Example sentences of "[adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are exclusively narrative they are useless for song writing . |
| 2 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |
| 3 | In order to achieve this they seem certain to continue to deny close analysis of their practices , for exposure could well generate the potential to contest the system by releasing knowledge to those the system was set up to control . |
| 4 | To do this they will need not only a knowledge of the vocabulary of steps through which dancers communicate , but an ability to explain their design so that dancers can give it depth of feeling ( see page 78 ) . |
| 5 | This they very nearly achieved . |
| 6 | This they frequently do , eating into , and more often devouring , the commissions they receive from the issuer . |
| 7 | For this they could blame their own indiscipline as much as Llanelli 's eagerness to take advantage of it . |
| 8 | This they did handsomely , leading the Round Robin qualifying rounds , defeating France , who had been strongly tipped , in the semi-finals and Argentina in the finals . |
| 9 | They wanted examples and cases to show that the institutions of capitalism are historically specific and therefore changeable ; in order to demonstrate this they looked for examples of institutions which were as different from those of capitalism as possible . |
| 10 | • Patients are asked to go to bed 3 hours later each ‘ night ’ and get up 3 hours later each ‘ morning ’ — this they will find easy , of course . |
| 11 | After this they had conversations about it over three or four weekends , at his father 's home in Devon . |
| 12 | To stand the best chance of doing this they need to win the group , which would bring them a match in Bologna against the runners-up from Group E. |
| 13 | In this they were wrong , for he has shown many times that he can fight as well as anyone . |
| 14 | As soon as the seeds germinate , the tray must be put in a cooler position with full light supplied — if you do n't do this they will get weak and leggy and be very prone to damping off disease . |
| 15 | This they took for ‘ all animals except swine , and swine all the year round in the hay of Plumpton , and during the fence month … in the rest of the forest ’ |
| 16 | Besides this they collect lambs and sucking pigs , wool and flax ; from every house where there is wool , a fleece , and in the fence month , from every house a penny , or a farthing for each pig . |
| 17 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 18 | In this they were similar to Wester Ross but contrasted with Norway where the use of extra grants and subsidies had overcome this problem . |
| 19 | So it would seem that children may assist one parent to care for the other who might otherwise go into a home , but apart from this they have to residential homes for some while caring for and thus avoiding the admission of others , and that these two influences cancel each other out in the statistics . |
| 20 | For this they would receive $315,000 . |
| 21 | Recruits had to learn how to fall and land safely , and this they did from a variety of heights and by means of different contraptions . |
| 22 | In this they were mistaken , but the Franco-German axis was not harmonious either . |
| 23 | This they did at an Intergovernmental Conference in 1837 when Hessen , defensive of its national sovereignty , suggested a parallel currency rather like the hard ecu . |
| 24 | Acknowledging this they presented the Club with an engraved silver rose bowl in 1984 in appreciation of some 15 years of play at Henley which they had chosen from the Daily Telegraph Book on Golf Courses ! |
| 25 | But then soldiers are supposed to put their country above their personal interests and but for this they would not have to obey their commander . |
| 26 | This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea . |
| 27 | Failing in this they had then strangled her and thrown the body downstairs to give the appearance of suicide . |
| 28 | This they did two or three times , forgetting my presence , and laughed heartily at the mistake . |
| 29 | This they seemed to find no difficulty in doing , once the meeting started . |
| 30 | In this they were simply reflecting the typical disinterest of historians . |