Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the speed that people sip/guzzle beer or other intoxicating liquor and therefore the speed they get pissed directly proportional to their desire/need to press on in their resolving of life 's problems ? — which could mean a nice early death ! |
| 2 | They are able to run quickly and confidently across that 6-foot ( 1.8-metre ) ride and because of their speed they become entangled . |
| 3 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 4 | The glance they exchanged acknowledged as much . |
| 5 | When you first trot these out , you may find that to your ears they sound artificial and contrived . |
| 6 | Seen end on , their sharp , rocky summits point like arrows to the sky , while from the side they become narrow , crenellated ridges offering pleasant ways up to the tops , especially in winter . |
| 7 | Then side by side they lay still , heads pillowed on the pile of dressing-up clothes , bodies slack . |
| 8 | This meant that while from our side they appeared cautious and reactionary , for the Board they provided a cheerful dawn chorus to which it could always confidently wake up . |
| 9 | The gold variegated holly , Ilex x altaclarensis ‘ Golden King ’ for example , and the strongly coloured Cornus florida ‘ Rainbow ’ are both magnificent on their own , but side by side they look awful . |
| 10 | For Fernando Botero they are omnipotent and corpulent ; for Bernhard Heisig they are wild and aggressive , while for Rolf Szymanski they represent spiritual energy . |
| 11 | When monks from France and Flanders were settled in the Border abbeys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they introduced new skills , and also devoted themselves to the expansion of sheep rearing to provide the necessary basic material . |
| 12 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 13 | In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate 's concerns . |
| 14 | This type of notice filing is intended to be simple , inexpensive and expeditious and to put persons on notice that a charge has been registered so that they can take whatever steps they consider appropriate to protect their interests . |
| 15 | The fact that he had been unaware that there was a problem at all , and that people had grievances they felt unable to air to him privately , was , perhaps , a measure of him losing touch since moving office to the houseboat . |
| 16 | As a result they show subtle differences , some being positioned on the upper fin , some on the rear of the main trunk and some on the tail-stem . |
| 17 | As a result they have considerable doubts about the validity of the case for the control of mergers . |
| 18 | As a result they pay sky-high premiums . |
| 19 | In future they look certain to have to abide by the electronic device which can record false starts . |
| 20 | The counsel told the court : ‘ In Patel 's car they had loud music on and there was a certain amount of laughing going on . |
| 21 | In this guise they embody fundamental truths which are permanent throughout time and space . |
| 22 | Friday they had fried egg |
| 23 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 24 | His competitors , in turn , once they become aware of what they are competing against , are forced to sweeten still further the opportunities they make available to the market ; and so on . |
| 25 | They did not turn up for sessions they considered boring and did not meet their needs . |
| 26 | ESSAY 7 — ; ‘ Their motives for social reform were far from benevolent , but in practice they created embryonic welfare states . ’ |
| 27 | Largely because of their native climate and sparse grazing , they are small animals standing perhaps 100–110cm at the withers on the islands and weighing 300–350kg , but in improved mainland environments they reach 116–122cm and can weigh 50 per cent more than the island cattle . |
| 28 | Then , around 1700 BC , the Minoans developed from the hieroglyphic script a new syllabic form , today called Linear A. When the Mycenaeans invaded Crete they adapted Linear A to produce a revised form , Linear B. Both scripts have been preserved on clay tablets , most of which are inventories ; however , only a few hundred examples of Linear A exist , whereas there are some thousands of surviving tablets bearing Linear B. |
| 29 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 30 | Although the PAC and Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) refused to sign the accord they gave separate undertakings to work for peace . |