Example sentences of "[verb] they [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 2 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 4 | The basic models or ‘ paradigms ’ of scientific theories seemed firm , though great scientists like James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831–79 ) formulated their versions with the instinctive caution which made them compatible with later theories based on very different models . |
| 5 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
| 6 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |
| 7 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 8 | She told some lies about the close relations between the old malai half of the island and ours which had , she said , made them indistinguishable for all practical purposes : for example , it was not an invasion but a reunion . |
| 9 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 10 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 11 | However , we believe many Planning Committee members are fearful that voting to refuse will make them vulnerable to unpleasant accusations that they are uncaring of the needs of terminally ill children . |
| 12 | This restricts the applicability of such rules since it renders them unavailable to any linguist interested in diachronic change or synchronic variation in a language . |
| 13 | She drew off the boots and put them , lolling side by side , as it were breathing together , before she stuffed them full of tissue-paper to keep their shape . |
| 14 | One will be no trouble at all while the other drives them insane with constant problems . |
| 15 | The Spear & Jackson Neverbend range has an excellent hand trowel and fork ( about £5 ) , the 12in wooden handles of which make them suitable for many jobs . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments . |
| 17 | Nonetheless the suggestions outlined in this paper would put new teachers in a strong position to teach language awareness , and make them familiar with important issues in the social dimensions of language in Britain today , both with respect to minority languages and with regard to the linguistic needs of society as a whole . |
| 18 | Indeed , Ernest Bevin , speaking at a union dinner , maintained that , if there is a new conception of the objects of industry , then there can be created in this country … conditions which will minimize strikes and probably make them non-existent for 25 years . ’ |
| 19 | Outline the distinction between exposure and resultant cratering and the factors which make them different from each other . |
| 20 | Night Goblin and Forest Goblin shamans have special rules which make them different from other Goblin shamans . |
| 21 | The suggestion is that this will reduce their chances of finding such work themselves and make them dependent for informal assistance on others whose circumstances are similar to their own . |
| 22 | It had managed to reach the mass of people and make them aware of possible means of tackling their problems . |
| 23 | For example , in some multilingual classrooms pupils carry out activities that make them aware of some of the similarities and differences among their languages ; in other classrooms pupils write play-scripts in regional dialect or study the language of Chaucer . |
| 24 | but it 's erm it does mean that you can , so to speak , design your teeth as a sort of decent engineering job and make them fit with one another and slide over one another and grind and so on . |
| 25 | The bright colours of flowers make them conspicuous from considerable distances . |
| 26 | Swindon have two features in thier play which make them popular with other teams 1 ) they try and play entertaining football from the back and 2 ) ( most importantly ) they 're shit ! |
| 27 | But the jolt to his players ' system kick-started them back into life and Monday 's 1-0 victory over Arsenal has lifted them level with United and three points behind leaders Norwich . |
| 28 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 29 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 30 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |