Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They flung each other off and stared for an instant , each of them aware that he was known , each conscious that this recognition made many things plain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And thus and so , they whispered low , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Pool found themselves being hard pressed by as after taking an early lead through Michael Smithies , they squandered several good scoring chances before scrambling home by the only goal of the match . |
| 6 | in the erm Victorian period the stone was far so far rotted they inserted some new stones there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 9 | Second , about the same time , there was a view in Europe that non-Europeans were mentally degenerate because they lacked Western culture . |
| 10 | Although in an economically backward country like Spain these elements played an important cultural role , they lacked economic ‘ muscle ’ , a weakness that was accordingly transmitted to the Republic itself . |
| 11 | In Russia 's stratified society they lacked social and economic leverage of any kind ; their inflammatory proclamations and resort to violence and terrorism alienated even the progressive wing of educated society . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At first , the executives believed that the reason they could not formulate and implement a viable strategic plan was that they lacked sound financial data . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The two social groups had almost nothing in common : they lacked any common shared sense of a Polish past ; they did not share a sense of common identity ; and historically and geographically Warsaw was far too remote , and contact with it too inconsistent , ever to exert any power over the Pomeranian peasant imagination . |
| 16 | They lacked any direct involvement in the origins of those hostilities and were clear-eyed about the depleted resources with which they had to work to arouse a usually indifferent public . |
| 17 | The problem with old-fashioned community studies was that they lacked any systematic procedure for linking ethnographic observation with accounts of society as a whole . |
| 18 | Their attention wandered and they lacked any discipline to learn . ’ |
| 19 | Generally , they did not form a fresh farmstead as they lacked some necessary buildings . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They might be short of one or two quality players , but in such a yo-yo season Villa have as good a chance as any , particularly if Dalian Atkinson returns from injury to give them the sort of finishing power they lacked last night . |
| 22 | Or are they reflecting growing disaffection among scientists with recent changes in their profession ? |
| 23 | They decried human rights abuses and curbs on basic freedoms . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The unions are already holding a strike ballot because they fear compulsory redundancies . |
| 26 | They fear endless meetings and worry that they do n't know enough to join in . |
| 27 | They fear long-term pension levels could be affected . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They announced that . |
| 30 | German software products company SAP AG , Walldorf , and Microsoft Corp have scheduled a press conference in Munich today , at which they are expected to announce ‘ something beyond ’ the agreement to put SAP 's R/2 and R/3 suites up under Windows NT , which they announced this week . |