Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | but they 've got to , I remember when Rhys played in that , the F A bars quarter final , two seasons ago down here , they got well over a thousand down there then , and you just could n't move , that were brilliant , all the way round the ground there were about four of five people deep |
| 2 | In medieval Christianity they became more specifically a symbol of purity , not just because of their gentle lustre , but still more because they were grown secretly and , it was believed , with personal suffering by the oyster . ) |
| 3 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 4 | If they make too long a line in one direction , it will be corrected by a shorter line somewhere else , and the result will be some modification of the normal vision , which is a natural error in the vision of the artist , and which constitutes his style . ’ |
| 5 | They came together once a year to slip back into what McQuaid said were the days of their glory . |
| 6 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 7 | This is clearly a better place to sell razor blades than Azerbaijan , where the men say they shave only once a week , or , if they want to look their best , every other day . |
| 8 | Those wanting to stay throughout the season do so , but they constitute only about a quarter of initial recruitments and come disproportionately from the category of " persons who work in the holiday Industry " and usually occupy the more skilled jobs . |
| 9 | They slept under just a blanket in the mouth of a cave while we needed hot water bottles in our sleeping bags . |
| 10 | They have too low a melting point and are too unstable , but they can be ‘ stiffened ’ by adding a moderate amount of lime to produce a modest increase in melting temperature . |
| 11 | They have as wide a range of life habits as any group , from scavengers , grazers , filter feeders , vegetarians , omnivores , to fierce predators with reputations to rival that of the sharks . |
| 12 | They have as wide a range of political opinions as any other professionally-defined group , with , one would like to think , some extra tinge of willingness to examine new ideas . |
| 13 | Further experiments showed that sloth metabolism was so slow that they defecated only once a week . |
| 14 | But these arguments rest on a belief in a general vocational potential for something like ‘ good mothering ’ , which they see as fundamentally a property of individuals . |
| 15 | They represent much more a decline in the use of all classical legal categories . |
| 16 | There were relatively fewer pure gangster films after 1933 but there were a large number of social or ‘ social-problem ’ films although even they remained as only a small percentage of the total Hollywood package . |
| 17 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |