Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 2 | The producers liked the idea so much that they decided to make a two part series full of dancing , celebrations , cookery and food . |
| 3 | The cells could be multipotential , migrate to all the sites and only once they had arrived would they , due to local signals , be directed along the correct developmental pathway . |
| 4 | But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) . |
| 5 | So that they began to hint that I could n't be so very friendly if I was afraid to take them round to meet him . |
| 6 | As the tide rose , the wind shredded the clouds above them and pushed a mighty swell across the water , so that they began to roll as they had once rolled at sea . |
| 7 | Middy snuggled up closer to him , his shadow a small lump on Lowell 's shadow on the ancient walls , so that they seemed to merge like a grotesque pregnancy . |
| 8 | Among its recommendations were ( i ) the creation of vents and energy absorption systems which would dissipate the force of an explosion ; ( ii ) the repositioning of cargo containers to ensure that any explosive energy was either directed outwards or absorbed by other baggage containers ; and ( iii ) improving flight recorders so that they continued working after a power failure . |
| 9 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 10 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 11 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 12 | He used to pop out and use a pay phone , ringing publishers at awkward times like lunch time so that they had to ring him back . |
| 13 | Had they done so with more than ordinary intensity so that they had left behind something of themselves — a persistent aura ? |
| 14 | At night , as they huddled round their fires , the people would murmur about the evil spirit who kicked holes in their kilns so that they had to buy their bricks from Dai Huang . |
| 15 | And dear old Sambo had provided more amusement by purloining the turkey , so that they had to eat the bread-sauce and chestnut stuffing without their raison d'être ! |
| 16 | And he tossed the bunch of keys so that they flew sparkling through the air and landed in the princess 's lap . |
| 17 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 18 | As the blood began once more to course through George 's legs , his muscles went into spasms of cramp , so that they needed to pause every few yards . |
| 19 | It was the introduction of pulsation into their forms so that they appeared to swell and contract rhythmically . |
| 20 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 21 | Not that the Pioneers of the Consumers ' Movement supposed that they were abandoning Owenite objectives , still less that they intended to do so . |
| 22 | However , in an official joint statement Shar " and Genscher stated only that they had discussed " the situation in the Middle East , the state of the Middle East peace process and bilateral questions " . |
| 23 | Bonefish Straker reckoned that some Bahamian kids must have stolen the boat as a means of getting home , but we would never know who had wrecked her , only that they had removed a dinghy load of gear including her chronometer , sextant , VHF , barometer , spare sails , lines , fenders , and even the mattress off the starboard quarter-berth . |
| 24 | They had managed to stay together although they had lost all their kit and most of their clothes . |
| 25 | On top of this , Germany 's trading partners have benefited less than they had hoped from increased demand in Germany . |
| 26 | The Conservative Party won only 42.9 per cent of the popular vote , less than they had achieved in any election between 1945 and 1979 , and did badly in Scotland and much of northern England . |
| 27 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps if they had got at Sir Oswald it would not have been so jolly , ’ Sir Patrick said acidly . |
| 29 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 30 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |