Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 2 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 3 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 4 | Possibly they are apt to become too ambitious — they rarely succumb to the disease of ‘ fontitis ’ but are only too apt to have bad attacks of ‘ linkitis ’ and ‘ activitis ’ . |
| 5 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 6 | It is no surprise they all have bright red noses , for their two great loves are tobacco and whisky ; they rarely appear without a pipe and are known to raid cellars , particularly favouring homemade ale . |
| 7 | The politicking between the ruwatu is kept at a relatively low-key level , for they rarely meet as a group . |
| 8 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 9 | In short , they do not begin with a question and seek an answer ; they rather start with an answer and devise a corresponding question . |
| 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 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
| 12 | The world has an image of this country as democratic , the Switzerland of Central America , and when the tourists come , they only go to the beautiful parts , but they do n't go to other parts like Batan , Limón , Los Chiles , the peasant [ communities ] in the southern zone , where people live in difficult situations . |
| 13 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 14 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 15 | In 1986–7 , an NCT survey found 70 active milk banks ; now they only know of a handful . |
| 16 | In other words , they only respond to the differential of input signal waveforms to create single transistor hi-pass filters . |
| 17 | Now , these are examples of positional isomers just using ordinary groups they only differ in the position of those functional groups , sorry , of those groups . |
| 18 | They only differ in the position of that O H group . |
| 19 | " They only come to the Tominah 's singing , " they said . |
| 20 | They only come to the surface after dark , and so you 'd never know you had then without a torch . |
| 21 | No , well there were n't much to see if your hopper was full , you ai n't got far to go cos they only come about a foot off side , you see you could just kneel down there and catch 'em . |
| 22 | But without proper government action , they only scratch at the problem . |
| 23 | They only care about the money . |
| 24 | Typical quotes were : ‘ They only work in the nuclear industry ’ . |
| 25 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 26 | ‘ We need people to talk to , people who will listen to us and understand our real needs — and that 's not just pills and psychiatric treatment , they only deal with the depression . |
| 27 | They only appeal to a few , and some people are repelled by them . |
| 28 | What is more , even when the valves of a really large specimen are fully closed , they only meet at the spikes on the edge . |
| 29 | She said they only look at the car 's registration number . |
| 30 | Cos my feeling is t they only look at the pictures , |