Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly some will be unable to cope with this emphasis on self-management because they lack either the intelligence or perhaps , more importantly , the motivation to do so . |
| 2 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 3 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 4 | What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders . |
| 5 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 6 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 7 | these wee pencil brushes that colouring in bring out different er sort of , you know , knots and you know they bring in the pencil |
| 8 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 9 | But above all they bring home the fragility of human power to rescue us from despair and the absence of hope . |
| 10 | They bring home the inequality of material conditions : at the one extreme old men in filthy lodgings chopping a few sticks to keep warm , and at the other the lady of the manor supported by servants and a companion in her immaculate drawing-room . |
| 11 | ‘ These little publishers always say that when they bring out a book everyone else rejected as uncommercial . |
| 12 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 13 | But they raise again the issue of how one assesses the importance of different forms of organization within an economy and society , and especially in what sense , and when , it is possible to say that a particular form of organization dominates a system . |
| 14 | The biters are usually the easiest to detect because they eat away the foliage . |
| 15 | They cite instead a report by representatives of Ramsar , the international wetlands convention , which warns that extensive mining would be sure to cause irreparable damage to the area . |
| 16 | Most lampreys are filter-feeders as young and ectoparasitic blood-suckers as adults , whereas hagfishes are predators or they rasp away the flesh of dead or moribund fishes . |
| 17 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 18 | The next Friday they load up the bus and set off for Oxford . |
| 19 | Also , the z-axis is invariant under the flow , so any periodic orbits in the system can be partially described by an integer n specifying the number of times that they wind around the z-axis . |
| 20 | The warders and the trusties from Internal Order are at the doors of the huts , and the zeks are pitched out into the night darkness and spill to the perimeter path , and like an ant trail they wind around the compound for what is classified as Exercise . |
| 21 | Alert for scraps of anything edible , they congregate around the slaughterhouse or sewer outlets and they probably deserve their local name of ‘ stinker ’ ! |
| 22 | Processes which govern the ability of the terminal to respond during sustained activity , such as the synthesis of transmitter , the transport and filling of vesicles and their release from the cytoskeletal cage , will contribute to LTP only to the extent that they influence either the probability of fusion , or the amount of transmitter packed into vesicles . |
| 23 | They tear out the truth . |
| 24 | And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters . |
| 25 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 26 | They make up a group of institutions which has been described as the ‘ third force ’ in higher education , alongside the universities and polytechnics , and are known variously as colleges of higher education , institutes of higher education , colleges of education or just plain colleges . |
| 27 | Ultimate control in a company rests in its members ; they make up the company . |
| 28 | They make up the rest of their programme by choosing two options from Advanced Performance , All-round Performance , Performance , Analytical Theory , Composition , Studies in Polyphony , Popular Music in Contemporary America , or a Special Topic . |
| 29 | Derby paid £800,000 for the England under-21 international with fellow strikers Phil Gee and Ian Ormondroyd moving to Filbert Street as they make up the rest of the deal . |
| 30 | I like the way they splice on their headstocks ( almost invisibly underneath the headstock facing ) but not the way they make up the depth of the heel with a very different-coloured piece of mahogany — although I suppose some people might . |