Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate Bristow commented , ‘ It is a real privilege for ACET to be asked to work with such people as they look for ways to develop an effective strategy . ’ |
| 2 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
| 3 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 4 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 5 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 6 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 7 | He has dismissed warnings from the Office of Fine Arts that it is forbidden to deal in State property , quoting the former assistant secretary of state L. de Graaff , who in 1984 stated that the artists were free to do with these works as they wished . |
| 8 | To the north-west of Lake Baikal it was the Evenkis who absorbed Ket people as they advanced westward to the Yenisei and beyond . |
| 9 | Now , many people as they retrieved their fingers from the handshake were likely to tell you that their husband had just fathered an illegitimate child and ask your advice on how to proceed , or offer to give you the telephone number of their analyst/acupuncturist/homeopath/hypnotist who had been so helpful over their drink problem . |
| 10 | Cleaning up contamination is wonderfully labour-intensive : some old military sites being cleaned up by the Department of Energy now employ twice as many people as they did at their peak of production . |
| 11 | They were a very sober pair as they set out again for Gore . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't live as close to other folk as they do , ’ he remarked to his father . |
| 13 | In the final chapter the narrator relates the actions of the new people as they flee from their encounter with the Neanderthalers . |
| 14 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 15 | The the next advertising route captured the ‘ Haagen-Dazs ’ moment by conveying sensual intimacy between two people as they shared a pot of Haagen-Dazs . |
| 16 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 17 | We must redouble our efforts to help the Russian people as they struggle in an effort that has no historical precedent , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Like any other European colonialists , they were content to rely upon the services of interpreters from among the local people as they advanced farther into unknown territory . |
| 19 | Some elderly people who have always been very flexible like being ‘ popped in on ’ without prior warning , but most people as they grow older much prefer all the events in their lives to be regular and predictable . |