Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , physicians can wander where they wish and prise secrets from others . |
| 2 | I say I worked , but I mean it was for a charity which ran one of these centres where they try and help the socially deprived . |
| 3 | The flies lay their eggs mostly on the hairs of the horse 's legs , where they hatch and enter the horse 's mouth when it scratches itself . |
| 4 | They go where they want and do whatever they like . |
| 5 | However , there are times to leave practice ground ideas where they belong and play golf with your present swing , plus one simple key thought for the day . |
| 6 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 7 | At some time in their lives , almost all have cause to visit the local health centre or hospital where they see and meet staff at work . |
| 8 | Roll up other side to meet it and then moisten both rolls with water where they meet and press them firmly together . |
| 9 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 10 | Yeah or they go and put their foot on it and trip over . |
| 11 | As for the Gascons , they are gossipy , licentious , and poorly dressed ; although they eat and drink far too much they do n't sit at table but squat around a fire ; they all share the same cup and when they go to sleep they all share the same rotting straw , master and mistress , servants and all . |
| 12 | Although they feel and look good on the skin at the time , by attracting water from the air , they also tend to attract water from within the outer layers of the skin too . |
| 13 | One set of issues has to do with the way in which science and technology so drastically alter previous patterns of life that they erode and undermine the social , ethical and spiritual values which had been encapsulated and preserved in them . |
| 14 | So why has WHO headquarters , which is funded by member states to give advice on setting health policy , used its limited resources to organise a meeting for setting policy on a controversial technology , and invited as participants , with one exception , people whose only qualification is that they develop and provide that same technology ? |
| 15 | They must be empowered to demand excellence in the courses that they attend and realise that their education is not a favour to them but a means of preparing them to be the sort of doctors that we want in the future . |
| 16 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 17 | For companies that have kept at a specified size over the years , working to budgets that they know and understand , are forced to expand to deal with the increased flow . |
| 18 | Both Constitutions are strong ones in that they reflect and reinforce their respective political cultures . |
| 19 | All the Pain that Money Can Buy : the Life of Christina Onassis by William Wright ( Gollancz , £5.99 ) — The author 's explanation of why people devour books about the rich is appropriately cynical : ‘ We examine their bounteous lives on the modest condition that they suffer and come to a bad end . ’ |
| 20 | Most businesses rely on two complementary forces to ensure that they maintain and raise their standards . |
| 21 | The knowledge that they control and select teams , and valuable ‘ wild card ’ slots , whether explicit or implied , is hard for parents to ignore . |
| 22 | Several were almost tharn — that is , in that state of staring , glazed paralysis that comes over terrified or exhausted rabbits , so that they sit and watch their enemies — weasels or humans — approach to take their lives . |
| 23 | Most people know that they hawk and feed on other flies . |
| 24 | There 's the big fire where everybody must put on something that they love and watch it burn . |
| 25 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 26 | Casters are the better of the two for the reason that they sink and remain still on the bottom until they are eaten . |
| 27 | Finally , place the ladders on the board carefully , making sure that they start and end on squares of the same colour . |
| 28 | Sadoon Hamadi , the new prime minister , said at a press conference : ‘ What is intended to starve the Iraqi people so that they revolt and change their leader Saddam Hussein . ’ |
| 29 | It is a feature of modern administration in medical care at any level , whether the team on the ward or the hospital board or any other body , that they assert and seek to defend what they see as a right to autonomy and self-government , while using and distributing to a greater or lesser extent public resources . |
| 30 | For this reason , archaeologists bear a heavy responsibility to make comprehensive records of everything that they find and observe , because no one else will ever have another chance to do so . |