Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 2 | So that when they sit facing each other on either side of their fire-place , both grins take off in the direction of the mantelpiece , as if drawn by the draught . |
| 3 | The event is organised by Greenpeace in a bid to stop whaling and campaign against Norwegians who have announced they intend to resume commercial whaling this summer . |
| 4 | Thirdly , they tend to see human behaviour as shaped by the system . |
| 5 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |
| 6 | They tend to use formal information systems through assistants and secretaries who act as preliminary filters . |
| 7 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 8 | They tend to take existing tranquility for granted — until it has gone . ’ |
| 9 | She said : ‘ The purpose of the grant is to extend choices for working parents , mainly women since they tend to take most responsibility for childcare . |
| 10 | Random sampling , it can be argued , makes rather few concessions to the fact that human populations are not normally socially well-mixed : indeed , they tend to develop distinct homogeneity within subgroups . |
| 11 | This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising . |
| 12 | In particular , they tend to find collective expression , as with the medieval dances of St John and St Vitus ; the wild and orgiastic festivities of ancient near-Eastern religion , with their song and dance and sexual licence ; and , in Greece , the choruses that sang and danced in the worship of the fertility god , Dionysus . |
| 13 | And , as people get older , they tend to attach greater significance to the home in providing such security . |
| 14 | ‘ What is advantageous about cheaper guitars is that they tend to have one sound , and when you plug 'em in you either like the sound or you do n't . |
| 15 | Character models are less likely to be hit as they tend to have higher initiative values . |
| 16 | They tend to have more empathy towards anything foreign and are more aware of language learning difficulties — having struggled to master English to a fairly high level . |
| 17 | ‘ Most people consolidate their information periodically and report it on a monthly basis : they tend to have huge consolidation exercises that go on for days . |
| 18 | Although they tend to fit one pencil size only , there are rather more expensive holders available for use with wide pencils and industrial chalks which may be of some help to artists . |
| 19 | They mean to succeed this time . |
| 20 | The queen has graciously consented to open her London house to the public for two months every summer , and they want to sample royal glasnost before the offer expires , at the end of 1997 . |
| 21 | David Fullerton , of the Sierra Club , an environmental lobby group , says : ‘ They want to use new technology or more water while we want them to talk about the crops they 're growing . ’ |
| 22 | However , once Governments of either party know that they will complete a Bill on a certain day , they hand much of the power over to the Opposition to decide how they want to use that time to debate the proper timing and clauses . |
| 23 | They want to use less fuel and cause less pollution , but at the same time recoil from too many sacrifices in terms of comfort and performance . |
| 24 | If they want to create that sort of society , |
| 25 | They want to own each other . |
| 26 | ‘ A small minority of Members of Parliament after these weeks and months of debate have still been unable to tell us what they want , where they want to lead this country and who is going with them . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They want to see economic development in the local area for them ’ . |
| 28 | They want to see financial pressure applied , to ensure South Africa can not roll over its debt or raise new capital . |
| 29 | Scientists , he said , must explain to the public what they are doing if they want to receive continued support . |
| 30 | They want to replace ineffective reaction to the symptoms of trouble with positive action aimed at the roots of the problem . |