Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued that since the concentration of military forces in the hands of the League would be a step towards their total elimination , absolute pacifists should have no difficulty in supporting collective security as a step in the right direction . |
| 2 | They argued that when a party had won an election on a given programme , it showed that the public wanted these measures to be passed . |
| 3 | They found that where the market value was 85 per cent or less of that predicted by the model , shares outperformed the market . |
| 4 | They behaved as though the European exchange rate mechanism had equipped them with a monetary policy and had left no point in discussing the subject further . |
| 5 | Indeed , they believed that unless the privileged sections of the community were prepared to adapt and to " improve " , waves of dangerous and uncontrollable innovation would completely drown the existing social order . |
| 6 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 7 | They assumed that if the unperturbed polymer is approximated by a hydrodynamic sphere , then [ η ] , the limiting viscosity number in a theta solvent , could be related to the square root of the molar mass by where |
| 8 | They predicted that when a subject 's attention was on the actor a situation would be described using an active , whereas when attention was on the acted-upon ( the recipient of action ) , greater use would be made of the passive . |
| 9 | They claimed that before the cameras began to roll Kylie and Charlie could be seen locked in heated discussion abut just how heavy they should get in the love scene . |
| 10 | Bearing this in mind , the results are perhaps surprising because they showed that when the target came early in a word , reaction times were long ; but when the target came late in a word , reaction times were short . |
| 11 | ‘ The later varieties seem to be doing better , maybe because they escaped or because the bees were more active , ’ says Mr Smith . |
| 12 | From there they were accustomed to having something like a bird's-eye view , seeing their husbands and the other male members of their families not as the tall figures they were familiar with and on whom they relied but as the busy little children they often privately felt them to be . |
| 13 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 14 | T. D. Orange Lodges had their processions — be an occasional explosion when someone tried to dodge between you and they decided that once the procession started , nobody must cross the bows . |
| 15 | So they decided that once the christening party was in the hall which was gon na be three o'clock , they did n't stand much chance of erm |
| 16 | They feared that if the union fund was too heavily committed to payment of ‘ friendly benefits ’ , insufficient would remain in the fund to finance industrial action . |
| 17 | They feared that if the flood of immigrants continued , American values would be lost . |
| 18 | To managers of Banstead the policy was nothing but a hindrance and they felt that if the Department of Health insisted on the ancillary services of the hospital being offered to private tender , the process of counselling staff and keeping good industrial relations during the rundown would be railroaded . |
| 19 | There was no dispute about the fact that on 25 January 1990 , when the agreement was made , the Ledingham-Smiths could not pay their debts as they fell due , but they thought that if the business could be sold with an adequate payment for goodwill , all creditors would be paid in full . |
| 20 | It would be hard to fault anything they did and although the unit bears the fiddle player 's name , every member of the band was given his own chance to add a little something to the songs under Pierre 's subtle method of musical direction . |
| 21 | They said that as the law stands they have to prove the customer deliberately set out to defraud me . |
| 22 | The latter , who had helped clear a space and set up the seating , had so enjoyed it they said that if the vicar would make it an annual event he could count on their support , they would organise their outing to coincide with it . |
| 23 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 24 | Hess did not appreciate the significance of these strip reversals , but Vine and Matthews did , and they suggested that while the ‘ sea-floor spreading ’ concept was basically right , it could be refined and that instead of the simple kind of gigantic conveyor belt that Hess had conceived , with oceanic crust being generated at the ridges and moving away in opposite directions , the situation was much more like that of a conveyor belt-cum-tape recorder . |
| 25 | They suggested that if a policy of balancing a budget over the trade cycle still resulted in unacceptable high unemployment , then a permanent policy of deficit finance would be called for to provide extra jobs . |