Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 2 | Because migrant populations are frequently recruited as low-paid workers , they tend in many countries to cluster in the poor areas of inner cities near to their workplaces , and to be concentrated in low-status occupations . |
| 3 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 4 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |
| 5 | The audience recognise physical movement for itself alone whereas those who theorise and attempt to define what they mean by such terms as post or neo-modern , contemporary , avant-garde , etc. base their works on intellectual concepts which need to be discussed in words . |
| 6 | Languages therefore differ widely in the way they are equipped to handle various notions and express various aspects of experience , possibly because they differ in the degree of importance or relevance that they attach to such aspects of experience . |
| 7 | It is possible , however , to classify most British political leaders according to the relative importance they attach to these values . |
| 8 | For both ways of life and for both sets of values , excluders and includers , the language of ‘ coping ’ and ‘ coming to terms ’ describes the transition between one world and another world ; this much they agree on , even if the values they attach to these worlds are totally opposite . |
| 9 | The one thing that seems to be identified by members of the public er when they come here and address present erm petitions to us as they did this morning er they want in most parts , in Hertfordshire . |
| 10 | The motivation to perform is seen as a function of the beliefs that individuals have concerning future rewards multiplied by the value they place on those rewards . |
| 11 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 12 | You know they sleep with both eyes open and a rifle under the pillow-not to mention the fact that it 's still lambing season and most of them will be up all night ! |
| 13 | And what the folks had done , with their quarterly newsletter that they send to both villages , North and South , on the back , they 'd put a form requesting that every household submitted their five favourite hymns . |
| 14 | I thanked her for the dance and Werewolf bowed deeply to her ‘ girlfriend ’ ( Oxnard , California ) , which made her day , as they say in those parts . |
| 15 | They lose their nous ( and , as they say in some quarters , their ‘ bottle ’ ) . |
| 16 | One month later Baggio was , as they say in these parts , ‘ re-dimensioned ’ . |
| 17 | We have heard many times why that has not been possible and it 's no good crying over spilt milk , as they say in these parts . |
| 18 | They depend on many factors , and it is not possible to give a full account of them here ; you will find details in Refs [ 17 ] and [ 18 ] . |
| 19 | Some women are said to be ‘ dangerous ’ if they act as many men do all the time . |
| 20 | Claudia called for champagne and someone else suggested they put on some records and dance in the hall . |
| 21 | On the whole , people use language in a , in a rather sloppy form , it 's ambiguous , they , they know what they mean , other people know what they mean but they put in all sorts of inferences by the way in which it 's phrased or erm the way in which the words string together or past experience of the person . |
| 22 | In a similar fashion large companies frequently reduce the cash element or where they supply materials to be processed by subcontractors , increase the prices they charge for these materials . |
| 23 | She says they bark at all times of day and night . |
| 24 | They attack from all sides , nice neat passing — direct — create chances etc etc. they do nt give the other side a chance to breathe . |
| 25 | THEY JUMP TO THESE CONCLUSIONS |
| 26 | They jump to these conclusions and these conclusions are passed round in the staffroom . |
| 27 | They travel from all parts of the U.K. It is not a recruiting exercise . |
| 28 | They happen in all interviews . |
| 29 | Unlike singular statements , they refer to all events of a particular kind at all places and at all times . |
| 30 | They contrast with such attitudes as we are content to leave as our own merely personal inclinations and which are therefore not given the dignity of expression in a statement . |