Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 2 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 3 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 4 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 5 | There are still some hundred students in the hall , but most of them manage to flee through the kitchens or the far door near the Polytechnique 's main entrance . |
| 6 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 7 | In addition , models differ as to the nature of the specialization which they postulate to occur for the two hemispheres . |
| 8 | Other protestors , including the Cleveland-based Neon , also gave details of the evidence they intend to give at the inquiry . |
| 9 | We keep asking questions about the Opposition 's investment plans : how much they intend to give to the British Technology Group , regional development agencies and investment trusts . |
| 10 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 11 | House builders were this week accused of going back on their word by increasing the number of homes they intend to build on a Darlington estate . |
| 12 | The begetters of the whole event are artist Chris Garratt and writer Mick Kidd , who will be running a practical workshop in the Dovecot tomorrow , when they intend to work to a deadline to produce a complete comic strip . |
| 13 | Caremore Council believe that Paul has been sexually abusing Jane and they intend to apply for a care order . |
| 14 | ‘ When clients have gone to a firm and believe that they have been treated badly , they tend to complain against the firm , not the engagement partner , and are surprised when the Institute tells them that they can not do so , ’ said Elwyn Eilledge , head of the working party . |
| 15 | However , paper labels should not be used for those sections destined for use in cathodoluminescence and scanning electron microscopes or microprobe , as they tend to char in the beam and may interfere with conductive coatings . |
| 16 | The Tory counter-attack will be to remind London voters that , since they tend to earn above the national average , more of them will suffer from higher Labour taxes . |
| 17 | They tend to fall within a broad category of exploitation , a genre characterised by a simplistic ethos of violent action . |
| 18 | They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock , to keep down inventory levels . |
| 19 | They tend to sleep in the afternoons . ’ |
| 20 | 1p. 61 ) That is , they tend to move between a claim as to how we do in fact conceive of causation and a recommendation as to how we ought to conceive of it . |
| 21 | On the contrary they tend to move from a state of relative disorder to one of greater order . |
| 22 | The inability , so far , to properly confront issues of race is largely due to the huge number of white volunteers who simply find it too painful to accept that , because of their culture and upbringing , they tend to behave in a racist manner . |
| 23 | They tend to advertise in the appropriate specialist hobbies press and through the medium of direct mail . |
| 24 | Frayed laces make tying very difficult ( and they tend to get into a knot ) , so put a little nail varnish or some tape on the ends or buy some new , novelty laces ! |
| 25 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 26 | Therefore , they tend to look for a certain ‘ type ’ . |
| 27 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 28 | Due to their crusading streak , newspapers have been valuable in discussing the achievements of the mentally handicapped , but again they tend to focus on the sensational . |
| 29 | ‘ They live , or they 're supposed to live , in the paddock between the Rectory and the House , but the fencing needs seeing to , so they tend to wander round the Rectory when they want . |
| 30 | Because police procedurals , though they tend to have from the nature of their subject matter rather more social content than the straight murder puzzle , are still books written primarily as entertainment . |