Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neutralizing involves giving the employee work where their weaknesses can not cause problems and where they get a chance to use whatever strengths they possess . |
| 2 | These originated in Northern Italy , where the pasta is traditionally flat and where they use a lot more egg and cream in their cooking . |
| 3 | At PFK we 've also used them under gravel and growing media ( where they maintain a lot of their thickness depth despite the pressure ) to encourage good plant rooting . |
| 4 | Several West Indians said that they liked the ‘ lay-away ’ system , where they put a deposit on something which the shop then keeps until — perhaps paying instalments — they have settled the full price . |
| 5 | At Freiston Shore there is a hostelry well known to bird watchers where they do a Root pub lunch … |
| 6 | Where they have a choice students use Form M39 to make this and other decisions concerning their award ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ In the case of Killer Queen , which I still like , it was just three separate voices and they go in and out of harmony , but they play their own tune ; I enjoy things like that , where they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 8 | Since sexism is unjust you should make it a point to put women in positions where they have a chance to overcome their historic powerlessness . |
| 9 | Until 30 July , Hervé Di Rosa , who shares Boisrond 's spontaneous populism , though in a more neo-surrealist vein and with more kitsch , is showing ten or so of his paintings at the Laage-Salomon , where they constitute a mini-retrospective of the years 1982–1992 . |
| 10 | Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides . |
| 11 | As this is no longer a public holiday , many people arrange either to work on a Bank Holiday in order to have this day off or they take a day of their holiday allocation . |
| 12 | Some relationships have already split up before girls realise that their periods have stopped or they feel a bit sick , and they discover they are well and truly pregnant . |
| 13 | And then you they ask you a number of questions , often pretty stupid questions , they go away and write a bit which contains some errors , or they broadcast a bit which does n't seem quite right , and then you feel cross and you say ‘ I 'm never going to speak to that lot again . ’ |
| 14 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |
| 15 | Edwards , in his book on in-service training , excluded short courses held by outside bodies as being ‘ properly outside the scope of this study ( although they deserve a mention because they are commonly used to supplement in-service training ) ’ . |
| 16 | On the ground most larvae are active ; although they require a film of water for movement and are stimulated by light and temperature , it is now thought that larval movement is mostly random and encounter with grass blades accidental . |
| 17 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They ca n't talk yet , ’ I explained patiently , ‘ although they understand a lot . ’ |
| 19 | Many machine knitters decide in the morning that , although they have a wardrobe full of clothes , they have nothing suitable to wear that evening . |
| 20 | Although they have a base in Hanover House , they are rarely seen here as their workload of visits increases . |
| 21 | Manchester City are eighth in the table but , amazingly , only two points better off than Ipswich , although they have a match in hand . |
| 22 | Manchester City are eighth in the table but , amazingly , only two points better off than Ipswich , although they have a match in hand . |
| 23 | Many Third World countries owe more in debts than they earn a year from exports : |
| 24 | before they actually suggest to somebody that they sell a house , that they sell a house and moved to a smaller one , they have to be unemployed for quite some time . |
| 25 | before they actually suggest to somebody that they sell a house , that they sell a house and moved to a smaller one , they have to be unemployed for quite some time . |
| 26 | I hope that they reach a decision sooner than later , a decision to allow the most needy members of our society to join us . |
| 27 | This rent in the tribal fabric was torn wider by Dr Elijah White , Superintendent of Indian Affairs , who presented the Nez Perce with a set of rules to govern them , and demanded that they appoint a head chief . |
| 28 | Pound the garlic , coriander seeds and black pepper in a mortar so that they form a paste . |
| 29 | The needle and sample are chosen so that they form a thermocouple : a device that produces a voltage if the point at which the two materials meet is hotter than its surroundings . |
| 30 | One view was that they form a kind of virtuous circle of equally basic expressions definable in terms of each other . |