Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 2 | They failed to obtain any long-term understanding on future regional coal price differentials from the National Coal Board , but their discussions did seem to indicate that there would be advantages to shifting away from the high-cost coalfields of Kent , South Wales and Scotland , and towards the cheaper coal of the East Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 3 | In Britain they failed to convert more than a faction of the Labour party , which was outvoted the year after it won its victory at the party conference . |
| 4 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 5 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 6 | But although Frank took two wickets for South Africa and cousin J.T. took one for England , they failed to get each other out . |
| 7 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 8 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 9 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 10 | they got to see that . |
| 11 | That meant he and Sara had hours and hours of hanging around together waiting to be called — and they got to know each other rather well . |
| 12 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 13 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 14 | Some 51.2% of those questioned at the end of 1991 said that they planned to buy more hardware but only 40.3% actually did . |
| 15 | It was not impossible they planned to work some malign mischief upon himself and the gullible Mistress Sinister . |
| 16 | They agreed to invite more men to the next meeting ( two attended the Harare workshop ) and to make a concerted effort to bring their concerns to the AACC leadership . |
| 17 | They asked to see some . |
| 18 | There is no obligation imposed on the organisers of an assembly to notify the police in advance that they intend to hold such a gathering . |
| 19 | Erm conversely I I think we would want to look at individual proposals as they as they came forward , and see what landscaping proposals they have and er how they intend to mitigate any perhaps adverse er landscape er implications . |
| 20 | And how do you know for a fact that they intend to bring these sorts of techniques in to Britain ? |
| 21 | ‘ But why should they want to do that ? ’ |
| 22 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |
| 23 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 24 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |
| 25 | Furthermore , once children have acquired the conventional word to express a particular meaning , they tend to use that , and not to coin a new form to use instead . |
| 26 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ The purpose of the grant is to extend choices for working parents , mainly women since they tend to take most responsibility for childcare . |
| 28 | They tend to regard each others ' markets as their own ‘ home ’ markets , whereas UK companies still tend to regard selling to EC countries as exporting . |
| 29 | This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising . |
| 30 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |