Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | As always they lay exhausted in each other 's arms , their sated bodies languid and limp , Fernando soothing her fevered brow with tender kisses of love . |
| 3 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 4 | Conversely , they tend to converge in higher-status speech on a much narrower phonetic area , but are less responsive to environmental constraints . |
| 5 | Mothers and babies are suitable cases for treatment because they tend to stay in one place , there are only two subjects at a time , and their behaviour together is relatively stereotyped and uncomplicated . |
| 6 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 7 | They want to share in big-match atmosphere . ’ |
| 8 | This balance is important , since , for example , some accounts whose critical focus is the rise of the individual , private , property-owning self , almost appear to conspire with that reification of the self which they seek to criticize in contemporary culture , by isolating and concentrating on this single factor . |
| 9 | The Ekeko 's fair is where dreams and wishes are sold , where even the city 's poorest inhabitants can buy , in miniature , what they hope to obtain in real life during the course of the coming year . |
| 10 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 11 | In addition , at the level of somatic cell hybrid and FISH mapping , they seem to cluster in certain regions of the genome , and one such cluster was proposed for human chromosome 10 ( 12 ) in the pericentromeric region ( 5 ) . |
| 12 | The only thing they seem to have in common is their isolated nature and striking individuality , and they scream out to be included in a list of favourite miniature mountain gems . |
| 13 | If one picks out some of the chief things which are good , one may find that the one thing they seem to have in common is that they are pleasurable experiences . |
| 14 | The rocks beneath the castle , on account of the form they seem to have in high seas and foam , are called Macleod 's Maidens . |
| 15 | Where insects are preserved they seem to occur in large numbers and in variety , so that a few famous localities have yielded a disproportionate number of the fossil species . |
| 16 | They are erratically distributed around the planet , and the gases they emit vary in outgassed particular matter . |
| 17 | If they fear Chaos , they begin to mutate in horrible and painful ways . |
| 18 | They like living in clean hair . |
| 19 | In their more usual homes they like to live in huge colonies around cracks in the ocean floor where hot mineral rich larva or oil and gas leak from the sea bed . |
| 20 | If the sale is of part only of the land affected by the notice of deposit , a simple letter of consent to the transaction from the bank or other person protected by the notice , addressed to the Chief Land Registrar , is sufficient ; but some banks have their own form , which they like to use in such cases . |
| 21 | That 's , that 's true that , that 's what they do , they like rolling in all the mess in the |
| 22 | So they decided the test was n't valid and used computer simulations instead , where they get to punch in all the assumptions . ’ |
| 23 | Several staff have expressed concern about the high level of workplace stress they feel exists in some sections of the Library . |
| 24 | They continue to languish in legal limbo . |
| 25 | One lot of As holds that not only do girls succeed in primary school , they continue to succeed in secondary school . |
| 26 | They become schooled in that illogical negativism sometimes known as Logical Positivism , which says that statements about the world are either provable by observation or are capable of being deduced from facts supplied by reason or logic . |
| 27 | They become entangled in such a way that it is very rare for any to wriggle free , and while there is ample time to collect them at relative leisure they should nonetheless be collected as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | Is not it disgraceful that the Government are destroying living standards , yet they claim to believe in human values ? |
| 29 | Most of the time it falls on the troops from the sky , while they try to sleep in some half-filled trench . |
| 30 | But they do compete in advanced services like electronic mail and computer-data networks . |