Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes that people ‘ choose ’ yakhtaru ) members of committees ( see chapter I , ‘ Popular congresses and people 's committees ’ ) ; but everyone else called these choosings ‘ elections ’ ( intikhab ) : older people had experience , younger ones the tradition of elections under the monarchy ; and they assimilated these procedures . |
| 2 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 3 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 4 | According to the book 's author , Zhang Yong Jie , himself a young man in his twenties , they were forced to find short-term solutions to long-term problems and they lacked well-established beliefs and values because of the rapidly changing nature of Chinese society . |
| 5 | They decried human rights abuses and curbs on basic freedoms . |
| 6 | They fear collective losses could reach £2.4 billion , imposing further swingeing losses on many of the 20,000 individual investor ‘ Names ’ , who join syndicates to share the risks and profits of underwriting . |
| 7 | The unions are already holding a strike ballot because they fear compulsory redundancies . |
| 8 | They fear endless meetings and worry that they do n't know enough to join in . |
| 9 | Martin Sinnatt , Club Secretary of the Kennel Club , explained that they object to this on the grounds of potential cruelty — not because indelibly marking a dog would hurt , but because they fear unscrupulous owners would try to remove the mark before dumping an unwanted pet . |
| 10 | The Music Halls , as might be readily anticipated , attracted the familiar accusation that they lowered moral standards and encouraged imitative crime . |
| 11 | They lay more eggs than European owls : the mean clutch size in Malaysia is 6.6 compared with around 5.5 in Europe ; and while Europeans lay only one clutch each year , the Malayan barn owls reproduce twice or even three times a year . |
| 12 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 13 | They gain many things , from qualifications to self-awareness and confidence . |
| 14 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 15 | In two days of talks in Belgrade on May 30-31 , during which they met federal leaders and all the presidents of the republics , Jacques Delors , President of the EC Commission , and Jacques Santer , the Luxembourg Prime Minister and current chair of the EC Council of Ministers , had confirmed that the EC was ready to help a democratized and reformed Yugoslavia , with unchanged internal and external borders . |
| 16 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 17 | They met 45 times over two years and prepared reports which were circulated to the other members of the International Commission and to the editors of the more important chemistry journals . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 19 | They met 11 years ago and married six months after Jim Henson 's death . |
| 20 | They met four years ago in the London run of the musical Godspell . |
| 21 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 22 | For the uninitiated , they met 18 months ago , enjoying a common outlook on music and deciding to take it from there . |
| 23 | The new version of the directive , which had received the assent of the European Parliament ( EP ) on Nov. 22 , and which was due to come into force in January 1993 , allowed providers of financial services the right , in principle , to trade anywhere in the EC provided that they met minimum standards ( the so-called " single passport " concept ) . |
| 24 | They met several times more up to 1985 , but seem to have remained in touch until the last few months of Ceauşescu 's rule . |
| 25 | Although they met several times a day and were on good terms , the chief superintendent always felt uncomfortable in the commander 's presence : he was an earnest , church-going man who never laughed , never drank , never swore and rarely showed emotion . |
| 26 | They met some girlfriends of Jessica 's , and ended up having cakes and coffee and a laugh . |
| 27 | The four categories of need chosen by the Authority varied considerably in the extent to which they met these conditions , at both LEA and school level . |
| 28 | Ronnie Cairns , a fluent Japanese speaker who acted as interpreter , said : ‘ They met these boys in Botanic Gardens and were chatted up . |
| 29 | The Department of Health said tests would begin today on the vaccines to make sure they met British standards . |
| 30 | ‘ They met three years ago , ’ she said . |