Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thereby avoid commitment to any current fad that comes up on the whirligig of fashion . |
| 2 | Such figures as we have need careful scrutiny , because they rarely take account of those who came back . |
| 3 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 4 | Males may spar and even fight when confined in a small aquarium without sufficient territory being available to the individuals , but they rarely cause trouble with other species . |
| 5 | The Schools Council 's early projects have been criticized in that they rarely took account of the context of the individual institutions where change was sought and ignored the fact that there was little consensus amongst teachers about the value of change anyway ( Becher and Maclure , 1978 ; Kelly , 1982 ; Richards , 1983 ; Cassidy , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | It is to the credit of such workers that they rarely feel animosity towards a member of the Royal Family who puts on a designer frock , gets into a chauffeur-driven car , spends a couple of hours meeting the afflicted and , as a result , has her picture on the front page of most national newspapers with the word caring prefacing every mention of her name . |
| 7 | Apart from the Heads of Units , they rarely have contact with other similar services . |
| 8 | They rarely meet opposition from the village militia , who have no training and not enough ammunition to put up a fight even if they wanted to . |
| 9 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 10 | And they only get advantage of getting |
| 11 | ‘ They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’ |
| 12 | These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side . |
| 13 | Well they only started tarmacadam in nineteen thirty six . |
| 14 | The taps at Chacombe House have now all been fixed so they only produce water at less than forty-three degrees centigrade . |
| 15 | This time round they were told they would not be able to enter the National Federation of Meat Traders bi-annual sausage competition at Harrogate as one of the sponsors , the Meat and Livestock Commission , held that they only provided sponsorship for mainland competitors . |
| 16 | And I will go on stressing that because traditional musicians have this traditional training in university music departments and music colleges , and they become isolated ; they only have contact with Western Art Music , you know . |
| 17 | er they only pay sort of one and a half or twice that 's the , that 's the purpose of the Tories |
| 18 | ‘ They rightly want input into what their children are taught . |
| 19 | Thus one exalts facts , the other the imagination ; both conceal the extent to which they necessarily make use of the other 's procedures . |
| 20 | When the Report was sent to Mrs Thatcher 's office with summaries and references prepared by the civil servants at the DES , they naturally drew attention to our firm proposals for the teaching of spelling , punctuation , grammar and written and spoken Standard English . |
| 21 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 22 | There is of course a continuing controversy over whether the bureaucratic bourgeoisie of senior military , civil , party , co-operative and industrial administrators constitute a distinct class ; or whether they merely form part of a larger and more differentiated social stratum ; whether such a class is dominant or subservient to metropolitan capital ; where the boundary around such a class should be drawn ; whether it is fully formed or not , and whether the power of the state is equivalent to the power of the bureaucracy as a social entity ( Murray 1967 ; Leys 1976 ; Zieman and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 23 | They ca n't put raiders on , radars on you , they just keep track of what you 're doing every day |
| 24 | No they just put chipboard behind it so it stays there . |
| 25 | They say it 's too soon considering that they just started work with Bull on them , as we ourselves noted . |
| 26 | And they just work shadow for two weeks . |
| 27 | They nevertheless had difficulty in hiding their satisfied smiles . |
| 28 | This means that when the raw materials are reduced to fibre ready for re-spinning , they already have colour in them . |
| 29 | They already have support on the college radio there , ’ says Hallin . |
| 30 | There is some reason to believe them , despite the first instinct to be sceptical , since they already have access to plenty of mind-bending substances , from alcohol and tobacco to diet pills . |