Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge them to continue to meet the necessary level of funding to maintain and update where necessary what has been achieved . |
| 2 | The libraries are well stocked with books on the law , many of them designed to help the lay person . |
| 3 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 4 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 5 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 6 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 7 | A lot of them seem to have the whole class |
| 8 | ‘ Those at the power station , for instance , live in hostels at the plant during their working week to save them having to make the three or four hour journey each way from Shenzen where their homes are . |
| 9 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 10 | They failed to reflect the political spectrum in its entirety and they tended to exclude or denigrate all those who strayed outside the centre of the political stage . |
| 11 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 12 | Although the Radburn layouts were safer than earlier designs , they failed to solve the triangular conflict between safety , environmental attractiveness and access . |
| 13 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 14 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 15 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 16 | One sympathized , but how they failed to recognize the extraordinary quality of the work will always be beyond me . |
| 17 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 18 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , of Durham county council , told members that they planned to end the unnecessary wait . |
| 19 | They agreed to ban the Dutch from their ports and airfields and demanded that the UN Security Council take action . |
| 20 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 21 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 22 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 23 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 24 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 25 | Two other authorities , however , did indicate how they intend to reconcile the two systems . |
| 26 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 27 | More importantly , they advocate removing the overwhelming power of the central state to dictate , and leaving states , counties and cities to decide matters for themselves . |
| 28 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 29 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 30 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |