Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time they are told they must shoulder bigger world responsibilities . |
| 2 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 3 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 4 | This is a designated training post for doctors starting out in their medical careers , during which they should acquire greater responsibility for patient care and competence in a wide range of general skills . |
| 5 | Because I do n't think wages for housework is the same thing as saying that when women have to give up their jobs when their kids are little , or if there are n't no nurseries , that they should have bigger family allowances , that is n't the same as saying wages for housework , is it ? |
| 6 | Accordingly , the subjects should get more ‘ choosy ’ with higher values of a or lower values of k , in the sense that they should have higher reservation values . |
| 7 | His plea is powerful ( Beck 1990:49 ) : teachers must become " intellectuals " to a greater extent than they typically are at present … they should have greater awareness of the interconnected theory that bears on both the content and method of their teaching . |
| 8 | Whereas in the past Catholic teaching had implied that all such matters should be left to God , however large a family one already had , the Council affirmed that ‘ parents themselves should ultimately make the judgement ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 50 ) as to whether or not they should have further children . |
| 9 | ‘ They should have longer prison sentences for drink drivers . |
| 10 | ‘ Then they 'll make better targets , ’ said Grimma , her eyes alight . |
| 11 | The theory is that the prisoners are in harmony with their surroundings and custodians , so they 'll become better citizens on their release . |
| 12 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |
| 13 | JS advertisements made it clear to customers they could expect higher standards from Sainsbury 's . |
| 14 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
| 15 | But he also reminded scientists that they could have greater influence by lobbying their local MPs . |
| 16 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 17 | Conservatives sometimes asserted that it was good for MPs to continue with other part-time occupations so that they could gain wider experience of society 's problems . |
| 18 | A few writers suggest that the Allies ( that is , the American OSS ) demanded his release so that they could get better reporting on the situation inside Vietnam than the aged Nguyen Hai Thanh , long absent from his own country , was able to provide . |
| 19 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 20 | They took such action as they could to prevent further distribution . |
| 21 | The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business , processed foods . |
| 22 | It apparently includes compilers , but hardware support is slim and they 'd like better graphics . |
| 23 | They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later . |
| 24 | On free afternoons they would choose quieter parts of the library and make towers , animals , castles , chairs and ski-slopes , all out of books . |
| 25 | Apparently , 48 per cent of manual workers believed that they would pay higher taxes under Labour , which speaks for itself . |
| 26 | Employees said that they would like further presentations and an opportunity to talk to the directors of other departments in the future . |
| 27 | He was reminded of the behaviour of domestic felines — how they would kidnap smaller creatures from the garden , take them into the house and then taunt them , keeping them alive until they starved or the cats became bored with the game . |
| 28 | Initially the males with slightly longer than average tails might have been fitter than average ; females who preferred to mate with them would have an advantage because they would produce better sons . |
| 29 | They would have greater freedom thus , she argued . |
| 30 | It is a common mistake to buy large trees in the belief that they will give quicker cover . |