Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb base] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also much unnecessary hardship and fear and pain caused by man to animals in the way we breed them , market them , or eventually kill them in an abattoir . |
| 2 | Do you use them as a raft , or just throw them to the sharks and sort of watch them sink ? |
| 3 | or still do them in the evening ? |
| 4 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 5 | These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) . |
| 6 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
| 7 | He further decided that she had not established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation , and he ordered their return to Australia pursuant to the provisions of article 12 of the Hague Convention . |
| 8 | He submits that matters regarding their welfare can only be taken into account on the exercise of discretion under article 13 if they establish the criterion to be found in article 13 ( b ) , i.e. , that there is a grave risk that their return would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation . |
| 9 | Make a latticed frame to go over the fire and put the trout on it or otherwise hang them over the smoke , and if possible cover it all with branches of more leaves to keep the smoke inside . |
| 10 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 11 | the fact of belonging to the same class , and that of belonging to the same generation or age group , have this in common , that both endow the individuals sharing in them with a common location in the social and historical process , and thereby limit them to a specific range of potential experience , predisposing them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience , and a characteristic type of historically relevant action . |
| 12 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 13 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
| 14 | In the Commons , Mr Kinnock accused Mrs Thatcher of ‘ defending the indefensible ’ by ‘ giving instructions that in the middle of the night armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into cages and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ What excuse , ’ he asked Mrs Thatcher , ‘ have you got for giving instructions that in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What excuse has she got for giving instructions that , in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? |
| 17 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 18 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 19 | Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them . |
| 20 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 21 | Twelve months earlier , when Paris had been liberated , communist members of the Resistance in France had wanted to strike before the French army and de Gaulle arrived and thus present them with an accomplished fact . |
| 22 | I pick flowers so that they look pretty in a bunch and just jam them into a vase . |
| 23 | Sometimes , it can be useful to write each main point in the argument on a separate card or sheet of paper , and physically reorder them on a table in front of you , joining up the points in your mind with a linking commentary . |
| 24 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 25 | However , in two-player mode the game really comes into its own : you can beat yer mates up and still take 'em for a pint afterwards ! 69% |
| 26 | In James Callaghan 's famous speech at Ruskin College , Oxford , in October 1976 , from which the Great Debate emerged , he spoke of a school curriculum which would aim ‘ to equip children … for a lively , constructive place in society , and also fit them for a job of work ’ . |
| 27 | last season Gloucester had two games against Rugby in seven days … they knocked them out of the cup by 23 points to 3 and also beat them in the league that was quite a tussle … the cherry and whites won by nineteen points to sixteen and once again got the try of the game … |
| 28 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 29 | When pressing flowers from an arrangement , only choose the best specimens and carefully pack them in a box if taking them home . |
| 30 | Group them in twos or threes , securing with green tape and carefully push them into the cane |