Example sentences of "they [vb base] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear the proposed withdrawal from 17 May of some stops by ScotRail and InterCity will cause further deterioration in the service . |
| 2 | They dispute the economic argument , saying the economy would be strengthened by improving energy efficiency . |
| 3 | First year university students are often left bewildered by the challenge of having to organise much of their study time and find they lack the necessary reference skills to work effectively . |
| 4 | They lack the Catholic sense that it is scriptures together with the unfolding tradition of the church in which authority lies . |
| 5 | They lack the superficial coherence of a written constitution , but they bear a much closer relation to reality than bright ideas on a piece of paper . |
| 6 | Donegal carpets are very expensive , but , although they lack the proven track record of Spanish rugs , they may well become collectable in the future . |
| 7 | Yet as Comecon 's major source of hydrocarbons the countries have felt in recent years the strain of cutbacks in Soviet oil exports as well as what they consider to be unfair trading terms caused by rising costs which they lack the economic freedom to renegotiate . |
| 8 | Ldc ( less developed country ) borrowers have never been active in the international bond markets , as they lack the required credit quality and/or reputation . |
| 9 | Authoritative directives are often rules , and even when they are not , because they lack the required generality , the same reasoning applies to them . |
| 10 | Many also feel inadequate because they believe they lack the right qualifications . |
| 11 | The same management and work force face the challenges of the current position , but there is nothing to suggest that they lack the collective will , expertise or enterprise to negotiate a very successful future for themselves and their industry . |
| 12 | They lack the remote aspirations of human beings for which , presumably , a linguistic grasp of categories involving at least the present and future would be necessary . |
| 13 | First , they can not ( by a provision of the constitution ) sit as members of the Congress and therefore they lack the direct access that is available to the British Cabinet . |
| 14 | They may fail to understand or to make themselves understood because they lack the social knowledge which enables them to make text into discourse in the language they are learning . |
| 15 | In our marriage counselling we have met many who have a good understanding of how they should be treating their partner , but they lack the proper motivation . |
| 16 | They lack the pre-press capabilities of high-end packages , but are ideal for outputting to colour printers , or producing greyscale images for lasers . |
| 17 | But they lack the three essentials : they do not evolve , they do not process energy , and they can not be called organisms . |
| 18 | They highlight the false assumptions which underpin much social security provision . |
| 19 | Dragons love virgins , but they hate the creamy smell of female desire that will bring the young men to their caves , to steal and kill . |
| 20 | ‘ They hate the Communist regime , you know , ’ John continued . |
| 21 | But they hate the High Street . |
| 22 | But they hate the very word ‘ democrat ’ ! |
| 23 | It is still standard practice to give priority to boys ' education , particularly in families where economic resources are scarce , and illiteracy among women is 10% higher than for men.5 Girls are more likely to suffer from non-attendance , their drop-out rate is higher and they remain the low achievers . |
| 24 | This section focuses on solicitors since they remain the initial point of contact for those seeking legal services from the profession . |
| 25 | ‘ The prototypes will enable us to evaluate how the public receives multimedia systems and whether they bring the cultural advantages we 're seeking , ’ said LeCoz . |
| 26 | The result is an accumulation of beliefs , from purchasing people who believe they have the best sourcing to manufacturing people who believe they have the most cost-effective production ; from personnel people who believe they hire the best sales people to sales people who believe they sell the best products . |
| 27 | In primary schools , class teachers are expected to be polymaths and to devote 10 per cent of their time ( if they obey the official guidelines ) to teaching a detailed programme of religious and moral education . |
| 28 | They prick the unfertilized eggs into action , provoking them to develop into male beetles . |
| 29 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 30 | From the creative user 's point of view , the problem with ‘ lifestyle ’ approaches is that they attempt to generalize , and by generalizing they lose the fine detail that distinguishes habits and attitudes in any individual market . |