Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 2 | On their heads they wore a steel bonnet , either a ‘ salade ’ like a rimless upturned bowl , a peaked version known as a burgonet , or a morion with curved brim and raised centrepiece like a cockscomb . |
| 3 | On T1 weighted images tumours have a low signal intensity , appearing dark ; on T2 weighted images they have a higher signal and look bright . |
| 4 | But at the end of the day they are n't in that league cos most thieves are opportunists they seize a common opportunity that is presented to them by or it could be they 've actually just watched her go out and more of a chance . |
| 5 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 6 | Correlations calculated this way are generally smaller than those that would have been obtained by correlating the averages but because they do not average out the variance from different subjects they provide a more realistic assessment of the size of an effect for any individual subject . |
| 7 | Because they are common in aquatic environments they have a rather good fossil record , and are not uncommon in freshwater sediments of Jurassic and Cretaceous age . |
| 8 | In the mid-1950s they had a sum of £600,000 outstanding on their sales ledger which was far in excess of any other asset . |
| 9 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 10 | Widely used in gardens they impart a predictable flavour — like bottled sauce in a cheap restaurant . |
| 11 | But to the Mesolithic hunter-nomads they formed a forest kingdom , a race of forest creatures , saviours , oracles , and tormentors all at the same time ; they arose in the mythogenic unconscious both to explain nature 's hostility to the people 's actions , and to express the hope of survival against the unknown . |
| 12 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |
| 13 | By producing trend and level analyses they suggest a positive correlation between publication rates of research groups and their output . |
| 14 | In the next few weeks they spent a lot of time together . |
| 15 | For the workers they built a ‘ new town ’ . |
| 16 | Now er all the waggons they had a registration plate on . |
| 17 | Now we 've got burners , in the Montgolfier days they lit a bonfire underneath it , so we 've got a lot more control over it now . |
| 18 | Previously , " the classics " ( or some of them ) were a possession of the educated classes in general and for those classes they constituted a natural part of experience , forming a continuum with modern literatures and ideas . |
| 19 | Across the 15 domains they show a standard deviation of 9.95% , as compared to 5.95% for the general dictionary . |
| 20 | Like Kant 's Ideas they have a regulative function , guiding our actions and our cognitive efforts in a certain direction . |
| 21 | These men and the general merchants needed capital to keep going ; as borrowers and lenders they formed a powerful nucleus in the life of the small provincial town . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to bore you , ’ Harvey said , ‘ but you should understand that these heaps of wire can practically think — linear programming — which means that instead of going through all the alternatives they have a hunch which is the right one . |
| 23 | After a couple of years they adopted a child which they named Peggy , of whom he was very fond . |
| 24 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 25 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 26 | In all years they included a series of national newspapers ; the Daily Mirror , The Times the News of the World the Sunday People and one local , the London Evening Standard . |
| 27 | Outside the north these rarely constituted a coherent connection , but as individuals they provided a necessary point of contact with the area concerned , through which the duke could take action . |
| 28 | Outside the north these rarely constituted a coherent connection , but as individuals they provided a necessary point of contact with the area concerned , through which the duke could take action . |
| 29 | At traffic lights they throw a live rat on to the lap of a woman driver . |
| 30 | In order for children to ask questions they need a diversity of materials to arouse their curiosity and a sense of freedom to question and explore their own potential . |