Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process . |
| 2 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact is they tend to watch TV after 9pm when they 're back from the pub . ’ |
| 4 | For small cichlids it is possible , for example , to use nylon net curtains as gravel tidies , but these would be no good when it comes to large cichlids as they tend to get hold of the soft material and pull it out of place . |
| 5 | They tend to regard grammar as the touchstone of all language performance . |
| 6 | In brief , he reports that as children of average and above-average ability mature as writers they tend to produce writing of increasing length ; they write longer and more complex sentences ; they employ a greater variety of clause types ; and they tend to use personal pronouns less . |
| 7 | They tend to focus attention on the state and the implications that flow from the capitalist economic base . |
| 8 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |
| 9 | They make electroplating equipment for other manufatcturers . |
| 10 | They want to use dance as a way in . |
| 11 | They want to use Belpan as a staging post . ’ |
| 12 | A heart has just become available for transplant , with a patient waiting for it , so they want to hold blood for that , and for the weekend , when they 're more likely to need it for trauma cases . |
| 13 | No fewer than 12 companies in the US say they want to put craft into space for this purpose . |
| 14 | Most people who arrange to work flexible hours do so because they want to spend time with their families , as well as pursue a career . |
| 15 | They want to turn Sberbank from a dowdy savings bank into a universal bank that can compete with the likes of Germany 's Deutsche Bank . |
| 16 | When human and reptile brains get together , they want to do harm from a position of safety . |
| 17 | Hampshire County Council are asking EHDC to drop their community complex plans for part of the Liss junior school site as they want to maximise income from the school 's sale to pay for the new school . |
| 18 | They want housing value for it , do n't they ? |
| 19 | They want to have confidence in what the professionals are doing for their children . |
| 20 | But since the majority were likely to leave sooner , it was argued , " they want to make money at once " . |
| 21 | They want to get nourishment from anything they can , including any characters entering . |
| 22 | Being aware of the ( external ) divergence between these cultures and ‘ mainstream ’ culture , they are anxious to avoid imposing what they call ‘ crude mainstream stereotypes ’ on to the interpretation of these internal systems : they want to get access to what the patterns of behaviour mean internally and how these are perceived by in-group members . |
| 23 | Some of these girlie fans must think that David is wonderful but I do n't think they want to grab hold of him and shag him to death . |
| 24 | Most of the children want the railway and are prepared to help with the survey , but a few want things to remain as they are , and they want to organise resistance to the coming of the railway . |
| 25 | Now they want to gain ownership of Wolvercote Common which has long been managed by a commoners committee . |
| 26 | For the second consecutive month , manufacturers indicate they expect to increase output in the next four months . |
| 27 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 28 | Naturally you will watch the person you are talking with to notice if they appear to have difficulty in hearing you because of background noise . |
| 29 | At two Best Western hotels , the Ivy House at Marlborough and the Spa at Tunbridge Wells , they propose to bide time with theme weekends on structuring a portfolio and sorting out options and warrants . |
| 30 | They provide breathing gas to the helmet , communications wires , the hot water hose ( this must not be used in air diving ) , a phunumofathometer ( used to obtain the divers ' depth ) , closed circuit television and light cables , and for mixed gas bell diving — a gas reclaim hose . |