumstances in which they are to be given must be made explicit . |
| 8 | If the failure of the ‘ ideological forms ’ lies in the operation of an idealist epistemology , the specific instances of ideological forms ( religion , aesthetics , the law , politics , philosophy ) that Marx mentions , seem doomed only to the extent that they depend on an idealist epistemology . |
| 9 | Objectives are important because they act as an essential backcloth to behaviour itself . |
| 10 | Erm and they they put in an awful lot of work in in setting up the Festival . |
| 11 | They break into an anarchic chorus of instructions about coveting , swearing and murder , and then subside . |
| 12 | In their simplest form , they consist of an ion-leachable glass that undergoes a setting reaction with aqueous solutions of polymers or copolymers of acrylic acid ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 13 | On the one side , they are all brave and honourable ; if the epic has a happy ending they surmount every obstacle ; if there is a tragic end , they succumb in an unequal fight . |
| 14 | They exhibit to an exaggerated degree that intolerance and sense of unease we all show when faced with information or experience which we can not readily assimilate and ‘ make sense of ’ ( as we say ) by fitting it into our existing knowledge and categories . |
| 15 | Rather , they present as an individual property , following from the impact of impairment on the ‘ self ’ , what are in fact learnt behaviours . |
| 16 | In principle , however , the public law nature of the SROs ' rules and the fact that they operate in an integrated way with the SIB 's rules should mean that a court is able to take the same approach to the interpretation of both the SROs ' and the SIB 's rules . |
| 17 | So far in this chapter we have been concerned with the determinants and consequences of collective bargaining structures as they appertain on an inter-country basis at national level . |
| 18 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | They rely on an enormous amount of research capital ; that is , the expertise and knowledge built up by research workers or teams and on the body of knowledge generated by others who have undertaken previous studies . |
| 20 | He was an honest man : differences between the two quartos are very real , and they point to an obvious conclusion — that The Fairy Queen first staged in 1692 was significantly altered for revival in 1693 . |
| 21 | But the real test will be how they fare in an economic recession |
| 22 | What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece . |
| 23 | They wander in an administrative mist , abandoned by the neurologists and orthopaedic surgeons who first treated them , ignored by occupational therapists and social workers to whom brain disorder is juju territory . |
| 24 | They belong to an old elite : the landowners and merchants whose wealth was confiscated by the former regime , which abolished all forms of private ownership . |
| 25 | The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market . |
| 26 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
| 27 | They clash in an important way with the Christian doctrine of creation which provides both a purpose to human activity and a cultural mandate defining the terms of man 's trusteeship in this world . |
| 28 | They live in an elective dictatorship in which the government of the day has a degree of absolute power that would be envied by rulers who are , on the surface , far more totalitarian . |
| 29 | They start with an instructive morning chat so you know what 's going on . |
| 30 | I consider prepositions in prepositional phrases to be non-deictic , as they relate to an internal system in the way that , say , aspect relates to tense . |