Example sentences of "they [vb base] [conj] the [noun] " 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 | They fear that the Serbs may intensify their ethnic cleansing here too , by throwing more Albanians off their land to make room for Serbs . |
| 4 | People often avoid using too many straight lines in a garden as they fear that the end result will look clinical . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Job Centres allow employers to put age limits in the vacancies they display and the Government will not stop this practice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As is the labour so is the living ; for where the poor are full of work , they are never empty of wages ; they eat while the others starve , and have a tolerable plenty . |
| 9 | They grumble that the company 's membership of the British Franchise Association gave it a ring of confidence in which investors put their faith . |
| 10 | The parents stand guard on the eggs until they hatch and the fry reach , within a week , the free-swimming stage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They contend that the allocation of valuable property rights in information would be better left to private contractual negotiations rather than formal law . |
| 13 | But they insist that the money goes into their own pockets . |
| 14 | They insist that the forfeit of self-esteem must be paid . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They insist that the UN should condemn SWAPO 'S behaviour and hope that the incident will dent the movement 's fortunes in the election campaign . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Second , they stress that the pursuit of organizational goals is deeply implicated in the cause(s) of corporate crime . |
| 19 | That needs prophets who are usually stoned , which unless you choose to think that means they are high on drugs in an ecstatic vision , means , they suffer before the words become reality . |
| 20 | But the androids have developed their own emotional responses and therefore they suffer as the humans do . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They mean that the work team has replaced the hierarchy , that knowledge has replaced capital , that working lives involve tasks not careers . |
| 24 | However , they mean that the pilot has to be prepared for a possible launch failure or cable break on every flight . |
| 25 | And they can not expect the spread between the rates at which they borrow and the rates at which they lend to widen further , helping to pay for these lingering credit problems . |
| 26 | They urge that the law should enforce every promise . |
| 27 | have got totally banished , and , and they , they grow but the parents are being discriminating , because it pays the parent to discriminate and feed the ones who really need it , but pays the offspring to , to demand as much food as is possible . |
| 28 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 29 | Consumers of broadcasting must themselves decide what they want and the price they are willing to pay . |
| 30 | For such macro-systems , the principle that the designer produces what he thinks the users need is being replaced by the principle that the users themselves decide what they want and the professionals assist them in designing as specified by the users . |