Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] they [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice . |
| 2 | What do ordinary readers think , when their eyes catch the fact that someone they know is concerned with a police inquiry into crime ? |
| 3 | The Japanese are commended for making sure that everything they produce is strictly kosher . |
| 4 | We will introduce legislation designed to give consumers confidence that what they purchase is properly described — and that adequate compensation is offered where these requirements are not met . |
| 5 | All over the world ordinary people are marching , demonstrating , making their voices heard , letting the people in power know that what they want is a peaceful world for themselves and their children . |
| 6 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 7 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 8 | A trade union education that is — as some have rightly advocated — open to members as well as representatives , broad-based and educational rather than narrow and role-specific , continuing and recurrent rather than ad hoc and disparate , will itself produce limited and ephemeral results unless working people can see that what they learn is also practised in their own organisations . |
| 9 | In other words , different pupils will follow different curricula so that what they learn is ‘ appropriate to their individual levels of ability ’ . |
| 10 | The Muddles have acquired a site of undeveloped agricultural land west of Birmingham which is well served by motorways and which they believe is perfect for building the ultimate racecourse . |
| 11 | Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer . |
| 12 | and what they hope is that most it has sort of been has disappeared by the time it gets to us |
| 13 | Girls , Millett argues , are fully cognisant of male supremacy long before they see their brother 's penis ; and what they envy is not the penis , but the things to which having a penis gives the boy access — power , status and rewards . |
| 14 | They knew I was catching the plane ; they came running in from all over the place with their big zoom lenses and what they want is : the butterfly 's wings are broken , so let's get a picture of her face . |
| 15 | Yeah , this , this is interesting , it gets confusing perhaps because erm , I rang British Section , British Section today erm , enquiring about er , ah , there it is , were , were are we , erm enquiring about er groups having two prisoners you brought this up last time and as the result of me talking to somebody there erm , it became clear that British Section still showed us as having Sabri Lushe as a prisoner , erm and they were n't aware that we were no longer dealing with him , he 'd been released , and what they say is they usually get conformation from International Secretarium |
| 16 | The first is the market research model in which clients and potential clients are asked what services they would find helpful and what they think is wrong with current provision and how they think it might be improved . |
| 17 | This is proving not to be the case , as feelings run increasingly high over what is evolving into a conflict of classes — between pro-hunting locals and what they feel is a wealthy Parisian clique . |
| 18 | to work together and deliver an effective result because nobody gains anything in the eyes of the people of this county by allowing this thing to go on and on and on and what they feel is if we ca n't get to grips with it what on earth are we doing with our existence . |
| 19 | He spends as much time out of the house as possible , and what they do is too subtle for him to notice . |
| 20 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 21 | They are second messengers are intracellular compounds , for example cyclic A M P , or ions , for example calcium , and what they do is they couple stimuli to responses , they couple a specific stimulus , each one a specific stimulus to a specific cellular response . |
| 22 | and what they do is all this typical regimented structures and regimented bloody this and that run like the fucking civil service |
| 23 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 24 | mm , the thing is though , that was n't a Court hearing yesterday and whatever they say is gon na incriminate them so if they want to ask them questions they 've got ta take them to Court have n't they ? |
| 25 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 26 | If what they say is derogatory , then that opinion ( false or unfair as it may be ) will be registered in the child 's subconscious mind and will grow and expand as he approaches adulthood . |
| 27 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 28 | Maybe Brian but what they want is initial contact point for somebody . |
| 29 | The thought pleases me but what they think is irrelevant really ; it 's Marcus that I 'm saving myself for . |
| 30 | They reforest it but what they reforest is eucalyptus or |