Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
2 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
3 | It 's quite funny watching them make complete fools of themselves . |
4 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
5 | ‘ I really do n't like them eating that sort of disgusting junk food , ’ Laura protested . |
6 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
7 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
8 | Ideas about not ‘ burdening others ’ with personal problems , that discussing them denotes some kind of ‘ personal weakness ’ , are common within the older generations , especially when the prospective counsellee has a strong sense of personal dignity and pride . |
9 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
10 | We put all sorts of rules in , we we make them undergo various periods of er , o of probation before we 're wor , we 've we 're , we 're willing to call them Christians . |
11 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
12 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
13 | The countries have also committed themselves to ( i ) promoting integrated pest management in agriculture and ( ii ) providing financial and technical support to farmers to help them introduce non-chemical methods of controlling pests . |
14 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
15 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
16 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
17 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
18 | We have welcomed what the Board are doing , and we 've encouraged them to find new ways of doing so more in meeting the needs of the elderly who increase in numbers here in Scotland . |
19 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
20 | Having educated our clients in relation to the psychology and physiology of anxiety , the next step is to help them break any patterns of avoidance that may have become established . |
21 | Two men sat at a table near the counter , one of them pushing huge forkfuls of food into his mouth , the other sipping at a cup of tea . |
22 | They give both psychological and physiological evidence for the primacy of these notions , and they use them to define object-recognizing routines of increasing power . |
23 | There were days when the leaders of the band refused to let them light any kind of fire in case German patrols found them and yet they somehow still had to produce food that the men could eat . |
24 | The men in the Toms family support each other a great deal ; none of them show any disapproval of Sandy 's lifestyle . |
25 | There were daunting moments in last night 's First Tuesday ( Yorkshire ) , but few of them matched that hint of a jackboot under the blue serge . |
26 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
27 | This enables them to stash five-figure sums of undisclosed gate receipts into a ‘ slush fund ’ . |
28 | In social life we build personal ‘ constructs ’ ( Kelly 1955 ) and use them to create consistent patterns of relating with others . |
29 | Unfortunately the kings of Israel were a pretty disappointing lot , and most of them showed little sign of the presence of the Lord the Spirit in their lives and reigns . |
30 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |