Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not opposed to links when they 're relevant , I 've in fact argued and encouraged them and defended them where they 've taken place and I believe that they were important but I do n't believe in them taking place where they 're irrelevant and er where they er are unhelpful . |
| 2 | She went to a different school from us , a convent school , where they had to wear uniform . |
| 3 | In April a further court ruling ordered the release of 19 soldiers who had been arrested , whereupon the two survivors of the massacre who in January had returned from Mexico — where they had sought asylum [ ibid. ] — felt obliged to seek church protection . |
| 4 | Member states could be in breach of these duties where they had enacted legislation requiring or encouraging undertakings to act contrary to Articles 85 or 86 or reinforcing the effects of such conduct . |
| 5 | When you electrolyse water it splits into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen : positively charged hydrogen ions are attracted to the negatively charged terminal , the cathode , where they react to form hydrogen gas , and the oxygen forms at the positive terminal , the anode . |
| 6 | Now the few surviving members of the once thriving club have just two rooms behind The Institute pub where they meet to play snooker and enjoy an all-male sanctuary . |
| 7 | They are , however , living close by and were last spotted further up the valley , where they have taken residence in another barn ! |
| 8 | Moreover , hospital early discharge schemes have been slow to develop , yet are immensely popular where they have taken root . |
| 9 | The Department of Employment 's survey of women who were of working age in 1980 ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) presents much evidence to explain why most women do not complete lengthy periods of pensionable service and why , where they have had access to occupational pension benefits , they tend to end up with lower weekly rates of pension and smaller lump sums than their male contemporaries . |
| 10 | It it 's obviously wrong that where they have had access , lawful or otherwise , that the that they should n't be interfering with the rights and the ability of the walkers to walk along that route . |
| 11 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 12 | Sometimes examinations , where they did take place , were not a very searching test of ability . |
| 13 | Girls play in small groups of ‘ best friends ’ , where they learn to maximise intimacy and minimise conflict . |
| 14 | A legal problem has arisen here in respect of defendants who ‘ could not care less ’ whether the woman was not consenting : we have seen that such men can be convicted of rape in cases where they achieve penetration , but there is a problem in convicting them of attempted rape where they fail to achieve penetration but clearly intended to do so . |
| 15 | The only real alternatives to the Pitcairn plume containing recycled continental or sedimentary material are that the magmas have assimilated sediment in crustal magma chambers or they have exchanged oxygen during subsequent submarine weathering . |
| 16 | So there 'd be delay in probate unless the children have got the money , so they have to borrow against the property or they have to raise money to pay the bill . |
| 17 | My Lord m may I add one further matter , er , My Lord may I say on behalf of the family er the that your Lordship 's comments will be very gratefully received er , neither Mr or Mrs , although they 've sought recognition for what they 've done for their daughter , they did it out of their fond love for her but nevertheless having such a and such comment from your Lordship will be very , very good . |
| 18 | It 's the Holst arrangement , although they 've got anther version of it in there , which is n't Holst . |
| 19 | Neither card in fact , although they do give mention of the associates for both men , neither card says that associate of the other . |
| 20 | " Ah , no , although they do represent food and , well , family prestige , all these sacrifices are essentially offerings to the gods . |
| 21 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 22 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 23 | The South African budget for this year gives university researchers less than they need to keep pace with inflation and allocates most of the additional spending on science to applied work in government laboratories , dashing hopes of a significant increase in university funding . |
| 24 | James , Lewis and Allison ( 1987 ) document the growth of concessions related to capital transfer tax and conclude that , like its predecessor estate duty , it is ‘ a voluntary tax paid only by those who dislike[d] their relatives even more than they disliked paying tax ’ ( p. 45 ) |
| 25 | She was worrying that they 'd made love at the wrong time of the month . |
| 26 | She had n't told Julie about her hopes for a reconciliation with Ross — nor , of course , about the fact that they 'd made love to each other . |
| 27 | Many of the players in the Olympic cricket match were n't even aware that they 'd taken part in the Olympic Games at all . |
| 28 | It did n't reflect well on Lily and him that they 'd thrown Renée out . |
| 29 | A recent survey of computer managers in the UK gave the rather obvious answer that they kept missing project deadlines because of shortcomings in the following areas : CAUSE RANKING Program Maintenance 1 Estimating 2 Staff Shortage 3 Project Management 4 Planning 5 What was not considered in the results of the survey were the following further considerations , which in my experience are at least as significant . |
| 30 | Two of them spontaneously told Dr Tervahauta that they wished to commit suicide instead of ‘ living like animals ’ . |