Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lenders fell into two camps , depending on how much they fear a further drying up of already moribund mortgage demand . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The reason KimberlyClark chose Humberside is because they got a higher level of grant aid . |
| 3 | After all , they got no further commission for such a service . |
| 4 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 5 | Literature classes with older people can be rewarding ; they bring a longer experience of life to bear on the subject , and often a wide range of reading . |
| 6 | These are similar to multiples except that the qualifying number of stores is five and they sell a wider range of merchandise . |
| 7 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But if they wanted to kidnap you , why did n't they make a better job of it ? ’ asked Jack . |
| 9 | Then in 1980 and again in 1983 ten-minute rule bills on this subject obtained second readings which approved the principle ; as is normally the case with such bills they made no further progress due to lack of parliamentary time . |
| 10 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
| 11 | In order to improve the broadcasting system and make it better able to resist political pressure — a prime duty of the libertarian/social responsibility media — they favour a wider range of representation on various broadcasting boards . |
| 12 | They favour a tougher approach . |
| 13 | Friendships become easier for young women in later adolescence as they develop a clearer sense of self identity . |
| 14 | In the nineteenth century they manned the lower ranges of the political structure by combining with their traditional municipal powers the electoral patronage of parliamentary government . |
| 15 | In the absence of the king , they sought a higher authentication of their rights . |
| 16 | On the BBC 's side they retained a further option to wind up any contract after eight weeks if they elected to replace an artist , or if the show was cancelled . |
| 17 | On Thursday , two of the four will return to Edinburgh to answer charges that they breached an earlier interdict banning them from inciting or organising mass pickets at the factory gates . |
| 18 | Ministers have told police chiefs they want a tighter control on informants following the bungled Special Branch operation at Brixton jail which was uncovered after the escape of IRA suspects Nessan Quinlivan and Pearse McCauley last summer . |
| 19 | They want a shorter working week , but are prepared to sit long and late while they are in London . |
| 20 | I imagine it must have been a cypress tree since they prune the lower branches leaving a swordlike edge sticking up . |
| 21 | They made council housing a priority , and they halved the housing , they promised a better deal for local government and ended up with the elderly freezing in their homes , rubbish piled in the streets and the dead unburied . |
| 22 | They regarded the higher officer ranks and the armed forces Chiefs of Staff as politically motivated and corrupt , accusing them of corruption and of being traitors to military ideals such as " national dignity " . |
| 23 | A little is known about the way the duns and the chapels with their carved slabs were used in medieval times but hardly anything about how they regarded the earlier standing stones . |
| 24 | A little is known about the way the duns and the chapels with their carved slabs were used in medieval times but hardly anything about how they regarded the earlier standing stones . |
| 25 | Both in Latin , they received much admiration when they entered the wider world . |
| 26 | Also linen is a more valuable product for which they charged a higher sale price . |
| 27 | Overall , they found a greater tendency to underpricing . |
| 28 | They found a closer association between GHQ scores and events when those events were categorised according to their emotionally distressing impact than according to change in lifestyle . |
| 29 | They provide a better range , so why reinvent the wheel ? ’ |
| 30 | Since to is not found with most auxiliaries , they provide a further test for the hypothesis that the bare infinitive implies the absence of a before-position with respect to the event it expresses , which will be the topic of the next chapter . |