Example sentences of "they [vb base] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear that the cost of transport would go up , making life on their windswept islands even more expensive ( the same basket of goods costs £52.53 in Barra but £46.77 in Aberdeen ) . |
| 2 | Sometimes they fear that the strength of their passion will so endanger relationships which are important to them that they will shut down parts in themselves from which they believe the threat comes . |
| 3 | People often avoid using too many straight lines in a garden as they fear that the end result will look clinical . |
| 4 | They concede that the Church 's policy of rotating the Moderator every year can pose some difficulties for broadcasters and newspapers in terms of availability and profile , but they argue that this can be overcome and does not explain all the recent exclusions from discussions . |
| 5 | Job Centres allow employers to put age limits in the vacancies they display and the Government will not stop this practice . |
| 6 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
| 7 | They grumble that the company 's membership of the British Franchise Association gave it a ring of confidence in which investors put their faith . |
| 8 | Oh yeah no problem and as Tony was saying music sessions they tend if the session is good to forget about closing time you know official closing time . |
| 9 | They contend that the allocation of valuable property rights in information would be better left to private contractual negotiations rather than formal law . |
| 10 | But they insist that the money goes into their own pockets . |
| 11 | They insist that the forfeit of self-esteem must be paid . |
| 12 | And they insist that the decision to ban God Save The Queen , which has provoked a storm of patriotic protests , was not influenced by the ANC . |
| 13 | They insist that the president did understand the rudiments of economic theory and , despite an unusual propensity to delegate detail , made the crucial decisions himself . |
| 14 | Second , they stress that the pursuit of organizational goals is deeply implicated in the cause(s) of corporate crime . |
| 15 | When bankers say that a company is ‘ leveraged ’ , they mean that the company 's debt greatly exceeds the owners ' equity or share in the company . |
| 16 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
| 17 | They mean that the work team has replaced the hierarchy , that knowledge has replaced capital , that working lives involve tasks not careers . |
| 18 | However , they mean that the pilot has to be prepared for a possible launch failure or cable break on every flight . |
| 19 | They urge that the law should enforce every promise . |
| 20 | Consumers of broadcasting must themselves decide what they want and the price they are willing to pay . |
| 21 | Facts about woman 's access to contraception and the annual death toll of illegal abortion ; about the number of children they want and the number they lose to malnutrition and disease ; facts about rape , incest and infibulation . |
| 22 | Forms of thought are bounded ; they occupy but a portion of intellectual space . |
| 23 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 24 | Congregations will insist on hearing candidates preach sermons which may have taken weeks to prepare or to speak more correctly which some of them never prepared , whereas they forget that a man 's work in his own parish is the best possible testimony as to who and what he is , and one that can easily and accurately be ascertained . |
| 25 | They forget that the magic of television means that we 've probably heard it all before , so we really do make an effort to go for fresh material . |
| 26 | They recollect that the Secretary of State for Wales perfected the poll tax and boasted of its merits . |
| 27 | They propose that a bonus be paid which is based upon an approximation to the change in social welfare.4 Specifically , the " incentive component " of the managerial emolument package that they propose for period t is given by a function of the increase in profits and the decrease in price between period t-1 and period t : Such an area is represented in figure 4.5 by the shaded portion , as can be seen by noting that the first term represents the rectangle ABCD and the second , the area under the marginal cost curve unc between unc and unc ( i.e. the integral |
| 28 | They propose that the relationship between biological and social factors in explaining gender differences in mortality may vary over the lifecourse . |
| 29 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 30 | They suggest that a couple should be allowed to get divorced after one year without having to attribute blame for the split . |