Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 2 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
| 3 | For Fernando Botero they are omnipotent and corpulent ; for Bernhard Heisig they are wild and aggressive , while for Rolf Szymanski they represent spiritual energy . |
| 4 | The young photographers have bought an old caravan with part of a £500 English Heritage Award for Youth Arts they won last March . |
| 5 | Their ultimate source is maps from Roman imperial times , but in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they received such modifications as the placing of Jerusalem in the centre , as on the Hereford map . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate 's concerns . |
| 9 | If they do n't have the waiver of premiums they get more units , because the more money goes into the er , whatsit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As a result they suffered many casualties . |
| 12 | As a result they have considerable doubts about the validity of the case for the control of mergers . |
| 13 | As a result they pay sky-high premiums . |
| 14 | The counsel told the court : ‘ In Patel 's car they had loud music on and there was a certain amount of laughing going on . |
| 15 | up in Wisbech they love that sort of thing . |
| 16 | I mention them briefly because among management trainers they have many aficionados ; they are written about more fully elsewhere . |
| 17 | To separate their individual styles they split those evenings into consecutive 1520 minute slots and they retain that format for the tour . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 19 | In this guise they embody fundamental truths which are permanent throughout time and space . |
| 20 | So if somebody just writes those two words they get two marks . |
| 21 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 22 | Friday they had fried egg |
| 23 | ESSAY 7 — ; ‘ Their motives for social reform were far from benevolent , but in practice they created embryonic welfare states . ’ |
| 24 | 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. |
| 25 | Japan this cou did this country er good , even though they bombed er Pearl Harbour they did this country a good a good what 's it shall we say |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At eight hours after the last injection they found 17.0 ml emptying , which was not significantly different from postprandial gall bladder contraction without treatment . |
| 28 | Although the PAC and Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) refused to sign the accord they gave separate undertakings to work for peace . |
| 29 | Pitched tail into the wind they offer good stability as long as the side walls are not too high |
| 30 | Once behind their peers they need individual attention to improve their reading . |