Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] [art] [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 | Yet when interest rates fall , as they have done recently , they rarely show the same enthusiasm for cutting their rates . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The eastern states say they badly need an extra 4,500 judges , 1,000 state prosecutors and 1,300 lawyers — not least to deal with the hundreds of thousands of property claims flooding in from the west . |
| 6 | Via the trachea and the oesophagus , they eventually reach the small intestine . |
| 7 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 8 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 9 | The Transport Department is said by the report to " have recently admitted that they only put a nominal value on public open space which would be destroyed by a proposed road scheme " . |
| 10 | The units are power-free in the sense that they only require a flow-through of water to function . |
| 11 | The youngest ones are the Institute of the future and they only require a little encouragement ( a twist of an arm ) and they will become reliable , enthusiastic committee members , secretaries or chairmen . |
| 12 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 13 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said very prettily , ‘ I can put up with mosquitoes since they only take a little nibble . |
| 15 | The wardens originally received twenty shillings for their work plus expenses ; now they only receive a small allowance towards their expenses , which is paid after they have served their two year term . |
| 16 | They only need a basic 4-channel radio to fly them and , if you already possess such a set , have much to commend them . |
| 17 | They call these intelligence , even though they only represent a small part of the mind 's capacity . |
| 18 | Finally , one can always sell the gold and any good jeweller is likely to be interested ; in my experience , however , they only offer a modest premium over the world 's spot price and , quite honestly , it is a meagre reward for all the effort . |
| 19 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |
| 20 | They only wan na small place , you do n't wan na a big |
| 21 | Although studies of land use like those outlined above provide useful overall data , they only produce a limited picture of what the countryside actually looks like and how it is changing in appearance , and this type of study remains at the heart , if not the mind , of many of even the most socioeconomic quantitative geographers . |
| 22 | Of the three informants ( 10% ) who marked it , at this late stage , as an SF element , two indicated that they only read a small amount of SF , and the other said that she never read anything of the genre . |
| 23 | The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society . |
| 24 | These rooms they only have a certain |
| 25 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 26 | big like gun in like a staple thing it was , but it was a la , it was an extended one , fitted inside this rubber hose and then , clamp it and they only have a little bit of stomach left so they ca n't eat proper meals |
| 27 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 28 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 29 | Social relations with the royal family were sporadic , especially as they only spend a small part of the year on their 20,000-acre estate . |
| 30 | I know how demanding they are and that they only expect the best . ’ |