Example sentences of "[vb -s] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | got cod roe and fish cakes for supper and bought four salmon heads ( OH how I hate those glazed eyes looking at me when first one steams them to get the good flesh off ) for soup . |
| 2 | However after one to three years a signal , possibly hormonal , causes them to don the silvery camouflage of sea fish . |
| 3 | He wants them to scrap the minimum lending rates which are used to keep interest rates high , even though the bank base rates have fallen . |
| 4 | The things he says are right , and they explain his popularity , but ho he says them explains the certain wariness with which he is regarded . |
| 5 | It allows them to promote the false claim that the blacks are not fit to run South Africa when clearly they are still at each other 's throats . |
| 6 | The success experienced by learners using word-processing enhances their self-confidence and very often motivates them to tackle the difficult task of handwriting ; it can be seen to extend both the volume and content of their written work . |
| 7 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 8 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 9 | These defective viruses have usually lost a portion of their genetic material or suffered a single mutation that prevents them completing the full replicative cycle . |
| 10 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 11 | I think that if a young person consents to such a placement , then it seems they have the emotional capacity to tackle their behaviour without recourse to such a placement ; such an attitude needs working with , not locking away . |
| 12 | The likelihood is the trend will continue as more companies come of size to justify it , but as James Capel chief investment strategist , Alastair Ross Goobey , says , ‘ I do n't think you get any company that thinks they have the whole answer . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't care what they ask me if it helps them find the real killer . |
| 14 | For example , nearly 1,500 managers have attended the ‘ Environmental Focus ’ event , which helps them to understand the chemical industry 's environmental impact and how they , personally , can help achieve ICI 's environmental objectives . |
| 15 | In addition , more than 300 hotels in Vorarlberg have also become ‘ family orientated ’ , which means they offer the main facilities — if not all — provided by the family specialists . |
| 16 | These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political or academic axe to grind and who are , or think that they are , the blessed recipients of some God-given intuition which enables them to divine the actual mind of Parliament , no matter how obscure or equivocal the language in which it has chosen to express itself . |
| 17 | The secret of these organisations is that they have a power which enables them to keep the key people which they want , even if executive search consultants potentially and actually try to lure them away . |
| 18 | This brings them to explore the theoretical level of psychological discourse . |
| 19 | A Directive binds member states to certain specific objectives , but leaves them to implement the necessary measures through national laws . |
| 20 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |