Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Sargent 's diagrams of Great Zawn in particular , are excellent and should help demystify areas like this so they achieve the popularity they deserve . |
| 2 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 3 | In order to allow EC member states to agree how triangulation supplies should be separately identified on EC sales listings , businesses using the simplification option need not disclose details of their triangulation supplies during the quarter ending 31 March 1993 until they complete the statement for the quarter ending 30 June 1993 . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't do things like this unless they have the full knowledge and approval of the Royal Family . ’ |
| 5 | They must be treated as adequate because they reflect the statutory provisions in regard to appeals by persons upon who intervention notices are served by S.I.B . |
| 6 | He followed her down one quiet suburban street after another till they approached the busy main road . |
| 7 | The talk at this week 's London International Book Fair at Olympia was of recession and ‘ Aga-sagas ’ , so-called because they feature the type of characters whose homes would be incomplete without an Aga . |
| 8 | Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional . |
| 9 | The latter are especially interesting since they constitute the outer ring of the EEC and also because they have considerably higher standards of living than do the EEC Member States . |
| 10 | Is n't it a disgrace Madam Speaker , that the government should duck the opportunity to make a clear statement on a sixty , on an increase which is the sixteenth since they made the promise in nineteen seventy nine that they would not increase prescription charges . |
| 11 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 12 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 13 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 14 | There was an added pleasure to this as they used the cable that connected the spy camera on the wall , so , for a few hours at least , we had some privacy . |
| 15 | A pair of good cotton gloves make working with chocolate that much easier as they increase the length of time that you can handle the chocolate before it melts . |
| 16 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 17 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
| 18 | But a High Court judge said the plans were already public when they bought the house . |
| 19 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 20 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 21 | This is traditional children 's Christmas holiday fare and those of you with sprogs still naive enough to appreciate it could do worse than plonk them in front of this when they start the equally traditional post-present grizzling . |
| 22 | Jamie was why you got back on the horse , why you did n't say if you were afraid when they stitched the cut on your face after the brakes on the bike failed . |
| 23 | True , it had been reasonably light when they left the station , and Glasgow , its war scars softened by the approaching night , had seemed like Liverpool to Vi . |
| 24 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 25 | As a result Beaumaris have raised their current points total to 53 as they harass the leaders Llanfairpwll who are on 54 . |
| 26 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 27 | It was too late to go home after that so they stayed the night . |
| 28 | These small streams are often fast flowing until they reach the lower elevations of the Low Weald . |
| 29 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 30 | Even at the most constantly watched setts , the badgers can sometimes become nervous if they catch the scent of a stranger , particularly if there are none of the usual human visitors present either . |