Example sentences of "[subord] they [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 3 | Taken in conjunction with what follows they show the development of UK practice , although they also illustrate that progress has been slow and uncertain , and that user education is still generally a peripheral service in most libraries . |
| 4 | It is a robust species and can reach over two feet in length , although they seldom reach this size in the aquarium . |
| 5 | Those of us in public life are aware that , whenever complaints of poor service come before us , there are always Labout Members who will blame either the absence of public funds , although they never make any reference to where the money has to come from , or the Government . |
| 6 | The ‘ needles ’ that send out the negative ions clog up in time , reducing efficiency , so they also need regular cleaning ( use a cotton bud ) . |
| 7 | Just as linguists today use traditional categories like ‘ gender ’ or ‘ case ’ , so they also inherit traditional value judgements and myths . |
| 8 | Actually it 's quite a cosy group , so they probably know each other by |
| 9 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 10 | Once they ever reach that position |
| 11 | Dr Tadecki said : ‘ Research in America indicates that someone is up to 50 per cent more likely to lose their temper if they regularly watch violent television programmes such as The Equalizer . ’ |
| 12 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 13 | They look as if they just heard bad news . |
| 14 | If they freely abdicate that power , what they consent to may have popular support , but it is not democracy . |
| 15 | Yeah Charlotte you always , I hate the way you always relent and you always say oh well , you know , I should n't be angry with them cos they just wanted some fun and you know , never mind eh , sort of thing and you know , you suc yeah but why do you succumb |
| 16 | It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda |
| 17 | erm , and they did remarkably well , you know , taking it over , they were really very acceptable at the end , but the whole programme had this sub-plot of how antagonistic most of the prison officers were , not all of them , cos they obviously has some support to keep it going , but a lot of them were antagonistic towards what was going on , and not only that but just the the prison system , you know , this chap got transferred from one prison to another , when he was mid-way through rehearsals , you know , I mean why should n't he have stayed there , |
| 18 | If any are in the category of persons provided for in Section D of Department 's 279 of March 31 they should not be repatriated to the Soviet Union unless they affirmatively claim Soviet citizenship " [ this referred to Balts and Poles ] . |
| 19 | And the specialists ' impact on other classes was limited ‘ because they rarely have sufficient time to work alongside their colleagues ’ . |
| 20 | What I mean is , women are vulnerable when they are housewives because they also have sole responsibility for childcare at home . |
| 21 | In some classes friendship groups are very productive , but there are times when you might want to keep certain children apart because they frequently distract each other , or maybe you want to make sure that boys and girls work together . |
| 22 | And despite the wonderful climate , and being able to play Riviera whenever I wanted , I longed to see green fields and my folks and my friends , and hear the cricket scores on the radio , and escape from the constant pursuit of more money and better deals for the clients , who mostly did n't care anyway because they already had more money than they knew what to do with . ’ |
| 23 | This is a problem for plants because they already have fewer daylight hours in which to manufacture their food , and can not grow at all if the temperature falls below 6 degrees Celsius . |
| 24 | ‘ The only losers in this transaction are the larger regional banks , because they now have another competitor of significant size . |
| 25 | ( Hannah 's work on occupational pensions suggests that employers could seldom conspire , because they seldom had any idea of what they were doing in the area of pension policy . ) |
| 26 | While they frequently acknowledge that language may be used to perform many communicative functions , they nonetheless make the general assumption that the most important function is the communication of information . |
| 27 | In the Western Isles , climatic influences are almost as important as parent material in determining soil types ( more important in the case of peat , the most widespread soil type ) , while they also exert some influence with regard to biogeography . |
| 28 | I have weighed quite a few bream as soon as I have removed the hook , and again several hours later , and while they always lose some weight , there is no specific loss in terms of so many ounces per hour . |
| 29 | While they still maintain feminist art history should raise ‘ fundamental questions for art history as a humanist discipline ’ , they do not believe feminist art history should be confined to the documentation of women artists ( as a form of additive history ) . |
| 30 | For one thing , they are perceived as essentially punitive since they ultimately involve criminal prosecution or the ‘ sanction ’ of a care order . |