Example sentences of "they [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Finally , both groups progressed in the same way when they realised that a basic structure containing some predetermined questions was very important but that scope for flexibility and improvising questions was equally important . |
| 3 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 4 | First , they argued that a Maximum Admissible Concentration should be treated as an absolute limit not to be breached , and not the basis of an average . |
| 5 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 6 | Similarly , they argued that a person 's motor racing was a hobby in Atlas Marketing ( 1985 ) 2 BVC 205 , 298 . |
| 7 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 8 | They argued that a communist victory in northern Indo-China would help to relieve the economic problems of communist China ( long-term Chinese weakness being an important assumption in American policy ) . |
| 9 | They argued that a short 'scene-setting " sentence such as " It rained hard " was a more appropriate beginning to the story . |
| 10 | As a safeguard , they recommended that a magistrates ' court should be required to sanction any detention after twenty-four hours and that the suspect should be legally represented at this stage , so that his or her point of view could be put across . |
| 11 | They recommended that a similar ban be imposed on two of Krabbe 's team-mates — world 400 metres silver medallist Grit Breuer , and Manuela Derr , a member of East Germany 's gold-medal winning 4x400 metres relay team at the 1990 European Championships . |
| 12 | They recommended that a limited member of such posts should be available subject to certain safeguards ( Widdicombe 1986 : 154 ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless they recommended that a committee should be formed from Gold Coast leaders to chart a programme of reform . |
| 14 | To account for their complex set of results they proposed that a concurrent task may have either general effects , that is , influence performance by both hemispheres , and/or specific effects which are restricted to one particular hemisphere . |
| 15 | They proposed that a preparatory committee should start work in July , to prepare for " a summit meeting of the CSCE participating states before the end of this year " in Paris to " mark the starting point for a more advanced stage of the Helsinki process " [ see p. 37386 ] . |
| 16 | They moved that a new scheme should be prepared , in conformity with catholic social teaching . |
| 17 | Forms of thought are bounded ; they occupy but a portion of intellectual space . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They suggest that a couple should be allowed to get divorced after one year without having to attribute blame for the split . |
| 22 | They found that a local custom in the country was to walk around barefoot at all times of the year and in all weathers . |
| 23 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 24 | If the points were electrically stimulated to induce correct electrical balance , the impending physical changes were averted , In many cases they found that a pathological condition could be reversed by stimulating and rebalancing the points . |
| 25 | They found that a groundsman had dolled off the hurdle instead of the adjacent steeplechase fence — ommitted because of false ground . |
| 26 | They found that a large proportion of the children had already spent the greater part of their lives in care . |
| 27 | When the Spanish conquerors entered Mexico they found that a special variety , the fire opal , having a clear orange or yellow body , was held in high esteem by the Aztecs . |
| 28 | They found that a 50% variation in dividends led to only a 0.3% change in the theoretical futures price of the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 29 | But they found that a tremendous amount of grain was lost by being shed on to the stubble . |
| 30 | They found that a tax allowance variable played a far more important role than the interest rate in affecting investment . |