Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately . |
| 2 | BASI News warned members that they would be working against French law and could be heavily fined . |
| 3 | It was a favourite thing to hire journalists for they presumably knew how to write good press releases and would have excellent contacts in the media world . |
| 4 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 5 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 6 | The provision , which went into effect in 1986 , removed the right of British citizens to escape extradition if they were charged with political crimes . |
| 7 | Worcester Juvenile Court has been hearing how three teenage boys wreaked havoc when they went to play on a building site . |
| 8 | Similarly , the harmful beings see meat when they look upon the human body , the human ‘ soul ’ ( ruwai ) , or human smell , and they will also set about trying to catch these . |
| 9 | The plucky Radford troubled Navratilova when they last met at Wimbledon four years ago , leading by a set and 3–1 before their match was suspended overnight . |
| 10 | Clare Stevens and Mark Mascal , both members of Nottingham Cathedral Group , thumbed across seven European countries collecting signatures as they went , and raising £1,000 for Amnesty International . |
| 11 | He was forced to conclude that there is currently no obvious explanation for why his phases of meltwater runoff and accelerated sea-level rise took place when they did . |
| 12 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 13 | The half-boiled storyline could have been poached from a hundred different games : Dizzy and Daisy were in the Enchanted Forest collecting cherries when they became hopelessly lost . |
| 14 | Due to recent staff changes the only existing senior staff who are members of the Council are Dr Ivor Davies , Director of Planning and Mr Robin Barratt , Director of National Sports Training Centres and they will now cease to attend as members . |
| 15 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 16 | Their basic needs receive attention and they are assured accommodation , medical attention and food . |
| 17 | Anticipatory and parenthetical structures increase difficulty because they require the reader 's mind to store up syntactic information which it will use later on ( see 7.5.3–4 ) . |
| 18 | Lisa Julie Davies , 18 , of Lowmoor Road , and Susan Winifried Davies , of Kempton Court , both Darlington , admitted making false representations to obtain benefit when they appeared before the town 's magistrates . |
| 19 | Their co-operation and warmth enables the entire Maltese project to take shape and they are fine ambassadors to their enchanting country . ] |
| 20 | Governor George Deukmejian , at the launch of the new safeguards , said that the law " will give California an unprecedented ability to prevent spills before they happen and to fight the effects of spills if they do occur . " |
| 21 | Why would we consider men fully paid-up perverts if they showed an unnatural interest in Crimplene blouses , but normal red blooded males if they ignite at the mere mention of silk teddies ? |
| 22 | A new government scheme will try to help London 's homeless by pumping £3m into provincial projects to help people before they even get to the capital . |
| 23 | They have an extraordinary capability to taint food where they form compounds with fats which are detectable in parts per billion . |
| 24 | However , aggravations still do occur and are useful guides to remedy reaction as they are with the C scale . |
| 25 | In ‘ Visser and Crane 's ’ furniture factory where the Black labourers are employed , the Black men sing calypso as they work , echoing the songs composed and sung by their slave ancestors in the Caribbean . |
| 26 | The answer was : ‘ Well , it 's so tough for black guys to make breakthroughs that they try like mad to be better . |
| 27 | Quick fad diets with very low calorie contents are not a very healthy way to lose weight since they can leave you feeling tired and irritable . |
| 28 | Purchasers seeking clearance and other parties submitting information to the regulatory authorities face prosecution if they supply false or misleading information . |
| 29 | For example , in Pavlov 's classical experiments , hungry dogs heard music when they were given food . |
| 30 | It is far easier in physical terms to read texts if they are positioned as below ( A ) rather than in the usual position ( B ) . |