Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The actuals remain of importance but in these kinds of organizations they take an equal place alongside the budget .
2 But at the end of the day they are n't in that league cos most thieves are opportunists they seize a common opportunity that is presented to them by or it could be they 've actually just watched her go out and more of a chance .
3 In other words they increase the open state probability , they do n't increase the number of channels , or very very rarely do they increase the number of channels , or the unitary current through each channel once it is open .
4 Together with the Activity Books they provide an invaluable teaching resource which will save teachers hours of time which would otherwise be spent recording or researching materials .
5 However , although home-grown plants do not look like their parents they retain the chemical characteristics .
6 Widely used in gardens they impart a predictable flavour — like bottled sauce in a cheap restaurant .
7 By producing trend and level analyses they suggest a positive correlation between publication rates of research groups and their output .
8 Across the 15 domains they show a standard deviation of 9.95% , as compared to 5.95% for the general dictionary .
9 Like Kant 's Ideas they have a regulative function , guiding our actions and our cognitive efforts in a certain direction .
10 With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether .
11 At traffic lights they throw a live rat on to the lap of a woman driver .
12 But rather than meet this challenge , entitlement theorists simply take for granted that if original acquirers deserve any rights they deserve the full rights of liberal ownership , and hence assume , rather than demonstrate , the legitimacy of that which has to be justified : the institution of private property .
13 Be careful with soilless composts they have a nasty tendency to become bone-dry in the middle , while the surface remains moist and apparently well watered .
14 The relation in Lowland Amerindian societies between power , knowledge , scarce resources and social action is increasingly recognized as a key theoretical area for debate ; and for many investigators who specialize in South American studies they see a critical need for the elaboration of a theory of power ( or various of them ) that would make understandable the non-centralized authority structures of Tropical South America .
15 These are the , these are the fibre producers , yarn producers they give the young designers ideas of how to put these fabrics together .
16 Another important group , the retired , can place significant demands on local facilities and services , but in housing terms they form a heterogeneous group since some have capital from the sale of housing in more expensive locations while others are in competition for cheaper housing , and especially for rural local authority houses and sheltered accommodation ( Law and Warnes 1976 ; Phillips and Williams 1982a ) .
17 In general terms they house the expected local authority records , but also frequently hold large numbers of estate , manorial , business and family papers , enclosure and tithe awards .
18 And when they are listening in this way to check their theories they have a real purpose in listening .
19 And instead of being a snug fitting pair of undies they become a big baggy pair of undies that are really neither use nor ornament .
20 As up to 4() per cent of their income comes from corporate profits they have a vested interest in working for the common benefit .
21 If they are in different rooms they have a spatial barrier .
22 If they are in different rooms they have a spatial barrier .
23 Melman told the tale of an American car parts manufacturer where one plant elected to perpetuate Taylorism when it installed computers , and the other agreed ( as a condition of collective bargaining ) to train workers to program , In the first plant , workers were designated ‘ operators ’ and paid $12–50 an hour ; when their machine malfunctions they nip the on-off switch and call in a repairman .
24 It 's nice to report that virtually all these have a sound fishkeeping function built into their design — in most cases they form a nice cave or one shape or another .
25 When ingested by animals they accumulate in the blood and tissues unchanged or after minor oxidative alterations and in some cases they form the prosthetic group of a chromoprotein .
26 In extreme cases they develop a real school phobia , for reasons ranging from bullying by classmates to schoolwork anxiety .
27 Beaked whales generally have only a single pair of teeth protruding from their lower jaw , and instead of teeth they use a ribbed palate to get a firm grasp on their prey .
28 We been in Cowley nick so many times they keep a special room for us and inside it 's got Eddie and Rich written on the walls — and they do n't bother to clean it off 'cos they know we 'll be back and write it up again …
29 If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond .
30 If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond .
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