Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this is for the purchase of private houses but they also lend on commercial property . |
| 2 | Since use of land for domestic and industrial purposes is largely incompatible with clean water , potable supply rivers tend to be found in rural settings where they also have considerable amenity value . |
| 3 | normal trainers but they just got spikes in them . |
| 4 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 5 | Foreign sovereigns and the ambassadors of foreign states are immune from the jurisdiction of the English courts unless they voluntarily submit themselves to it , but the actual extent of the immunity is not free from doubt . |
| 6 | In other words , Indian parents who could afford amniocentesis , the rich ones , wanted sons and they certainly did n't want daughters , because they aborted ninety five point five percent of the daughters but none of the sons , even when the sons were genetically defective . |
| 7 | With the race being the first nominated for the Commonwealth Games panel to ride , the 80-strong field contained a big 21 contingent of top riders and they closely marked each other for most of the race . |
| 8 | Oddly , he finds that about 70 per cent of his clients end up buying very different homes than they originally intended . |
| 9 | Such choices may be exploited , and fed , by commercial considerations but they ultimately reflect an actual desire for a specific type of medium . |
| 10 | Most low attainers lack knowledge of the relationship between metric units and they also have problems with decimals . |
| 11 | Old habits and traditions die hard and work will be needed to be undertaken to convince some parents that they now have a tree choice of school . |
| 12 | One feels sorry for the little ones in some circumstances and they nearly become like children — but not quite . |
| 13 | His troops were left outside that city throughout the entire bitter winter of 1942–1943 , resulting in the loss of a quarter of a million German troops when they eventually surrendered to the Russians on 2nd , February 1943 . |
| 14 | Er they 're still proper funerals but they basically bulk buying so the cost will be Typically about |
| 15 | They achieve different things and they probably represent a hierarchy of development or an historical sequence . |
| 16 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 17 | Played by people who keep so busy with minute details that they always seem harassed . |
| 18 | New parties partly reflect the breakdown of old loyalties but they also encourage volatility by offering a wider range of choice |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all very well having top foreign players but they also want coaches to help develop their local talent . ’ |
| 20 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 21 | Normally common sense and her instinct for self-protection , much sharpened since her disastrous relationship with Giles , would have outlawed such foolish thoughts before they even reached her conscious mind . |
| 22 | Young people who abuse drugs regularly often end up as very immature adults because they never learn to cope with their problems . |
| 23 | These 2 sides are old aquaintances and they never forget . |
| 24 | He would not accept their continual bleatings that they just wanted to ‘ be in a band and make great records . ’ |
| 25 | There are also others whose role in the home has changed or who have taken perhaps lesser jobs than they once had . ’ |
| 26 | In contrast , the effect of dealing with domestic disputes can be traumatic on some policemen as they momentarily place their own children and family in the situation of emotional horror they encounter . |
| 27 | Many studies of previous generations have shown that many young people leave rural areas before they even enter the job market , and that these migrants are the most able and motivated ( Rieger , 1972 ; Hannan , 1969 ) thus adding weight to the theory of cumulative causation , as the less able young , the old , and the redundant come to form a greater and greater proportion of the population . |
| 28 | Most attention in the past , however , has been given to residential differentiation within urban areas , whereas the current trends are operating on a much broader canvas , such that young school leavers are drawn to London from all over Britain , older people retire to remoter rural areas where they previously enjoyed holidays , and young married couples move not just to the suburbs but to smaller cities and towns situated at considerable distance from the major urban centres . |
| 29 | They were attractive-looking animals and they often allowed us to get quite close . |
| 30 | This , in effect , meant that the Sunnis were their principal antagonists and they thus proceeded to capitalise on the good will of the Christians , their oldest friends , by creating a new state which stripped Tyre , Sidon , Tripoli , the Bekaa Valley and Beirut itself district ) of Mount Lebanon , the very backbone of Maronite Christianity . |