Example sentences of "they [vb base] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 2 | If all the frogs pursue this policy , they sit in a tight clump . |
| 3 | Other birds of prey may also arouse strong responses if they sit in a conspicuous position during the daylight hours . |
| 4 | Thirty yards back along the street they sit in a murky Cavalier . |
| 5 | Anyway , so erm he said , but you know he was saying to them that er , it 's not just at the bottom end , he said , in our village in Wales we 've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these the they sit in a car outside his house day and night |
| 6 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 7 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 8 | They insist in a new and serious appraisal of such ideas as radical liberalism/radical democracy , the community in the nation-state , the changing role of civil society ; in short , the form of the political self . |
| 9 | They fit in a baby AT form factor and incorporate ISA expansion slots . |
| 10 | They feel that they should know what they want in a room from the very beginning , and feel incompetent if they can not make up their minds right away . |
| 11 | The ordinary hyphen is used between words that are hyphenated wherever they appear in a line and when those words would be split by a line-ending at the hyphen-point : eg well-known , time-consuming , up-to-date . |
| 12 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 13 | Immediately on his return from Gosol , while Gertrude Stein was still in Italy , he repainted the face , using the conventions of Iberian sculpture , although , since he was anxious to achieve a likeness , they appear in a slightly modified form . |
| 14 | Even when they sleep in a separate room . |
| 15 | The convenience of major shopping developments and the wide range of goods and produce they provide in a concentrated location , must be judged in future against wider environmental and social criteria . |
| 16 | But let's have a look , as they say in a certain quiz show , at what he turned down . |
| 17 | he added , ‘ I know that has meant taking younger men as lifeboat crew to withstand the battering they receive in a heavy sea . |
| 18 | They earn in a year what he 'd pay a French worker in a month . |
| 19 | They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place . |
| 20 | ‘ If my players are written off , they react in a positive and aggressive manner . |
| 21 | Outside is a different matter — protective covers for the cabin and cowling are an excellent idea as long as they let in a free flow of air to minimise condensation . |
| 22 | They put in a bit of effort . ’ |
| 23 | At best , they put in a decent effort in executing the entrepreneurial hero 's grand design . |
| 24 | Every time they put in a bid , I 'll be there to force the scoundrels beyond their limits … and I 'll keep on forcing until that land deed has the name of Luther Reynolds written on it . |
| 25 | And my suspicion is they put in a selectively low bid on that particular job . |
| 26 | They put in a tremendous physical effort in the second half . |
| 27 | And then they put in a claim form . |
| 28 | Two shots , they stop in a flash . |
| 29 | Soricid mandibles ( and skulls ) are more common , and because of the differences in mandibular anatomy , they break in a different way from rodent mandibles : the ascending ramus is composed of thickened bars of bone , with thinner bone in between , and it is these thinner areas that are broken initially , producing holes in the ramus ( Fig. 3.14 I-J ) while leaving the processes intact . |
| 30 | However , for the attitudinist , they function in a perfectly intelligible way in a discourse which explores relations of consistency and inconsistency between various possible and actual attitudes . |