Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A lot of them seem to have the whole class |
| 2 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 3 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 4 | Two other authorities , however , did indicate how they intend to reconcile the two systems . |
| 5 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 6 | More importantly , they advocate removing the overwhelming power of the central state to dictate , and leaving states , counties and cities to decide matters for themselves . |
| 7 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 8 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |
| 9 | Eliciting these principles from participants is complex , because they tend to give the prioritized principles . |
| 10 | People are what they are , but some acts are good , others bad , and legislators , reformers and ‘ moralists ’ should aim at organizing society so that human beings as they really are find themselves in circumstances where they tend to do the former . |
| 11 | They tend to overpower the spiky , inventive choreography . |
| 12 | The problem is that both ‘ knowing ’ and ‘ doing ’ seem largely to exclude the knower or doer from the equation ; they tend to excise the subjective , and direct attention away from it . |
| 13 | Speeches like Bob Giles ' are all very well but they tend to obliterate the cool thinking so necessary by those who hold positions of trust . |
| 14 | A further reason why such dichotomies as are embodied in the quantitative–qualitative distinction should not be allowed to dominate our thinking is that they tend to obscure the sheer and sometimes bewildering variety of materials that can qualify as data . |
| 15 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |
| 16 | They tend to assert the overwhelming desire for cognitive order , and thus offer an unrealistically cohesive model of cognition itself which ignores the problems of ideology and framing . |
| 17 | They tend to identify the common good with the interests , real or imagined , of their supporters . |
| 18 | When Ministers are faced with such unpalatable facts — and they are facts — they tend to blame the common agricultural policy , but those are domestic decisions . |
| 19 | One can imagine someone in a room looking at a beautiful painting , drinking in the details and the way in which they combine to constitute the lovely whole , and there being nothing beyond this observer and the object of his contemplation . |
| 20 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 21 | First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 22 | Councillors say grazing all year round is ruining the grass and they want to restrict the ancient rights of commoners . |
| 23 | They want to move the whole competition — lock , stock and barrel — out of the province entirely and turn in into the Jersey Milk Cup . |
| 24 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 25 | They want to regain the natural environments . |
| 26 | MPs will start debating these issues on the 17 of this month , two weeks before members of the old party have to make up their minds about whether they want to join the new ship . |
| 27 | But they got the main job done and now they want to do the same against Spain next month before heading to Belfast for a party . |
| 28 | If they want to climb the sheer slope , an I test ( Scale Sheer Surface +10 ) allows a character to head upwards D6+2 feet during the round ( only D6 for a Dwarf and D4 for a Halfling ) . |
| 29 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 30 | They want to avoid the sterile epistemological debates with which they think language is often involved . |