Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These extensive changes integral to the process of industrialisation involved , moreover , a major paradox , in that they brought a ‘ new ’ society with great productive potential and more sophisticated and complex ways of living , while at the same time generating extensive disruptions in , traditional patterns of life and relationships , as well as creating new material problems of overcrowded and unpleasant urban conditions , poverty and unemployment . |
| 2 | But Matthew smiled , his teeth white and strong and so sensuous that they sent a shiver up her spine . |
| 3 | before they actually suggest to somebody that they sell a house , that they sell a house and moved to a smaller one , they have to be unemployed for quite some time . |
| 4 | before they actually suggest to somebody that they sell a house , that they sell a house and moved to a smaller one , they have to be unemployed for quite some time . |
| 5 | It follows that they absorb a large part of the national resources in terms of money and man- and womanpower , and that the financing , staffing and administration of them is very complex . |
| 6 | And he also rejected claims by the policeman and a civilian that they witnessed a soldier being struck by other military personnel to make it appear he had been struck by the car . |
| 7 | So , a possible explanation of the unions ' behaviour is that they judged a Labour victory uncertain , if not unlikely ; that they preferred to make hay while the setting Labour sun still shone ; and that they felt secure against whatever weather a Conservative dawn might bring . |
| 8 | Whatever happens in 1992 we must all work to make our customers appreciate that they receive a first class service . |
| 9 | I hope that they reach a decision sooner than later , a decision to allow the most needy members of our society to join us . |
| 10 | Very often people get so afraid of these consequences that they develop a very serious fear of their own fear response . |
| 11 | This rent in the tribal fabric was torn wider by Dr Elijah White , Superintendent of Indian Affairs , who presented the Nez Perce with a set of rules to govern them , and demanded that they appoint a head chief . |
| 12 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | The needle and sample are chosen so that they form a thermocouple : a device that produces a voltage if the point at which the two materials meet is hotter than its surroundings . |
| 14 | The more phosphate that is available , the more algae grow and multiply , sometimes to such an extent that they form a dense mat over the surface of the water . |
| 15 | The crucial process , which the British Technology Group is patenting , aligns the polymers so that they form a coherent layer . |
| 16 | Secondly , effective defence in depth presupposes that castles have been sited with this end in view , and that they form a coherent group under unified control . |
| 17 | The use of different flowers for each picture means that each design stands on its own but when the pictures are placed together it is obvious that they form a pair . |
| 18 | To do this , fix battens to the wall , levelling then with slivers of wood , so that they form a truly flat surface ( check with a spirit level in all directions ) . |
| 19 | One view was that they form a kind of virtuous circle of equally basic expressions definable in terms of each other . |
| 20 | For mile after mile along the dark beaches , the living tide of horseshoe crabs is so thick that they form a continuous strip , like a causeway of giant cobbles . |
| 21 | A single small male cone produces several million grains and if you tap one in spring , they fall out in such numbers that they form a golden cloud . |
| 22 | Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back . |
| 23 | The importance of these stored finds is that they form a research collection available for study by archaeologists and others , and some are used for travelling and temporary exhibitions , and in teaching collections on loan to schools . |
| 24 | Pound the garlic , coriander seeds and black pepper in a mortar so that they form a paste . |
| 25 | There are so many of these tiny organisms that they form a vast golden carpet along the shoreline . |
| 26 | These immigrant groups then tend to become part of the lower classes , unless there are so many that they form a separate sub-culture ( as is the case with Turks in West Germany ) . |
| 27 | Their specific significance is that they form a crucial element in what has been called the ‘ self-production ’ of modern societies . |
| 28 | Once in a while someone has such a severe throat infection that they form a large boil behind the tonsils . |
| 29 | Although these activities only relate to a fraction of the total number of UK library authorities , it may be hoped that they foreshadow a revival of interest in an essential and much neglected component of the book provision process . |
| 30 | Proposals , submitted through the Co-ordinator , would have to be assessed by the Group to ensure that they met a number of criteria . |