Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [to-vb] [pron] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to understand how managers perceive their role in organisations and to know what they would class as good management practice to understand why they themselves do things . |
| 2 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 3 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 4 | The problem is that most of us are so busy rushing around that we fail to become aware of those feelings and to consider what they might be telling us . |
| 5 | They are typically determined to bring about change , to introduce reforms and to reverse what they see as the mistakes of the past . |
| 6 | The junior recruits sit on the edge of the parade ground to witness the parade and to learn what they must achieve after a further four weeks ' training . |
| 7 | Going to London , to Regional Health Authority to attend present petition and to see what they do about the animals petition . |
| 8 | He prefers simply to place the issues before them , and allow them to make their own moral decisions and to choose what they might want to do . |
| 9 | Girls are brought up with calls to buy cosmetics , jewellery and clothes and to do what they can to enhance their looks . |
| 10 | Thus the adjectival goals of this study are not only ( 1 ) to describe the various adjectival constructions of English and to show what they mean , but also ( 2 ) to use this account of constructional meaning in order to explain why many particular combinations of lexical items and constructions are ungrammatical when other similar ones are not ; ( 3 ) to explain why many such combinations have the interpretations which they do ; and ( 4 ) to explain just why the above are the adjectival positions of English . |
| 11 | It was delightful — not only to hear two of them boast so loudly about the lotus-eating weekend but to see what they said so effectively and hilariously challenged by a person from a different social group . |
| 12 | As the years went by , and some of his friends became prolific writers , Dyson came to be jealous of their reputations and to scorn what they wrote . |
| 13 | He stood by his Department 's actions , and said they had had no option but to do what they did , in the way they did it . |