Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands . |
3 | After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . ’ |
6 | I am suprised they agreed personal terms . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | If they get one customer they get ten pounds but if they 're unlucky enough to get thirteen they get ten pounds . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | More importantly , when credit is tight they find available funds rationed to large borrowers . |
13 | ‘ They 're that tight they needs strong fingers . ’ |
14 | By 1831 they controlled 7,000 spindles and , adding new mills and steam power , were to employ 510 hands by 1845 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The Department of Health said tests would begin today on the vaccines to make sure they met British standards . |
20 | Anyone considering a purchase from this company should make sure they get cast-iron guarantees concerning specification and after sales support or , like me and many others to my knowledge , they will wish that they had not been taken in by misleading advertising and had paid a little more money to an established British company . |
21 | ‘ In any case , I 'm not that sure they have sixty pounds between them . |
22 | They get all they get promised orders right up until a month before switch on time and then it goes . |
23 | I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in . |
24 | arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . |
25 | The distinctive mark of these church planting activities is that the churches planted are more a federation of congregations than churches in their own right , arid they retain strong links with the overall structure of Ichthus . |
26 | In 1930 they scored 132 goals , five more than the first team in their record Championship year . |
27 | At a stocktaking in October 1869 they had 421 cups , 521 saucers , 104 plates and 127 yards of white cotton . |
28 | From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly . |
29 | Rigby reckoned that the referee , who had the casting vote , was sure to side with Harlequins given that they had six players in the England side for the following week . |
30 | However , they are limited in that they create artificial contexts which may not provide a good basis for predicting performance in other settings . |