Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US duo arrived in Spain on a private jet from North Carolina , where they played in the US Tour Championship on Sunday , and both have to be back in the States next Monday . |
| 2 | Prudential Assurance 's policy treats items such as the installation of a telephone and television aerials where they existed in the old house but not in the new and the reconnection of electrical/gas appliances as separate items . |
| 3 | The adult worms , bright red in colour and up to 2.5 cm in length , are easily recognised at necropsy where they predominate in the horny lining of the gizzard . |
| 4 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 5 | That 's the address of the boatyard office , where they take in the letters . " |
| 6 | Put any group of players together and watch the torture as they painfully suss out where they fit in the ability stakes , and watch the most inept contract into a meek and confused , self-effacing heap . |
| 7 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 8 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 9 | The bodies of 6 ewes and a ram were piled onto a tractor trailer near where they drowned in the Stretford Brook . |
| 10 | Please ensure you include all major events and the names of sponsors where they appear in the name of the event . |
| 11 | Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here . |
| 12 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 13 | It looks as if the two books were not conceived as a single entity although they interrelate in the way that Hilton picks up and elaborates aspects of the subject of Scale 1 in Scale 2 . |
| 14 | Although they tended in the early decades to entertain an idealized image of the peasantry , their subsequent reappraisals could hardly have been more thorough . |
| 15 | 4 subjects failed to attend for assessment at 4 weeks although they remained in the study . |
| 16 | Even in the eighteenth century , when interiors ( and people ) were at every social level a great deal dirtier than they became in the Victorian period , Defoe 's Moll Flanders can forgive a multitude of sins , where everything is ‘ so handsome and so clean ’ . |
| 17 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 18 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that general practitioners , whether fund-holders or not , as a result of the new contract — which initially was often bitterly opposed — are now giving patients a much better service than they had in the past ? |
| 20 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 21 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 22 | In the public sector of the economy , Sellier ( 1978 ) has shown that the influence of French unions is particularly strong since the high concentration of workers within that sector reduces the costs of organisation , the bureaucratic tendencies of large undertakings encourage trade union membership , and the official role accorded by government to the unions gives them a greater authority than they possess in the private sector . |
| 23 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 24 | If anything , farm workers now identify more with farmers than they have in the past . |
| 25 | However , it will be interesting to see whether , under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , their parents will have some liability , and perhaps exercise more supervision over their youngsters than they have in the past . |
| 26 | Certainly the historical evidence as a whole gives little support for the quite widespread belief that older people in the past enjoyed a much more secure and respected position than they do in the present . |
| 27 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 28 | Research shows that secondary pupils do use fewer non-standard forms in talk with the teacher than they do in the playground ; |
| 29 | In addition there is a mass of evidence that a very high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies are physically capable of remaining longer than they do in the formal labour market . |
| 30 | Second , governments play a more active role in influencing the volume of new housing as well as the quality and quantity of housing than they do in the case of other consumer goods . |