Example sentences of "they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 2 | In the evenings they mostly camped . |
| 3 | They mostly excel in their industry — the skill with which they irrigate their terraced hillsides with tiny runnels of water shows a considerable advancement in agriculture . |
| 4 | Singing is almost entirely confined to breeding grounds , most singers are males , and they mostly sing alone . |
| 5 | Women can drive cars , taxis , buses , trucks , diggers , lawn-mowers — that sort of thing , though in the West they mostly do n't ( except cars ) because of tradition . ’ |
| 6 | She said they mostly wore silky slips and dressing-gowns . |
| 7 | ‘ Racing people do have flexible hours , ’ he observed , ‘ and they mostly have free afternoons . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I thought , ‘ well , it 's the Boat Race , not very high-powered crews considering they mostly do other things ’ . |
| 9 | With rapid depletion of fertility in the Tidewater land many settlers moved onto the Piedmont where they mostly repeated their mistakes . |
| 10 | Smaller family farmers have been neglected and offered derisory prices for the products they mostly sell ( e.g. cassava and honey , see Chambers and Singer 1980 ) . |
| 11 | They do not , however , collect bone , and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone . |
| 12 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 13 | There were Polish and Dutch boats as well as the Scottish , but they mostly packed their catch to take home . |
| 14 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 15 | There existed other newspapers aimed at the European market , such as the daily Tanganyika Opinion and the weekly Tanganyika Advertiser , but their circulations were low and they mostly disappeared long before independence . |
| 16 | They mostly feed at dawn and dusk , so try feeding yours at these times , offering earthworms and pieces of fish . |
| 17 | soc : Yes , but they mostly seem to have people like you assessing the proposals . |
| 18 | What they mostly overlooked was the possibility of using state power to allocate credit to specific sectors — shipbuilding in Korea , for example , or steel in Taiwan — or for special groups of borrowers — the chaebol and more recently the smaller , export-oriented Korean firms . |
| 19 | They mostly consisted of Camberwell students . |
| 20 | Herbs are one of the best groups of plants to grow in containers on the whole , as they mostly take very kindly to this form of cultivation . |
| 21 | They mostly make you talk . ’ |
| 22 | " Your fever deaths too are high again — or are they mostly concealed suicides ? " |
| 23 | And and or or remained stationary but they mostly went up a copper or so every and this was er a real thorn in the side of the employers you know , they wanted to get rid of this and they could n't . |
| 24 | ‘ And they mostly talk in Welsh and I do n't understand them , so I do n't care . |
| 25 | They mostly think they 're marvellous and act lordly and gallop about being pillars of the community . ’ |
| 26 | They mostly involve fish because for some reason deep sea menace is more devastating , although the cerebral and digestive organs of land-based creatures still rate as moderately terrifying . |
| 27 | There is no particular reason why they should , but that is what they mostly like to do . |
| 28 | Yet when people think of lighting they mostly think of lights or lamps — the actual fittings — rather than of a flexible medium , just like heat , which can be manipulated by the flick of a switch or a turn of a dimmer . |
| 29 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
| 30 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |