Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them always got the better shots . |
| 2 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 3 | Studies of this kind were influenced first by studies and methods of denudation chronology , of which they naturally formed the later stages , and secondly by developments in the study of the Pleistocene where the work of Zeuner ( 1945 , 1958 ) and the work of geologists ( e.g. Wright , 1937 ; Flint , 1947 ; Charlesworth , 1957 ) had been particularly influential . |
| 4 | Small cetaceans would probably not fare better than birds after exposure to excessive quantities of organochlorines. indeed dolphins and porpoises may be particularly vulnerable because they apparently have a lower capacity for PCB degradation than birds . |
| 5 | They generally present a greater barrier to takeovers in EC member states than technical barriers , in particular in Spain , Italy and France . |
| 6 | They generally have a higher degree . |
| 7 | In addition , equities have a greater appeal to many groups of investors as they generally carry a higher expected rate of return . |
| 8 | Four of our six patients with active disease were on steroid therapy and they still had a greater absorption of PEGs than the patients in remission and controls . |
| 9 | A Byzantine historian remarked of the Franks in the sixth century that ‘ although they have become Christians , they still keep a greater part of their ancient religion ’ . |
| 10 | They still used the simpler armour found from the preceding century , with conical helmets padded or plated hauberks or jerkins , and fought with unprotected legs . |
| 11 | United at first only by philosophic error , they quickly establish the deeper unity of joint snorers . |
| 12 | They also earmarked a further three potential sites in Cornwall . |
| 13 | It was not merely that many people were dismayed by Labour 's tax plans : they also felt a wider and deeper sense of mistrust , that Labour 's numbers on revenue and spending simply did not add up . |
| 14 | There are no parturition problems : the calves are small at birth ( 30–35kg ) and have nicely tapered heads , and the prepotent bulls are ideal for crossing on first-calf heifers ; they also give a shorter gestation period by about a week and colour-mark their progeny . |
| 15 | They also include the broader strategic activities of PR , marketing and forward planning . |
| 16 | Its words are deeply personal ( ‘ I only know what I believe ’ ) but they also paint a bigger picture , of man in The New Age . |
| 17 | Its words are deeply personal ( ‘ I only know what I believe ’ ) but they also paint a bigger picture , of man in The New Age . |
| 18 | They also have a greater tendency to rate themselves as ambitious , highly sexed , strong-willed and well endowed . |
| 19 | They also have a higher use of sex aids , voyeurism and troilism . |
| 20 | They also have a higher prevalence of high blood pressure and rheumatic complaints ( Campling , 1981 , p. 142 ) . |
| 21 | But they also have a steadier , more sober way of edging themselves forward with their front pair of fins . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , they also encourage a greater reliance on means-tested benefits , which are divorced from employment records . |
| 23 | They probably have a clearer idea of the type of person needed in the post . |
| 24 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 25 | When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries . |
| 26 | Cylinders rely on suction , which is why they often have a higher wattage than uprights . |
| 27 | They often pay a higher pension , based on 1/60th for each year of service rather than l/80th , but the tax-free lump sum has to be bought by giving up part of your pension . |
| 28 | Secondly , when readers complain about the lives of writers — why did n't he do this ; why did n't he protest to the newspapers about that ; why was n't he more involved in life ? — are n't they really asking a simpler , and vainer , question : why is n't he more like us ? |
| 29 | They then use the shorter needle-sharp lower mandible to cut a slit into the flower through which they insert their tongue . |
| 30 | Galway 's first success came in 1923 , and they then added a further three in the 80s , 1980 , 1987 , 1988 . |