Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | This deprives the zooxanthellae in their tissues of oxygen , light and food and they quickly die and are cast off by their invertebrate host . |
| 2 | Hindsight throws a retrospective shadow over people and events which distort light and shade as they were actually perceived at the time . |
| 3 | Indonesian conservationists have reported that at least 1,000 orang-utangs have been smuggled from the country 's forests via Singapore to Taiwan , where they are popular as pets before they grow to adult size . |
| 4 | Neoclassicism allowed that some offenders were less guilty than others because they were less responsible . |
| 5 | The Vasiliki ware included some peculiar long-spouted ‘ teapots ’ and jugs : the spouts have distinctive upturned sides and a curious joint or articulation before they join the main body of the vessel . |
| 6 | Reactivity : The alkenes are much more reactive than alkanes because they are ‘ unsaturated ’ ( have double bonds in their structure ) . |
| 7 | No doubt Lenin was mistaken in assuming that administrative functions ( control and accounting ) were so simple and routine that they could be accomplished without special professional training and experience . |
| 8 | The rest of the maids had been threatened with hell-fire and damnation if they breathed a word . |
| 9 | It is a matter of politics as much as education whether they grasp the flow of history and understand how events flow into one another . |
| 10 | He shook his head , his eyes dark as glass as they studied her . |
| 11 | ‘ Children are not so serious as grown-ups and they love to laugh . ’ |
| 12 | Her eyes were so wide-set and widely-opened that they consumed half her face in a dazzling pool of greenish-blue radiance . |
| 13 | Join Zitz , Rash and Pimple as they tackle the evil Dark Queen . |
| 14 | The girl was already in England , but was brought back to Ireland by her parents , who faced a fine or imprisonment if they ignored the injunction . |
| 15 | I had read the pamphlets and knew of relaxation , meditation , imaging , healing and counselling but they meant little to me . |
| 16 | It was the ambition of Vladimir and his son Yaroslav to create at Kiev a city as fine as Constantinople and they planned monasteries , churches and schools . |
| 17 | Those who have this skill are usually no brighter or cleverer than others but they do have an element in their make up which others lack — they are organised . |
| 18 | These are more effective than shampoos because they are applied directly to the scalp and left on for longer . |
| 19 | Very few food poisoning bacteria grow if they are colder than 5°C and they are killed if heated above 63°C . |
| 20 | Last season , the cherry and whites or black and reds as they were scored 12-9 , thanks to this winning try from Paul Ashmead . |
| 21 | Now the GA aerodrome is no more , the ATZ has vanished from the charts , and the good citizens of Grimbergen are finding they have exchanged the gentle putter of Lycomings and Continentals for the full-throated roar of northbound RR- , GE- and P & W-powered 747s and Airbuses as they thunder over their rooftops after take-off from Brussels ' Runway 25R . |
| 22 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 23 | No the er I think there as good as Vax but they 're not as cheap |
| 24 | For them , women were as good as men because they were no different from men . |
| 25 | ‘ You have n't heard the end of this , ’ he ground out , his eyes black as pitch as they locked on her face . |
| 26 | If such an interpretation were accepted , such stamps can be viewed as more than decoration as they become symbols conveying information about family . |
| 27 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 28 | Little more than children when they first arrived . |
| 29 | Our results would support this viewpoint as men where found to be more lateralised than women and they have poorer language ability , but superior visual ability . |
| 30 | Our four English mystics may lack the imaginative and mythical depths of the great Kabbalists and Sufis , they may not be as daring and extreme as Eckhart and they certainly do not have the lyrical passion of the sixteenth century Spanish mystics St Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) and St John of the Cross ( 1542–91 ) , but they bear witness to the profundity and intelligence of the new English spirituality of their day . |