Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly some will be unable to cope with this emphasis on self-management because they lack either the intelligence or perhaps , more importantly , the motivation to do so . |
| 2 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 3 | What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders . |
| 4 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 5 | But above all they bring home the fragility of human power to rescue us from despair and the absence of hope . |
| 6 | They bring home the inequality of material conditions : at the one extreme old men in filthy lodgings chopping a few sticks to keep warm , and at the other the lady of the manor supported by servants and a companion in her immaculate drawing-room . |
| 7 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 8 | But they raise again the issue of how one assesses the importance of different forms of organization within an economy and society , and especially in what sense , and when , it is possible to say that a particular form of organization dominates a system . |
| 9 | The biters are usually the easiest to detect because they eat away the foliage . |
| 10 | They cite instead a report by representatives of Ramsar , the international wetlands convention , which warns that extensive mining would be sure to cause irreparable damage to the area . |
| 11 | Most lampreys are filter-feeders as young and ectoparasitic blood-suckers as adults , whereas hagfishes are predators or they rasp away the flesh of dead or moribund fishes . |
| 12 | Processes which govern the ability of the terminal to respond during sustained activity , such as the synthesis of transmitter , the transport and filling of vesicles and their release from the cytoskeletal cage , will contribute to LTP only to the extent that they influence either the probability of fusion , or the amount of transmitter packed into vesicles . |
| 13 | Is the first offer that they make simply an opening shot ? |
| 14 | Straightforward examples can be seen at Brampton in Norfolk , where the extensive ribbon developments are confined to the junction itself and the main roads radiating east , south and west , and at Braintree , where they occupy only the west and south-west approach roads at the expense of the staggered road junction itself ( fig. 6A and B ) . |
| 15 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 16 | Erm then you know that would be something whereas if they say well the recession 's so bad we have n't taken anybody for the last five years and your researches ca n't unearth anybody who seems to be prepared to er give you even half a chance then I mean |
| 17 | They cover mainly the period since 1950 in order to allow for the full return to peacetime economic conditions which occurred largely during the reconstruction period after 1945 . |
| 18 | With the horses , they cause virtually no damage at all . |
| 19 | They feel a bit beleaguered here , and they cause quite a sensation when they walk about in the streets with their long hair ( the men , I mean ! ) . |
| 20 | They cost just a pound a copy to produce , so why do we pay so much for them in the shops ? |
| 21 | Brazil will fill Wembley next March and if they show just a fraction more ambition near goal it will be a night to remember . |
| 22 | They show well the difficulty of identifying ‘ old ’ roads . |
| 23 | Camcorder viewfinders are , in effect , miniature television screens , and they show both the scene as received by the camcorder lens and also the recorded picture when the machine is switched to playback . |
| 24 | The value of such studies is that they show plainly the ubiquity of popular political action , which may be diffuse , episodic , lacking any clearly formulated doctrine , or expressing itself mainly in religious or cultural terms , but always provides a matrix from which political organizations can emerge in favourable circumstances . |
| 25 | If a university takes further students , as nearly all have , they receive only the student fee , which is between £800 and £2500 less . |
| 26 | By 1978 British Rail and the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français ( SNC ) had started planning a single track rail tunnel for through rail services , commonly known as the Mousehole , and they put forward a plan to the governments in 1979 . |
| 27 | They put forward a number of suggestions . |
| 28 | They put forward the notion that we construct routine groupings of aspects of experience , schemata , which tend to occur regularly together . |
| 29 | They are alleged to send the ball further but I 'm not sure that they put even a yard on a shot . |
| 30 | ‘ They put together a group of people like Take That ! , who did n't even know each other until they formed — not that I 'm knocking them , because they 've got more front than we have — but it 's not going to work unless it 's real , ’ gripes Tony . |