Example sentences of "[vb -s] they [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 2 | Even more extraordinary is the paucity of such information in the captions to the colour figures , which renders them of little use to the hobbyist . |
| 3 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ To find the correct homeopathic remedy for any condition , the symptoms are diagnosed in those terms , and the Materia Medica places them under those headings : location , sensation etc . ’ |
| 5 | Even crystal beads , whose actual source is unknown , but whose type of geographic distribution places them with this group , has a similar fall-off with a peak at Sleaford . |
| 6 | The reproductive role of women exposes them to many health problems , including diseases associated with malnutrition , infections and diseases brought on by inadequate prenatal care . |
| 7 | It focusses them on some of the visual clues they might otherwise miss . |
| 8 | As the name implies they do not harden permanently but will soften repeatedly if one subjects them to some temperature between about 100° and 150°C . |
| 9 | If going to bed , eating and hairwashing always happen in the same way , she accepts them with little or no fuss . |
| 10 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 11 | Worse still , he/she perhaps never articulates them at all unless he/she expects to have to spell them out . |
| 12 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 13 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 14 | Makarenko describes them in this way : |
| 15 | The consequence is a metropolitan elite of ‘ spoiled children ’ , whose licence to provoke frees them from any need to enter into a dialogue with their audiences . |
| 16 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 17 | Third parties have no legal basis for a claim that a treaty merely affects them in some way , or that non-performance or reduced performance has frustrated their own expectations ; nor can they interfere with the rights of other States to enter into such treaties . |
| 18 | But it must not be thought that papal conciliar decrees which seem so clear-cut to the modern scholar , who sees them in all the clarity of the printed page , had a similar force and clarity for contemporaries . |
| 19 | The children looked bewildered , but she added consolingly , ‘ That 's why dogs have to have an injection every year that protects them against that horrible disease as well as many others . ’ |
| 20 | I loved the bit where Kevin leads them into all those traps . |
| 21 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
| 22 | The course takes them through some of Herefordshire 's most beautiful countryside . |
| 23 | They then have to try and unravel it and , in so doing , will find that it takes them in all sorts of different places until at the end they find a small present . |
| 24 | Erm , another reason why I ca n't give you the whole story of course is because then there 'd be no reason to take this baby rather than this baby at the hospital , you know , so their histories are exactly identical , I E nil , erm , nothing individuates them on that account . |
| 25 | Human subjects are volunteers ; a fact which commends them to those opposed to the use of animals incapable of choice . |
| 26 | This memory draws them across several hundred miles of ocean , brings them to a particular bay and , as the scent gets stronger and stronger , up one special river and into one particular stream . |
| 27 | But their recording finds them in less than top form , and Solti sometimes leads them astray . |
| 28 | It is the fear of an election that at present prevents them in many instances from disobeying their party whip . |
| 29 | The true cats of the genus Felis have a different attachment of the larynx that robs them of this ability . |
| 30 | Her substantial and brilliant book A Rhetoric of the Unreal uses the work of French intellectual stars in a familiar and matter-of-fact way , without any of the bedazzlement that surrounds them on this side of the Channel . |