Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
| 2 | Students received a certificate only if they successfully completed the whole course : partial success was not formally certificated . |
| 3 | These courses tended , on the whole , to be externally examined and students only received a certificate if they successfully completed the whole course . |
| 4 | They soon progressed from Christmas to holidays … travel … world events … and then to food , as they laughingly divided the two plump triangles of cake and argued as to which was the nicer . |
| 5 | Yet when interest rates fall , as they have done recently , they rarely show the same enthusiasm for cutting their rates . |
| 6 | But they are much more akin to many modern skyscrapers : they rather symbolize the social ambitions of their makers — and the comparative difficulty of self-expression on an ample scale in the crowded streets of a medieval city . |
| 7 | They bitterly resented the unfounded claims , but after a time pushed it from their minds as no more than another instance of government ruthlessness in propaganda . |
| 8 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 9 | Now that the contents of everything have to be described in great detail on the packaging , they duly told the French people that it contained preservatives . |
| 10 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
| 11 | Via the trachea and the oesophagus , they eventually reach the small intestine . |
| 12 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 13 | By restricting the maximum length of pelagic gill-nets in the Australian EEZ to 2.5 km ( 1.6 miles ) , they effectively excluded the huge Taiwanese nets . |
| 14 | They did of course no such thing for membership was on a voluntary basis and they only represented the local Councils who had sent them . |
| 15 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 16 | To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies . |
| 17 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 18 | They only liked the best . |
| 19 | but erm , does n't have they only had the white ones , so I think I might go to Waitrose , not Waitrose , erm , might get up early tomorrow and go to erm , what 's it called , erm , Sainsburys , yeah . |
| 20 | He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis . |
| 21 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |
| 22 | The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society . |
| 23 | I know how demanding they are and that they only expect the best . ’ |
| 24 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 25 | Again , self-reference , albeit of a slightly different character , is essential to the analyses of valid consent and of promising which are acts changing the normative situation because they are undertaken in the belief that they so change the normative situation . |
| 26 | Every sound seemed a potential threat — the wind rustling in the pine trees , the flapping of a startled bird 's wings , the jackals ' baleful howling as they patiently awaited the abandoned carcass . |
| 27 | The teak paddles began to rotate , making little more than a whisper of sound as they gently scythed the warm air . |
| 28 | And remember that the most characteristic meals are not necessarily found behind the most imposing facades , nor do they necessarily carry the highest price tags . |
| 29 | They necessarily become the specialized regulators of behavioural interactions with the environment . |
| 30 | The tunes in English are not necessarily the same in form as those of other languages , nor do they necessarily produce the same effect . |