Example sentences of "they [vb base] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
| 2 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 3 | They grin at the idea , crinkling their noses in mock distaste , suggesting that the monastic life holds no attraction for them . |
| 4 | No doubt they sit at the table , plotting and planning , making arrangements . |
| 5 | But they swarm at the windows in such numbers they black out the light and the air . |
| 6 | They tear at the patterns on one another 's fins . |
| 7 | These guys do n't blow women away ( in fact they flinch at the sight of guns ) but they exclude the opposite sex from their inner life . |
| 8 | ‘ And if they flinch at the sight of the salt , there are persuasions I can use . ’ |
| 9 | It is disappointing that South Saxon charters for these years are frequently of doubtful authenticity , if not entirely spurious , but they hint at a sequence of events similar to those in Kent . |
| 10 | The pictures in the book are a useful stimulus because they hint at the disasters and yet allow the children to flesh out the world of the carpenters , the gardeners , the cooks , the soldiers , the furniture makers ( perhaps using small pieces of fabric to indicate who they are ) . |
| 11 | Right they 're getting everything they want at the moment because erm er ease the situation . |
| 12 | Many lecturers ( who are seldom trained educationalists ) do not realise the importance of this statement , and announce their topics only when they appear at the lectern . |
| 13 | There are three Wraithwisps for each adventurer , and they appear at the rate of four per round . |
| 14 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 15 | A GALAXY of the rock world 's biggest stars will shine tonight when they appear at the pop world 's most spectacular prize giving ceremony . |
| 16 | So what I 'm proposing is that we write to er Mick and erm Richard , asking what powers and responsibilities that they propose at the moment to devolve to Southwell . |
| 17 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 18 | As the larger chart shows , two of the three issues on which the Tories ' most improved their position between mid-March and Thursday were inflation and taxation — the issues they put at the heart of their propaganda effort . |
| 19 | They stop at a motorway services . |
| 20 | They 'll be lucky if they stop at the Horseshoe . |
| 21 | Among other things , this opens up the multiculturalists and antiracists to the very charge of propaganda and indoctrination which they level at the textbooks , authors and teachers they are attempting to challenge . |
| 22 | Like the question of corporal punishment and school uniform , they lie at the heart of the parent–state conflict which flows from a disharmony between individual parental choice and the collectivist focus of the state . |
| 23 | For surely they lie at the heart of higher education . |
| 24 | One would therefore have to believe that many or most of the observed particles such as gluons or quarks are not really elementary , as they seem at the moment , but that they are bound states of the fundamental N = 8 particles . |
| 25 | But they cringe at the idea that someone else may benefit at their expense . |
| 26 | because I , the doctors I work for they have opted out , they are what they call it fund holding , they 've got their own budget , they 've got a , they 've got a practice manager and its run as a business and they look at every thing and any profits that they get are ploughed back into the G P's surgery and er , and they improve the surgery facilities for the patience , and it will be a better service , but I mean how can Labour come in and then say right you 're not doing that , how can they undo it |
| 27 | The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time . |
| 28 | if they 're saying there are no restrictions , cos they can not , they simply can not give there good clearance if there was something which is something of a restriction of competition , they must give exemption , they have no jurisdiction to do anything else , if they look at a clause and say |
| 29 | They look at a map , draw a line and produce leaflets but nothing is done on the ground to withstand the pressure of hundreds of people following the route . |
| 30 | Government ministers seem to think that they look at a pile of brochures . |