Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 2 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 3 | Stick foods are currently very popular — with a lot of air in the mix they float like a Li-Lo . |
| 4 | Such changing adviser practices seem to have had an impact upon arts advisers which can still be observed in the tension they feel between a commitment to the professional development of the general class teacher and the supervision of centralized performance activities ( Tweddell , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | In the third term they embark on a general survey of the History of Medicine and Science which allows them to put other subjects which the study into their historical context . |
| 6 | In winter they act as a safety valve when the two straight bordering rivers , dug in the seventeenth century by a Dutchman , Cornelius Vermuyden , become swollen with rain and overflow . |
| 7 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 8 | You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today . |
| 9 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 10 | The play tells several stories , such as young love , but most of all it tells of the magnificent Madame MacAdam and her troupe and of the comic and tragic effects they have upon an isolated community . |
| 11 | Gatfield is still surprised by the record-buying public 's assumption that the first record they purchase by a new act must be that artist 's first release . |
| 12 | THERE can be few musicals that so vividly evoke the era they portray as A Slice of Saturday Night , a 60s skit on teenage passions set in Eric ‘ Rubberlegs ’ De Vene 's Club A Go-Go . |
| 13 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 14 | It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both . |
| 15 | On the other hand , as the new scheme stands , it will make little impact on the poverty experienced by lone mothers ; there is still no adequate compensation for women for the costs they bear as a consequence of inequalities in marriage and child-rearing ; and the financial dependency of individual women on individual men is maintained . |
| 16 | Our interest , however , lies in the principles employed by the pupils themselves to fit the actions they describe into a meaningful framework . |
| 17 | he added , ‘ I know that has meant taking younger men as lifeboat crew to withstand the battering they receive in a heavy sea . |
| 18 | In mathematics and the sciences they fail in a rather different way : they simply are not demanding enough , especially in mathematics . |
| 19 | To stop the argument they decide on a compromise : the patient gets half of one treatment and half of the other . |
| 20 | EVERY retailer , big or small , selling electrical and gas appliances , will be obliged to ‘ energy label ’ the items they sell under a European Commission proposal . |
| 21 | However , I can not get excited by them ( and that applies to the passion they generate in a sexual as well as a moralistic sense ) and would certainly not ever describe them as sublime . |
| 22 | It is supposed that pupils ' attitudes should also be affected by lesson activities and the classroom environment they experience during a course of computer education . |
| 23 | Stalinist And once again the mad axemen from Wapping and elsewhere will be sharpening their stilettos ( knives not heels ) in the hope of finally despatching the manager they see as a soccer Satanist . |
| 24 | Devise a recipe incorporating potatoes which shows what a valuable role they play in a healthy eating regime . |
| 25 | The claim that concepts derive their meaning at least in part from the role they play in a theory is supported by the following historical reflections . |
| 26 | These are important questions for people who want to monitor the amount of alcohol they consume on a regular basis and perhaps replace their standard consumption with products that are reduced in alcohol . |
| 27 | We consider that shoppers need to be made fully aware that a seller 's commission might make the advice they get in a shop or garage at least potentially biased . |
| 28 | We shall go on improving education and training to guarantee that all our children have the basic knowledge and skills they need in a modern economy . |
| 29 | We saw in chapter 4 that mixtures may be homogeneous , in which case they exist as a single phase , or they may be heterogeneous . |
| 30 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |