Example sentences of "they [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are running a rally aimed at inspiring and motivating people , do n't start by having them arrive in a strange city to find the car park full , the nearest suitable alternative two miles away and no taxis available because it 's Sunday evening and pouring with rain . |
| 2 | Conversely , the same remedy may be used to treat several different clinical conditions if the patients suffering from them respond in a similar way to their illnesses . |
| 3 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 4 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 5 | Thirty yards back along the street they sit in a murky Cavalier . |
| 6 | If all the frogs pursue this policy , they sit in a tight clump . |
| 7 | Other birds of prey may also arouse strong responses if they sit in a conspicuous position during the daylight hours . |
| 8 | They insist in a new and serious appraisal of such ideas as radical liberalism/radical democracy , the community in the nation-state , the changing role of civil society ; in short , the form of the political self . |
| 9 | Even when they sleep in a separate room . |
| 10 | The convenience of major shopping developments and the wide range of goods and produce they provide in a concentrated location , must be judged in future against wider environmental and social criteria . |
| 11 | But let's have a look , as they say in a certain quiz show , at what he turned down . |
| 12 | he added , ‘ I know that has meant taking younger men as lifeboat crew to withstand the battering they receive in a heavy sea . |
| 13 | They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place . |
| 14 | ‘ If my players are written off , they react in a positive and aggressive manner . |
| 15 | Outside is a different matter — protective covers for the cabin and cowling are an excellent idea as long as they let in a free flow of air to minimise condensation . |
| 16 | They put in a tremendous physical effort in the second half . |
| 17 | At best , they put in a decent effort in executing the entrepreneurial hero 's grand design . |
| 18 | Soricid mandibles ( and skulls ) are more common , and because of the differences in mandibular anatomy , they break in a different way from rodent mandibles : the ascending ramus is composed of thickened bars of bone , with thinner bone in between , and it is these thinner areas that are broken initially , producing holes in the ramus ( Fig. 3.14 I-J ) while leaving the processes intact . |
| 19 | In Saintonge , however , they speak in a rustic fashion . |
| 20 | I look forward to seeing the amendments that will be tabled by my right hon. Friend for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and others when they look in a measured way at the Bill and seek to amend it to provide the support for the prison service that is so desperately needed . |
| 21 | The remarks probably refer to illness , but they stand in a metaphoric sense for the condition that Renaissance women usually confronted . |
| 22 | They adopt in a lively fashion the colours and shadows of the sky and the surrounding fells , on their rippling surfaces . |
| 23 | ‘ They want to share their happiness with everyone they know in a big celebration . ’ |
| 24 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 25 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 26 | They operate in a hard commercial environment . |
| 27 | The evidence suggests that they operate in a particular way , namely that there are predictable patterns in flows of support between older and younger generations , in which support flows in both directions , but on balance the older generation are the givers and the younger the receivers . |
| 28 | The Russians have said they believe in a negotiated settlement to the civil war , but they are continuing to supply arms to President Mengistu , apparently to allow him to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 29 | They believe in a humane rearing system for livestock , which is mindful of the needs of the animal in question , as well as the consumer . |
| 30 | However , I can not get excited by them ( and that applies to the passion they generate in a sexual as well as a moralistic sense ) and would certainly not ever describe them as sublime . |