Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these ‘ philosophical ’ analyses of society were essentially based on speculation , on dubious and untested assumptions about the motives of human beings in their behaviour , and on undisciplined theorising , and they lacked systematic analysis of the structure and workings of societies . |
| 2 | Second , about the same time , there was a view in Europe that non-Europeans were mentally degenerate because they lacked Western culture . |
| 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 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |
| 6 | Or are they reflecting growing disaffection among scientists with recent changes in their profession ? |
| 7 | They decried human rights abuses and curbs on basic freedoms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The unions are already holding a strike ballot because they fear compulsory redundancies . |
| 10 | They fear endless meetings and worry that they do n't know enough to join in . |
| 11 | They fear long-term pension levels could be affected . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Music Halls , as might be readily anticipated , attracted the familiar accusation that they lowered moral standards and encouraged imitative crime . |
| 14 | But the Muslims , though they despise Syrian rule in Lebanon , need Syria 's presence to ensure that real political reform takes place . |
| 15 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 16 | They gain wide experience of different types of hardware and many varied programming languages . |
| 17 | School leavers , or inexperienced people joining the industry often get jobs in riding schools or competition yards where they gain practical experience . |
| 18 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 19 | They met Prime Minister Metaxas in Greece , Kemal Ataturk in Turkey , and King Boris in Bulgaria . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | cars be permitted to make the lengthy journey out to Finchley and back down the other road to Cricklewood and Willesden , where they met other L.C.C . |
| 23 | Last year they met Civil Service in the preliminaries and the year before it was Muckross . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | The Department of Health said tests would begin today on the vaccines to make sure they met British standards . |
| 27 | Another group had landed at Rottingdean and marched inland towards Lewes ; on the way they met fierce resistance from an armed band led by another warlike monk , Prior John of St Pancras . |
| 28 | At first they met fierce opposition , but the formation of the Republic and the immigration of many new peoples led to a wide open door for evangelical missionary activity . |
| 29 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 30 | In Cuzco they met old acquaintances from Buenos Aires , from Santiago , from Quito . |