Example sentences of "they [vb base] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
| 2 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 3 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 4 | They grin at the idea , crinkling their noses in mock distaste , suggesting that the monastic life holds no attraction for them . |
| 5 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 6 | No doubt they sit at the table , plotting and planning , making arrangements . |
| 7 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 8 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 9 | But they swarm at the windows in such numbers they black out the light and the air . |
| 10 | They tear at the patterns on one another 's fins . |
| 11 | These guys do n't blow women away ( in fact they flinch at the sight of guns ) but they exclude the opposite sex from their inner life . |
| 12 | ‘ And if they flinch at the sight of the salt , there are persuasions I can use . ’ |
| 13 | It is disappointing that South Saxon charters for these years are frequently of doubtful authenticity , if not entirely spurious , but they hint at a sequence of events similar to those in Kent . |
| 14 | The pictures in the book are a useful stimulus because they hint at the disasters and yet allow the children to flesh out the world of the carpenters , the gardeners , the cooks , the soldiers , the furniture makers ( perhaps using small pieces of fabric to indicate who they are ) . |
| 15 | We will design the full ad for them if they want at no extra cost . |
| 16 | This despite the increasingly apocalyptic talk about the inflation and unemployment that would arrive with the launch on new year 's day of a set of economic reforms : price liberalisation , the sale of small businesses and internal convertibility of the crown ( meaning that Czechoslovak firms licensed to conduct foreign trade can now buy as much foreign currency as they want at the newly unified exchange rate ) . |
| 17 | Right they 're getting everything they want at the moment because erm er ease the situation . |
| 18 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |
| 19 | A GALAXY of the rock world 's biggest stars will shine tonight when they appear at the pop world 's most spectacular prize giving ceremony . |
| 20 | There are three Wraithwisps for each adventurer , and they appear at the rate of four per round . |
| 21 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 22 | Many lecturers ( who are seldom trained educationalists ) do not realise the importance of this statement , and announce their topics only when they appear at the lectern . |
| 23 | In other words , they appear at the same time at widely separated localities . |
| 24 | So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework . |
| 25 | So what I 'm proposing is that we write to er Mick and erm Richard , asking what powers and responsibilities that they propose at the moment to devolve to Southwell . |
| 26 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |
| 27 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 28 | They walk at a leisurely pace and if prodded , often ‘ play dead ’ . |
| 29 | As the larger chart shows , two of the three issues on which the Tories ' most improved their position between mid-March and Thursday were inflation and taxation — the issues they put at the heart of their propaganda effort . |
| 30 | They stop at a motorway services . |