Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of fruit with no artificial preservatives or colourings , they taste just like home-made jam . |
| 2 | Further , being at or near the top , these persons are those most strongly identified with the goals of the organization … they believe in the , organization , they want to attain its goals , they profit personally from such goal attainment . |
| 3 | Ultimately they contract further into molecular structures , into great dark swirling spheres that form the basis of young star-field systems . |
| 4 | The lunchtime ceremony was introduced by Chris Green , InterCity 's managing director , who recalled the backing that The Scotsman had given the railways in their early days , and pointed out the multi-million pound contribution they make today to Anglo-Scottish business . |
| 5 | They grow best in cool , damp conditions , and will continue growth well into the autumn . |
| 6 | These are all techniques by which families can be helped to understand the way they interact together by practical , visual means . |
| 7 | THE generally held belief that the marriage of Diana and Charles has broken down seems to depend on photographs of the couple on the few occasions on which they appear together in public . |
| 8 | Bangladeshi babies are thought to be vulnerable , and they sleep close to other people both day and night ; at night they are either in the mother 's bed or in a cot next to it , a practice also reported by Farooqi et al . |
| 9 | They read them and yes they send away to several and then you have to score , you have to have something better than somebody else . |
| 10 | Narrow-winged , small and compact , they fly powerfully with rapid wing-beats , sometimes planing over the water like hydrofoils ; in hunting they dive and use their wings for propulsion under water , feeding mostly on plankton and small fish ( Nettleship and Birkhead , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | As a result of this work , Quinn argues that , while formal ( i.e. rational , in the sense defined above ) planning systems serve useful purposes , they focus unduly upon measurable quantities and underemphasize ‘ the vital qualitative organizational and power-behavioral factors that so often determine strategic success ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 12 | However , most sufferers from addictive disease are nonetheless in full employment and often ( in order to protect the supply of money for alcohol or drugs ) they cling desperately to that employment while progressively losing everything else of value in their lives . |
| 13 | For a sufficient income they depend also on some fishing and the sale to tourists of vegetables , milk and craft products . |
| 14 | They depend heavily on local mutual aid and are staffed largely by volunteers . |
| 15 | When they descend to the forest floor they walk awkwardly on all fours , treading on the sides of their clenched feet and placing their hands on the ground . |
| 16 | Roughly how many more steps does the boy have to take if they walk together for half a kilometre ? |
| 17 | However , the cows are hardy sucklers and economic feeders ; they breed regularly for many years on extensive systems and are said to ‘ age gracefully ’ . |
| 18 | Having consulted a colleague in the USA , he has now found that they breed best in fresh water ) the hard water of his Lincolnshire home being ideal . ) |
| 19 | However , competent windsurfers do have the chance to join dinghy groups when they sail away to other beaches . |
| 20 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 21 | You see , we are talking about people who do n't even move their hands for days on end , then a PAT dog comes in and they stroke eagerly with both hands . ’ |
| 22 | It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor 's department before they speak extrajudicially in public . |
| 23 | He made an attempt on Crilly 's life with a pocket knife once ; but now they speak amicably to one another , they just do n't seem to remember . |
| 24 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 25 | They lie mutely beside one another . |
| 26 | She found that they vary independently of each other which suggests that at least one of the inversions is on one of the 8 metacentric pairs not involved in the numerical variability ( C. R. Bantock , personal communication ) . |
| 27 | New paintings though lately they seem more like coloured sculptures fixed to the wall by Elizabeth Murray are at Paula Cooper until the end of the month and Pat Adams , whose abstractions seem to result from a collision of the macro- and micro-cosmic , is at Zabriskie with twenty new paintings beginning 15 April and continuing until 15 May . |
| 28 | They look forward to other assistance from Europe in respect of the social charter . |
| 29 | His bosses , the directors , say they look forward to next year , when they expect new business to increase . |
| 30 | They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues . |