Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when they became liable to pay the Poll Tax in Oxford . |
| 2 | Their problem seems to be that very often they appear content to conclude the negotiating process before a satisfactory outcome has been achieved . |
| 3 | They used this to estimate the loss in consumer surplus that would rise from adherence to a hypothetical uniform level of expenditure . |
| 4 | They say this reduces the likelihood of diseases like AIDS or hepatitis : |
| 5 | He will make us aware of the great hardships some people have to endure when they realise that to become a Catholic means making a tremendous sacrifice in their present lives . |
| 6 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
| 7 | And wilko was apparently pissed off that they let chappy have the pen . |
| 8 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 9 | A 15-minute purple patch in which they scored 19 points a 22–14 win Durham City . |
| 10 | A 15-minute purple patch in which they scored 19 points a 22–14 win Durham City . |
| 11 | And they 'd all took the long tours you know they really were interested |
| 12 | The Doctor had mentioned ionization when they 'd first entered the Operations Room ; ionization caused by electrical activity . |
| 13 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 14 | They 'd each think the other was taking him home . |
| 15 | Was it a case of KLM bringing pressure , for commercial reasons , on the RLD to accept the DC-10 , or did they feel unable to challenge the validity of the FAA certificate of airworthiness ? |
| 16 | They seem content to impose an unemployment tax on every family in Scotland to spend on keeping people on benefit , out of work and in dependency . ’ |
| 17 | When AFMs become more widely available , they seem sure to make a hit in biology . |
| 18 | Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break . |
| 19 | But no , they wear white to reflect the heat , or bright colours to show up . |
| 20 | They can then go on to order him to do such things as they consider necessary to effect the abatement . |
| 21 | Soon they feel able to involve the other sex in their idyll . |
| 22 | The family should be warned against condoning the patient 's anorexic behaviour , which they may do either because they feel unable to tolerate the patient 's anger or because they themselves gain vicarious gratification from the illness . |
| 23 | They needed four to make the rent affordable . |
| 24 | Their pay levels are threatened as they become unable to control the supply of labour into their profession : there is always a ‘ reserve army ’ of suitably qualified workers ready to step into their jobs . |
| 25 | Do n't buy it on it 's own when they go wrong costs a lot of money ! |
| 26 | They took this to mean a licence to torture and shoot . |
| 27 | But even had they sought to do otherwise , they felt obliged to fill the ‘ blind-alley ’ vacancies if only because employers would always manage to find workers for this type of employment however much the exchanges tried to frustrate them . |
| 28 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 29 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 30 | When he did n't , they grew worried thinking the beast was planning something really terrible . |