Example sentences of "they [vb base] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In offering them something and being positive , not judgemental , in giving them support and a belief in the visual medium and the fact that they can participate in it freely . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , all their Thrush Green friends rallied round them , and Joan and Edward Young gave them comfort and a meal that evening . |
| 3 | You do not need to invest in technology to comply with the quality standards , but they concede that a computerised accounts system is really the only cost-effective way to deal with the financial management requirements . |
| 4 | Forms of thought are bounded ; they occupy but a portion of intellectual space . |
| 5 | Congregations will insist on hearing candidates preach sermons which may have taken weeks to prepare or to speak more correctly which some of them never prepared , whereas they forget that a man 's work in his own parish is the best possible testimony as to who and what he is , and one that can easily and accurately be ascertained . |
| 6 | They propose that a bonus be paid which is based upon an approximation to the change in social welfare.4 Specifically , the " incentive component " of the managerial emolument package that they propose for period t is given by a function of the increase in profits and the decrease in price between period t-1 and period t : Such an area is represented in figure 4.5 by the shaded portion , as can be seen by noting that the first term represents the rectangle ABCD and the second , the area under the marginal cost curve unc between unc and unc ( i.e. the integral |
| 7 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 8 | They suggest that a couple should be allowed to get divorced after one year without having to attribute blame for the split . |
| 9 | The significance of his additions lies largely in the proof they provide that a Touraine monastic source was the subject of study within the count 's own household by a secular clerk of distinction . |
| 10 | Do they really mean it when they say that a proposal is ‘ not negotiable ’ or conditional upon your acceptance within a very strict time limit ? |
| 11 | They say that a close encounter between the Sun and a more diffuse star-like object in the cluster tore off a hot filament of gases . |
| 12 | They say that a domestic crisis brings a family closer together . |
| 13 | They say that a weak , non-fighting force can be effective when the combatants want an excuse to stop shooting at each other and are glad to be separated by a symbolic line of bright blue berets . |
| 14 | They say that a restraint is " prima facie void " but " become binding " on proof of reasonableness . |
| 15 | They say that a release is on the cards this week er they make no mention of any ransom and they say Terry Waite is a priority for release ; he is at the top of a list of Western hostages about to be set free . |
| 16 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 17 | They realise that a free-trade solution is required : the key to success will depend as much on political courage as diplomatic skill . |
| 18 | But then they realise that a new line is needed . |
| 19 | They realise that a servant has often very little choice in the matter . |
| 20 | On all of their criteria they conclude that a school-based approach is likely to be superior to either one based upon testing or inspection . |
| 21 | They hope that a moderate faction — perhaps led by the current prime minister , Hun Sen — will accept a role as the junior partner in a coalition government . |
| 22 | They hope that a combination of drugs — including AZT — will prove more effective , impelling mutations of the virus in inconsistent directions . |
| 23 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 24 | They hope that a jobs package will go some way to defusing criticism over a perceived lack of direction on tackling the long dole queues . |
| 25 | ‘ They show that a major capital investment , amounting to £160 million in current prices , did not produce much physics and should have been closed long before it was in 1977 . ’ |
| 26 | By making the assumption that one orientation of a link in a chain relative to its neighbour is energetically preferred over all others they show that a temperature exists at which the configurational entropy vanishes , giving a true second-order transition at this point . |
| 27 | However , national and international figures are available and they show that a greater proportion of this country 's work force is in work than in any other European Community country except Denmark . |
| 28 | Yet if they wait while a complex corporate empire is unwound , the value of their loans can shrivel almost to nothing . |
| 29 | They complain that a 40-strong gang of mechanised pickers from Connah 's Quay and Deeside are wiping out beds conserved to prevent over-fishing . |
| 30 | Then , for an economy forecast to grow a certain amount , they predict that a corresponding amount of extra energy will be needed . |