Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assumes they have not used the full £40,000 in the previous tax year . |
| 2 | ‘ When this happens they do n't know what to do or where to go . ’ |
| 3 | This helps them to respond sensitively to their clients ' suggestions and to furnish a diagnosis and accusation of guilt which is highly acceptable to the victim . |
| 4 | This helps them to keep up with their subject and sometimes with their colleagues . |
| 5 | This means they slow down the volatility rate of the top and middle notes thus improving on the ‘ staying power ’ of the perfume . |
| 6 | This means they do n't do you much good , but neither do they do you any harm . |
| 7 | By this means they covered about thirty paces before they were forced to drop to the ground well away from the track . |
| 8 | This permits them to build up a picture of how the weather is changing virtually anywhere on Earth . |
| 9 | This enables them to survive in very polluted waters with low levels of oxygen . |
| 10 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 11 | This makes them appear not just personally unhappy but it presents a negative impression to their hosts . |
| 12 | This makes them stand out as new and unfamiliar against the industrial background , as if they are somehow out of place . |
| 13 | This makes them move away from each other and so tends to make the star expand . |
| 14 | Only in warmer , damper regions have they a chance to acquire the organic debris — mostly fragments of algae , fungi , lichens and mosses — that allows them to develop further into humic soils ( Figure 3.6B-D ) . |
| 15 | If England had held any one of the three catches they put down they would have won , since the three top-scoring West Indies batsmen all had a ‘ life ’ . |
| 16 | These grants however are discretionary — that means they do not have to be given so there will be variations from one district to another . |
| 17 | ‘ That means they have n't started yet but will soon . |
| 18 | That means they did n't even tell the D-G . |
| 19 | What is it about them that makes them stand out from the rest ? |
| 20 | But all the time they are hardening their muscles and sharpening their wits , so that the pretence of being grown-up helps them to grow up in earnest . ’ |