Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb base] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Western societies , men ( even those in process work ) still tend to be taught to seek relationships with a larger number of people and to control the amount of emotion they invest in these relationships .
2 Whether in practice they act in this way has not been established convincingly .
3 Although at first sight these three points apply only to overall policy development , in practice they apply at all levels , including individual branch development .
4 Now work out what percentage they represent of all service sector employment .
5 If the concentration increases to the right they turn in that direction until both antennae are sensing equal concentrations : and the rule will guide them straight down the odour trail .
6 If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards :
7 It is possible , however , to classify most British political leaders according to the relative importance they attach to these values .
8 ‘ Thus bodies like the Church exercise power over the individual on the basis of the knowledge they possess of that person .
9 The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life .
10 In this respect they contrast with another set of objections , which point to ambiguities in the claims Althusser has actually made ; and one of the most pertinent of these concerns his account of ideology .
11 At the University of Ibadan , chemists have analysed the growth hormones in cowpeas to determine the role they play in this abscission ( separation ) .
12 Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse !
13 In addition they draw on all kinds of background information they may have about that particular situation .
14 The MPs have concluded this could explain the leftwing bias they allege in some TV programmes .
15 When pressed about future plans for the range , Attenborough confirms her belief that women should be entitled to have exactly the shade they want in any product .
16 Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses .
17 ’ The way they operate in such secrecy gets me .
18 We can say that the relationship between marriage system and terminology is itself highly variable and so too is the way they interact on each other .
19 Your own death : If they are honest , most people are not so much afraid of being dead as they are of the way they arrive at that state .
20 It had to do with the personalities of the individuals and the way they work with each other when they meet .
21 The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects .
22 As the amino acids are brought into position they connect with each other and build up a protein , which becomes detached from the messenger RNA and is used by the cell .
23 Er one wonders how on earth they speak to each other , or if indeed they even know who each other is or where their offices are and there is n't that personal relationship that one might expect to find in the normal concept of a legal firm and indeed er without clearly we go to off the point somewhat to have a discussion as to whether or not er a partnership is a suitable legal entity for these people to trade under .
24 In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level .
25 But there 's one thing sure , next time they come on this land they 'll be met by a reception committee .
26 We will increase the time they have for each patient by reversing the financial pressures to take on too many patients .
27 And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun .
28 The motivation to perform is seen as a function of the beliefs that individuals have concerning future rewards multiplied by the value they place on those rewards .
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