Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many airlines are so confused or battered that they no longer have anything resembling a clear business strategy . |
| 2 | When something goes wrong , I find the quickest way to make matters worse is to launch in with my own fury , or insist that they repair the damage MY way . |
| 3 | The purpose of this study is to determine whether accounting practices need to be adjusted or developed if they are to be of use to firms operating in the highly changeful high technology sectors . |
| 4 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 5 | Think how often you see two people struggling to rig or de-rig because they are too embarrassed or independent to ask someone to help . |
| 6 | Outdoor lighting should not cause any glare and even low-power lights should be fitted with diffusers or placed so they bounce their light off trees , shrubs or walls . |
| 7 | Britain grinds out almost five million tonnes of hazardous waste each year , of which about 63,000 tonnes are so difficult to store or treat that they are burnt at high temperatures here in Gwent or at one of three other centres : Ellesmere Port ; Fawley , near Southampton ; and the unfortunately named Killamarsh , near Sheffield . |
| 8 | Five others either declared their candidacy or announced that they would soon do so : Edmund G. ( Jerry ) Brown Jr , Governor of California in 1975-83 ; Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas ; Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa ; Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska , and Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia . |
| 9 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 10 | Some were imprisoned or banished when they refused to be silenced . |
| 11 | The old rules have to be revised or discarded because they applied to the circumstances that existed when they were formulated , a hundred years ago . |
| 12 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 13 | Even so , they might all be shot as they crossed the moat with their explosives , or wounded before they could leave , having planted them . |
| 14 | We 'll wait and see when the second draft comes to this Council , when the Council will discuss my points and agree or disagree that they should be included or not . |
| 15 | They will either run or attack if they are surrounded . ’ |
| 16 | ( 135 ) … raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them to decompose into their elements ( or oxidize if they are heated in air ) … |
| 17 | No they do n't erect them when a , when a predator comes along , they just run or fly if they can . |
| 18 | Areas are subtracted or added as they leave or come into view . |
| 19 | In dealing with the breach , or threatened breach of the peace , it is the duty of the police to investigate and to take such steps to stop or prevent as they think necessary . |
| 20 | This included legislation and other measures allowing young men to evade conscription or ordering that they only serve in their home republic , and moves by individual republics to set up their own military detachments . |
| 21 | The code of practice of the Association of Funeral Directors describes every step of their procedures for dealing with a dead body but constantly emphasizes the need to behave with respect , the need to act ‘ as if the next-of-kin were standing at their elbow , or act as they would if the deceased were a member of their own family ’ . |
| 22 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 23 | The segregation of people and vehicles , what is more , has led to new and unforeseen problems , such as the fear that cars are more easily stolen or vandalised when they are out of sight or that segregated pedestrian areas make identification of strangers more difficult and facilitate unobserved escape from the scene of criminal activity . |
| 24 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 25 | This view takes into account the general view that crime is or ought to be those actions which are considered so immoral or damaging that they should be subject to punishment . |
| 26 | Negative statements such as ‘ I do n't know how you can work with them ’ or ‘ they do n't belong here — this is a college ’ , which were once like a red rag to a bull to me , no longer insult or injure as they did . |
| 27 | The qualities that are disapproved of are ones they do n't think they have , or consider that they keep under control . |
| 28 | It would be wrong to give the impression that Liz , Alix and Esther fell into one another 's arms with cries of delight when they met again that October , or to suggest that they proved thereafter inseparable . |
| 29 | I go home and people are either getting divorced or remarried and they have n't seen through it all yet . |
| 30 | Levi defines long-firm fraud as referring to businesses which order substantial quantities of goods on credit at a time when the owners of the business either intend not to pay for them or suspect that they will not be able to pay for them . |