Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People can see how across there Israeli politicians fight each other in parliament , and in Greece they bring to account a corrupt prime minister . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 4 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Two other authorities , however , did indicate how they intend to reconcile the two systems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They intend to build a socialist state , and the revolution which they have begun is irreversible . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In order to override that , they intend to introduce a statutory instrument . |
| 13 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 14 | More importantly , they advocate removing the overwhelming power of the central state to dictate , and leaving states , counties and cities to decide matters for themselves . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 17 | They tend to receive an unsatisfactory education , harbour poor employment prospects and have few ways of creating a positive self-concept . |
| 18 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |
| 19 | Eliciting these principles from participants is complex , because they tend to give the prioritized principles . |
| 20 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 21 | People are what they are , but some acts are good , others bad , and legislators , reformers and ‘ moralists ’ should aim at organizing society so that human beings as they really are find themselves in circumstances where they tend to do the former . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | They tend to overpower the spiky , inventive choreography . |
| 24 | The problem is that both ‘ knowing ’ and ‘ doing ’ seem largely to exclude the knower or doer from the equation ; they tend to excise the subjective , and direct attention away from it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Speeches like Bob Giles ' are all very well but they tend to obliterate the cool thinking so necessary by those who hold positions of trust . |
| 27 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A further reason why such dichotomies as are embodied in the quantitative–qualitative distinction should not be allowed to dominate our thinking is that they tend to obscure the sheer and sometimes bewildering variety of materials that can qualify as data . |
| 30 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |