Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 2 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 3 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 4 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 5 | Robertson confirmed in the second paragraph of his signal that " movement to Italy of all Germans is not acceptable because it would cause serious blockage on our L of C. He therefore informed McCreery that AFHQ would be " approaching 12th Army Group immediately " to ask them to accept all German surrendered personnel from 5 Corps , with the exception of " arrestable categories " , such as SS . |
| 6 | The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum . |
| 7 | ( ‘ When it appears that the Suspect has somebody following them to detect any followers ignore the Suspect and follow the follower instead . ’ ) |
| 8 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 9 | In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment . |
| 10 | If the students we teach have access to video , we need to help them use this opportunity to develop their control of the language they are studying . |
| 11 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 12 | Neither of them showed any inclination to do other than sit outside the café in the sunshine , and Oliver had shifted the conversation far away from the Durances and murder . |
| 13 | Many of them face major cuts to balance at the end of the year and one of them has dangerously low nursing levels . |
| 14 | Beneath them lie more layers extending downwards for thousands of feet , seemingly unchanged in character . |
| 15 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 16 | The resolution for the first time puts the entire UN force in former Yugoslavia under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which permits them to use military force to accomplish their mission . |
| 17 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 18 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 19 | The coolies inside the fetid dens immediately began to stretch their stiffened limbs and drag themselves off their sodden mats , knowing that within minutes the cai would be among them flailing heavy staves to rouse the laggards . |
| 20 | In addition , large overseas banks , e.g. Standard Chartered Bank , also provide vital access to international capital and credit markets for LDCs so enabling them to tap external funds to finance economic development programmes . |
| 21 | This information is also of interest to all engineers to help them encourage good practice approaches to the identification and assessment of risk issues . |
| 22 | Member states will them have 18 months to transfer the directive 's requirements into national law . |
| 23 | It is , of course , right to require them to adopt certain procedures to ensure that the public and the full range of interests represented by the authority have the opportunity to contribute to the consideration . |
| 24 | In coping with their depression they will also have gained insights that will help them to understand other people better and be more able to offer acceptable sympathy and help . |
| 25 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 26 | Having identified staff with dependent relatives and small children , devise methods which will enable them to invite other nurses to substitute for them when crises arise . |
| 27 | Artists , too , have changed , some of them choosing new areas to investigate . |
| 28 | In other words , the payment of high dividends depresses the security 's price which means that investors require a higher income rate of return to induce them to hold those securities paying high dividends . |
| 29 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 30 | Their attention wandered and they lacked any discipline to learn . ’ |