Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful 20 progressed to the International Open , where they competed with foreign challengers for places in the Grand Prix . |
| 2 | In hormonal communication , substances synthesized in one place are carried , by fluid flow , to another , where they act as chemical signals . |
| 3 | Both men left hurriedly for their meeting place with the LRDG where they waited in vain for a week for stragglers to come in . |
| 4 | car hirers were not ‘ trafficking in litigation ’ where they agreed with potential plaintiffs whose cars were damaged in motor accidents and under repair , to supply them with free replacement vehicles provided the plaintiffs co-operated with the hirers in prosecuting claims against defendants and paid them the hiring charges from the damages they received . |
| 5 | Earthworms as their name implies , live in tunnels which they burrow in the earth , where they feed on decaying plant matter . |
| 6 | But they are for ever moving and , where they meet in head-on collision , in what is known as a subduction zone , they produce one of the great geological dramas of the planet . |
| 7 | The thermal tide could carry molecules generated by solar uv radiation to the night side where they revert to other forms with the emission of uv radiation . |
| 8 | Every year , pupils in year 10 have the opportunity to undertake work experience — a period of two weeks in a chosen environment where they learn about real work and the responsibilities that go with it . |
| 9 | From the beginning of the course and throughout the three years , students spend one half day per week in schools ( a different school each term ) where they work with small groups of children under the guidance of teachers and tutors . |
| 10 | They originate from pluripotent bone marrow stem cells and migrate through peripheral blood to tissues and body cavities where they differentiate into specialised cells showing great diversity of phenotopic and functional characteristics . |
| 11 | In network analysis , because G(s) relates to a signal that is a real function of time , the poles and zeros are either real or they occur as complex conjugate pairs . |
| 12 | Both sources have been neglected by researchers , although they survive in large numbers , and contain very valuable evidence bearing on the British Industrial Revolution , its causes , and its effects on the standard of living . |
| 13 | Although they metamorphose like terrestrial insects , they have a lung-bladder which sucks in air or extracts oxygen from liquid . |
| 14 | Although they belonged to different generations , and though Wilkins was deeply indebted to Galileo for his telescopic observations , the comparison is nevertheless illuminating . |
| 15 | The smaller species of mustelid , although they prey on small mammals , eat little of the bone , and they frequently catch and eat prey larger than themselves . |
| 16 | Although they struggled for long periods against the same Turkey side England beat 4-0 last month , Graham Taylor — watching from the stands — said : ‘ Of the three results possible , this was the worst one . |
| 17 | The Foundation 's funds , although they arise in modest sums from events such as the concerts and total not much more than £300,000 , have a disproportionate effect in use . |
| 18 | Although they rely upon sophisticated , on-board computer technology , they are emphatically designed to be ‘ non-computers ’ as far as potential customers are concerned . |
| 19 | The ionizing radiations to which people are subject are of varying types and , although they interact with living matter in a similar way , different types of radiation differ in their effectiveness in damaging a biological system . |
| 20 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there are clear overall safety benefits from these approaches , which lead accidents in residential areas to fail more than they rise on peripheral roads . |
| 22 | When the money supply is increased , people find themselves holding more than they need for current transactions and so attempt to spend the excess . |
| 23 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 24 | Moreover , counties take more spinners into four-day matches than they do into three-day games and to win the Championship two decent spin bowlers are essential in a year of normal weather . |
| 25 | For instance , it is commonly supposed that trees and shrubs colour better on acid soils than they do on alkaline . |
| 26 | In other words , although they suppress the aberrant antibody , they suppress other antibody production too and also the production of blood cells , yet they seem to have a greater effect on the abnormal antibody than they do on normal ones and in quite large numbers of patients that have been treated in this way the side effects are really relatively slight . |
| 27 | But as Irene said : ‘ Children respond much more to love and affection than they do to physical punishment . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Children respond much more to love and affection than they do to physical punishment ’ — Irene Bell |
| 29 | Both grass and clovers recover and grow more quickly when grazed hard for a short period and then rested for two to three weeks than they do under continuous nibbling . |
| 30 | Three close neighbours from north-west Europe provide instructive comparisons which say more about political attitudes than they do about natural advantages for cycling as a mode of transport . |