Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 2 | This freed the geologists from this task and gave them more time to write memoirs . |
| 3 | Most of them also expect to form families . |
| 4 | soc : Yes , but they mostly seem to have people like you assessing the proposals . |
| 5 | For example , bureaux in the Home Counties will often boast of a waiting list of volunteers such that , in fact , they rarely need to mount recruitment campaigns . |
| 6 | A Merseyside based analysist said last night : ‘ Sadly they are still in a mess , they badly need to reduce debts of approaching £1bn even though we expect to see a improvement in profitability this year . ’ |
| 7 | They only try to keep people out just before Christmas , to stop them stealing the fir trees . ’ |
| 8 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 9 | Initially they only need to keep track of customers , write letters and run a spreadsheet . |
| 10 | Well , they just keep building flats do n't they ? |
| 11 | They just keep taking money away from me . |
| 12 | And they just want to hear people talking so just carry on with your meeting , take no notice of that . |
| 13 | They just want to know help is there if they need it . |
| 14 | While these assumptions are considered by many educators to be oversimplistic , they nevertheless serve to draw attention to specifically adult learning needs of which tutors in adult education need to have and understanding . |
| 15 | These days pay negotiators in the West have one eye always on the retail price index — they broadly aim to secure wage increases at least equal to the rate of inflation . |
| 16 | That 's not a way of fudging some other cost , the retained fire fighters are recompensed when we provide training for them , because they normally have to lose work or whatever . |
| 17 | But they still do get nurses due for retirement who have nowhere to go apart from a special retirement home for others in the same profession . |
| 18 | They still have to overcome problems with sound quality and catering . |
| 19 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 20 | My suspicion remains that they still want to close Rosyth . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ When photographers come here , they always want to take photographs of the worst flats . ’ |
| 22 | They are frequently written in a way that omits insulin when the blood glucose is within the normal range , and they usually fail to take account of the insulin resistance induced by increased ketone body production . |
| 23 | They also get to play games and no doubt have a lot of fun ‘ getting in touch with the inner child ’ . |
| 24 | Dental hygienists work independently in a dental surgery , giving treatment such as scaling and polishing teeth ; they also try to educate people to try to take better care of their teeth . |
| 25 | They also try to draw lessons from other countries . |
| 26 | Restrictive trade practices provisions obviously control price-fixing agreements and other abuses by cartels but they also control licensing agreements ; for example , where the proprietor of a patent attempts to impose onerous terms on the licensee . |
| 27 | They also hope to raise funds for research into brain tumours . |
| 28 | They also hope to raise funds for vital research into brain tumours . |
| 29 | They also hope to tour Zimbabwe . |
| 30 | They also seek to become owners of policy initiatives rather than to act as transmitters for central political goals . |