Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | By this they mean these explanations and facts , research and analysis , thought and hypothesis , abstractions and theories , are uncontaminated by subjective inclinations , personal prejudices , biases , all that sort of thing , so noticeable among non-scientists . |
2 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
3 | For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands . |
4 | After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla . |
5 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
6 | He said : ‘ In this country we tend to take our democratic rights for granted but this event gives Cleveland people a chance to make it clear they value those rights and believe that everyone in South Africa should have them too . ’ |
7 | The moment these responses become manifest they control each other ’ ( Benjamin 1973b : 236 ) . |
8 | I am suprised they agreed personal terms . |
9 | They deny that on various occasions unknown between May 1989 and October 1991 they committed indecent offences and raped the sisters in houses in Glasgow . |
10 | If they get one customer they get ten pounds but if they 're unlucky enough to get thirteen they get ten pounds . |
11 | We grow up to believe that doctors in white coats prescribe effective pain-relieving tablets and if the situation is serious they give intravenous injections . |
12 | They say that until now paclitaxel for human drug use has been from felled trees , but in 1993 sources other than Pacific yew bark will be used on a commercial scale , and by 1995 they hope actual trees will no longer be needed to produce the drug . |
13 | In the maritime Antarctic they form short mats or cushions up to 25 cm across and 5–1Ocm deep , typically on warm north — or west-facing slopes close to sea level , in association with each other and with mosses ; they are usually underlain with brown soils to which they have contributed roots and other organic material ( Longton , 1985 ) . |
14 | We think it 's sad they brought this case after the police declined to prosecute , and based it on evidence provided by an anti-hunt political pressure group |
15 | 7 They put some emphasis on consumer choice . |
16 | Such long stints on the carpet are due to the consistency of leading players , whose skill is such they cancel each other out . |
17 | More importantly , when credit is tight they find available funds rationed to large borrowers . |
18 | ‘ They 're that tight they needs strong fingers . ’ |
19 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
20 | A lone mercenary thinks he 's tough enough to take on a bunch of macho gun-toting enemy soldiers ( who are probably so 'ard they eat shredded wheat , box and all , for brekky ) . |
21 | By 1831 they controlled 7,000 spindles and , adding new mills and steam power , were to employ 510 hands by 1845 . |
22 | If they are ill they get good doctors , if there is a divorce … over the years we have worked and experimented to discover new things and remember old ones . |
23 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |
24 | At worst they put one peg in where we had three . |
25 | When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings . |
26 | In 1952 they released one group ( identified by the removal of the right pelvic fin ) at Issaquah Hatchery , and the other ( which had their left pelvic fin removed ) at the University Hatchery . |
27 | I found out that the captain and two of his men , all Americans , were n't on the ship last night , so I 'm sure they killed poor John Openshaw . |
28 | There was the glance over the shoulder now and again to make sure they kept some distance between them and the white proletariat which erupted in new housing estates , bringing property values down . |
29 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
30 | ‘ Quite often the mother of the groom and the mother of the bride come in together because we can make sure they compliment each other . |