Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 2 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 3 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 4 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 5 | The Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela signed accords on energy , transport and communications and announced that they planned to create a free-trade zone between their countries by mid-1994 . |
| 6 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ People can see how across there Israeli politicians fight each other in parliament , and in Greece they bring to account a corrupt prime minister . ’ |
| 8 | Guillaume ( 1984 : 120ff ) shows that all substantives , adjectives , adverbs and verbs are inherently predicative because they bring to mind a lexical notion which has to be said about something in order for the word to perform its function in discourse . |
| 9 | In 1946 , however , they agreed to establish a Scandinavian Committee for Legislative Cooperation . |
| 10 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 11 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 12 | The Directors of AW announce that , in the absence of unforeseen circumstances , they intend to announce a final dividend of not less than 6.5p per share in respect of the financial year ending 31 December 1985 . |
| 13 | They intend to keep a tight grip on the demand for the bread and butter work boots , worn by thousands of postmen and bobbies on the beat . |
| 14 | Right wing soldiers in the Philippines have written to national newspapers saying they intend to launch a bloodless coup against President Corizon Aquino , and to replace her with a military junta . |
| 15 | They intend to build a socialist state , and the revolution which they have begun is irreversible . |
| 16 | It is strange , therefore , that in this Queen 's Speech the Government say that they intend to introduce a new Local Government Finance Bill to abolish what they did in 1987-88 . |
| 17 | In order to override that , they intend to introduce a statutory instrument . |
| 18 | In consequence , they tend to see a simple one-to-one relation between attitudes , interests , and group organisation , and so they take the interest group world as a given that arises " naturally " in a way that calls for no complicated explanation . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed by the plethora of studies made of the phenomenon that : ( a ) they have been rapidly growing ; ( b ) they are most common in Europe ( see Table 7.4 ) ; ( c ) they are strongly related to the upper income bracket ( Bielckus et al , 1972 ) ; ( d ) they are concentrated in the more scenically attractive areas , and within these a contagious process can lead to further concentration ( Thissen , 1978 ) ; ( e ) they tend to form a further ripple of urbanization beyond the immediate commuter belt of big cities ( Boyer , 1980 ) ; and ( f ) they are also relatively and increasingly absolutely important in upland and mountainous areas ( Cribier , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Often the councillors are the same people who have gone to live in the pleasanter parts of rural England for peace and quiet , and they tend to take a dim view if local farmers apply for licences to run money-earning , but intrusive , leisure pursuits such as motor bike scrambling , model aeroplane clubs , clay pigeon shooting , go-carting and jet skiing . |
| 21 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |
| 22 | Right , if we broaden the number of commodities , and recognize that er , farming is a multi-product enterprise , alright , farmers just do n't produce one produce , alright , they tend to produce a whole range of products , and therefore we 've got to accommodate these inter-relationships between prices of barley , prices of wheat , prices of oil seed rape , s and er , and so on and so forth , and there can be a nu a number of fairly complex inter-relationships er , there . |
| 23 | Indeed , they tend to have a higher net output per employee than two of the major non-assisted areas ( the east Midlands and the West Midlands ) though the South-East and also East Anglia had higher productivity than all the assisted areas in 1971 . |
| 24 | They tend to have a distinctive , pungent flavour and are quite different from other cheeses . |
| 25 | Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood . |
| 26 | In times of trouble , therefore , they tend to keep a bigger share of their portfolio at home and sell some foreign assets . |
| 27 | They sought to impose a single currency on all Community states . |
| 28 | And she was initially awed by the plots which the girls concocted as they sought to shame a particular teacher or fellow pupil , or simply to escape at impermissible hours from the school grounds . |
| 29 | Managers might not borrow as much as they should , on paper , if they want to retain a large reserve of borrowing power in case of problems . |
| 30 | They want to destroy a sensible cost-free control system at the same time as they are introducing elaborate supply controls in all other important sectors of agriculture . |