Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To answer this they brought the sodium iodide detector over to look for the tell-tale gamma rays . |
| 2 | In conjunction with this they produced a communications system designed to offload the text onto a host computer with the maximum possible reliability . |
| 3 | To find this they enlisted the help of the oldest inhabitant , Betty Bell , who prodded about the village green with her stick . |
| 4 | In this they relate the temperature dependence of the relaxation process to the temperature dependence of the size of a region , which is defined as a volume large enough to allow co-operative rearrangement to take place without affecting a neighbouring region . |
| 5 | In this they had no luck ; the War of Independence broke out while they were in the Carolinas , and they came home no richer , if wiser . |
| 6 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 7 | In the course of this they gather the pheromones that she produces and circulate them quickly throughout the colony . |
| 8 | In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton . |
| 9 | Because of this they have the potential for increasing self-awareness and deepening understanding both of the judgments made and the objects construed . |
| 10 | In this they have the basis to succeed , and one teacher noted after a drop-in day for former pupils : |
| 11 | In doing this they provide the material for their own cultural development that is self-determining and self-governing . |
| 12 | Acknowledging this they presented the Club with an engraved silver rose bowl in 1984 in appreciation of some 15 years of play at Henley which they had chosen from the Daily Telegraph Book on Golf Courses ! |
| 13 | Where they could not achieve this they introduced the fish Gambusia affinis , which eats mosquito larvae , and applied petroleum oils and Paris Green ( copper acetoarsenite ) as poisons . |
| 14 | ‘ They say every man has his double and it is conceivable they made a mistake , ’ he said . |
| 15 | They provided loans and grants for artists in need from May 1870 , in 1885 they offered a pension programme and , in 1910 , a medical aid programme . |
| 16 | The two cardinals were so loudly applauded that it was clear they represented the wishes of the majority . |
| 17 | The book is a twin delight in that the pictures are rare and interesting and the observations are infallibly evocative : Eddie Gilbert , the Queensland Aboriginal ( the all-white South African party made it clear they had no objections to any opponent on colour grounds ) , bowled off six paces and delivered the ball ‘ like bullets ’ ; there is a colourful cameo of Tasmanian wild man Laurie Nash ; the just-completed Sydney Harbour Bridge is explored ; and Viljoen asserts that ‘ if there was no Bradman , I 'm afraid there would be no NSW or Australia ’ . |
| 18 | On a number of occasions the soldiers of the garrison seized wool supplies in the town when their wages were in arrears ; in 1407 they sold the wool and in 1421 the Staplers had to pay £4,000 to recover it . |
| 19 | In 1421 they entered a contract to be loyal to each other without dissimulation or fraud . |
| 20 | Not just having a majority in parliament to govern you and that was being described at that particular time by the Tory government that their majority would be adequate they had a majority of twenty one . |
| 21 | I took a position on the edge of one of the bridges across the Seine and told , in halting fashion , stories about forests so high they pierced the clouds . |
| 22 | Forty two packs of six by five litres , you go across , you take a a sample out of a bag and if it 's low it 's okay , if it 's high they scrap the pallet . |
| 23 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 24 | If they feel that the committee is erring they have a duty to intervene and point out what they think is the best course . |
| 25 | In some they played a role of significance as sources of recruits for the regular army in time of war — for example in France , where a system of militia service was established by Louvois in 1688 and revived in 1726 , in Spain , in Piedmont and in England after the passage of the Militia Act of 1757 . |
| 26 | For some they herald the dawn of a new age in computing ; others see them as nothing more than conventional programmes limited to solving trivial problems . |
| 27 | 17–6–1848 They forwarded a memorial to Lord John Russell praying that the Post Office should be caused to be shut throughout the Kingdom on the Lord 's day ; and on 19th February 1849 they petitioned the shareholders at Perth against running trains on the Sabbath . |
| 28 | well I know when , I know when Alan and Jade were both made emplo , unemployed and Alan withdrawal his dole and when Jade was unemployed they took the dole off Alan and give him sixty pound a week which was you know |
| 29 | But until there 's a better understanding of sickle cell , there 's always the danger the disease will be passed on by carriers unaware they have the gene . |
| 30 | In 1991 they made an operating profit of $17m on revenues of $1.54 billion . |