Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're canned , they taste exactly the same , says Sly . |
| 2 | Anyway , they taste much the same , and last year beetroot soup was added to the menu . |
| 3 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 4 | Sadly , they lack both the elegant wit of the eastern intelligentsia and the street-irony of those who do not share their advantages . |
| 5 | They remain precisely the same . |
| 6 | representative : they enable all relevant interests to be involved in the decision-making process and they bring together the specialised knowledge of working people into a working combination ; |
| 7 | Nevertheless they made plain the painful contrast between the limited ‘ privileged ’ areas — the deep black soils of the Guadalquivir or the market gardens and orange groves of Valencia — and the parched , thin limestone and granite soils of the central tableland . |
| 8 | The poison develops a little time after the leaf has sprouted , so the monkeys can avoid the worst of it if they eat only the youngest leaves . |
| 9 | But they wiped away the national disgrace of Wednesday 's defeat to America 's soccer novices by outfighting one of the favourites to win next year 's World Cup here in the States . |
| 10 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 11 | Although this sounds obvious , it is quite remarkable how many returning nurses remark on the problems of adjustment they encounter once the initial ‘ honeymoon ’ period of returning is over . |
| 12 | Otherwise they say both the able bodied and the disabled will face severe problems . |
| 13 | They received much the same reaction as we did . |
| 14 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 15 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 16 | Did n't they do just the same with the Community Care Act ? |
| 17 | When unschooled children group the members of an array according to some such criterion as ‘ red ’ or ‘ round ’ , they reveal exactly the higher processes of ‘ abstraction ’ even if their language use stops short of explicitness . |
| 18 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 19 | They fulfilled rather the same role as extern sisters in contemplative convents today . |
| 20 | They look mostly the same breed of numbskulls who 've been mishandling the Allan Lamb case for a month . |
| 21 | They abolished both the metropolitan counties and the GLC . |
| 22 | The infectivity of these particles was expected since they incorporate both the antibody-envelope fusion protein and unmodified envelope protein which is also expressed abundantly in the retroviral packaging cell line . |
| 23 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 24 | F. When firms in the UK and the EEC want to expand their businesses with extra new branch factories they consider carefully the special advantages which there are in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Well they chain just the same way , just marks on it and |
| 26 | What is the point of doing that when they present precisely the opposite image in real life ? |
| 27 | They lump together the British miners , the American teamsters and Japanese ‘ company ’ unions . |
| 28 | These tremendous images … are not the whole of Christ 's teaching , but they set forth the supernatural mystery which is the heart of the teaching … . |
| 29 | The other screens showed that their ceptors were all right — but they displayed only the usual starpitted expanse of deep space . |
| 30 | Although , many appear in good spirits at the moment , most know that when they get home the grim reality of unemployment and the bitterness felt at being one of the unfortunates will set in . |