Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 2 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 3 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 4 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 5 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
| 6 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 7 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 8 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 9 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 10 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
| 11 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 12 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 13 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 14 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 15 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 16 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 17 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 18 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 19 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 20 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 21 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 22 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 23 | The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed . |
| 24 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 25 | Vasquez argues that the work carried out by Behaviouralists was based on three central assumptions of Realism , which together put them in the same broad camp . |
| 26 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 27 | All employees are issued a with a security card which not only allows them into the building but also stores details of their credit facilities . |
| 28 | One may wish to study the statistics of word usage or word order with a view to understanding a text better , to catch nuances of meaning and perhaps to render them into a different language . |
| 29 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |