Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With gentle faces of mixed racial characteristics they sit and move gracefully in nakedness of near-nakedness . |
| 2 | The diplomats of 1919 , many of the methods they used and the ways in which they were instructed and controlled , even many of the policies they attempted to carry out , would have been clearly recognisable to their predecessors in the age of Metternich or even of Louis XIV . |
| 3 | He had never made any bones about it , and , to be honest , he was much more use out on the slopes , chatting people up , showing off the exclusive styles they sold and being a general advertisement for the place . |
| 4 | The big jeans names are already aware of the authentic newcomers , and are beginning to realise that the original utility styles they updated and bastardised over the past 30 years are the current fashion winners : watch them scramble to regain their own heritage . |
| 5 | Thus Japanese companies in the early sixties were financing more than 40 per cent of their investment by tapping external sources of funds ; French firms borrowed one-third of the funds they needed and German firms probably did the same . |
| 6 | The resulting allocative decisions depend on the relative strengths of the political interests involved , the tactics they employ and on the chance influence of time and place . |
| 7 | It rests the distinctiveness of trusts on two points : the words they use and the source of their authority . |
| 8 | Even more frequently there are people who claim to be introverted , ( in other words they think and feel as an introvert ) but who nonetheless over-compensate and behave in extraverted ways . |
| 9 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 10 | In other words they appear and disappear as they do because they are controlled by a particular sedimentary facies . |
| 11 | As most actors are looking for someone they 'll be happy to hang around with for years to come , they tend to choose subjects they like and approve of . |
| 12 | However does n't this expose how vunerable we still are at the back — Norwich virtually snatching the match with the only opportunities they had and Leeds failing once again up front . |
| 13 | And , or it 's one of the two lifts they had and they 've made it er toylands . |
| 14 | In certain respects they resemble or recall the heads of Kota and Hongue reliquary figures from the French Congo , some of the most abstract and inventive of all African tribal sculptures , and which existed in a wide and varied selection in the collections of the Trocadero at the time of Picasso 's visit . |
| 15 | Both men took , grave risks in the roles they adopted and could well have been attacked had their disguises been broken by the people they lived with . |
| 16 | An examination of the wide range of people involved , of the many different roles they play and of their varying involvement in or distance from the policy-making process will help to stress the importance of giving attention to implementation and to introduce the more theoretical discussion that is to follow . |
| 17 | Dr Starkie and her kind are cursed with memory : the books they teach and write about can never fade from their brains . |
| 18 | The database has been used by one group of learning support pupils who have used the printouts not only to find the books they want but also to organize their projects , using the questions as section headings . |
| 19 | If we want to find out about ancient people and the sites they used and constructed , our first thought might be to consult the archaeologists . |
| 20 | Erm organs are classified by the number of stops they have or something , is n't it ? |
| 21 | The present case suggests that not only are counsel under a duty to point out errors they observe but , citing Donoghue , that ‘ it would be helpful ’ if counsel for the prosecution were to make a check list of essential directions and draw attention to any omissions before the retirement of the jury . |
| 22 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 23 | Southern Electric , he added , aimed to continue to develop this kind of support for community based activities , in order to strengthen links with the communities they serve and from which the company drew their staff . |
| 24 | The adults extract oil from the sea-creatures they eat and then regurgitate it for their chicks . |
| 25 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 26 | Reserve police in the RUC wear the same uniform , for all that an outsider can distinguish , and as a consequence face the same security risks , but most are marginalized by the restricted range of duties they perform and the short-term status of their contract . |
| 27 | Secret The solution to this trick lies in the fact that , while the children can point to which lines they like or say which colour cards they like the best , you decide which cards to take away . |
| 28 | Their tendency is to concentrate on the matters they understand and ignore those that they do n't . |
| 29 | For much of their lives they act and behave as normal people . |
| 30 | A game is basically a manoeuvre that people indulge in to get the strokes they need and/or to be in a position to discount others . |