Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOEX news , USER news and INFUSE , from the three national clearinghouses , are in a different category in that they are not simply national but international in their coverage of news . |
| 2 | Diesel cars have many advantages over petrol driven cars in that they use less fuel , have a longer working life , and are more reliable and cheaper to maintain . |
| 3 | When national stations broadcast chiefly in the shortwaves the range of different newscasts available is immediately wider ; when people have every expectation that all broadcasts will tell some lies , they use different broadcasts as if they were radio beacons for navigators of truth : knowing the position of each , they can calculate the co-ordinates of reality with an acceptable degree of certainty . |
| 4 | In the Mediterranean , where many such frugivores overwinter , bird fruits tend not to ripen until winter , and show some of the attributes of tropical specialized fruits in that they are drier and more nutritious than northern fruits and can provide a complete diet for the birds . |
| 5 | And if you did palm it off as a fact , it would be no excuse that you had done it non-linguistically : for example , by including clips from Sherlock Holmes movies in old newsreels as if they were genuine news items . |
| 6 | UNITY Trust , the trade union bank , is preparing to offer its basic banking services to charities , many of which now face being charged by commercial banks as if they were profit-making small businesses . |
| 7 | but this is an old shop at and they 're about that big by that are n't they ? |
| 8 | It appeared that they encouraged the men not to live there , but to claim social security as if they were . |
| 9 | Both can be seen as popular traditions in that they appeal to ‘ the people ’ , but while popular interpellations tend to absorb and neutralise potentially antagonistic elements , populism tends to develop them : |
| 10 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 11 | The words ‘ sensation of white ’ are unlike a proper name in that they have connotation . |
| 12 | But I , I mean , I I think it 's true to say , that ninety-nine times out of a hundred , if you do approach these so-called yobs as if they 're human beings , they usually react like human beings . |
| 13 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 14 | Such fluctuations are of theoretical significance in that they provide a direct probe of critical phenomena in general , and a stringent test of scaling theories , which describe the approach to the critical point . |
| 15 | The expression ‘ band width ’ is used to describe links for passing electronic information as if they were pipes through which the information is pumped rather like water being distributed across a national supply network . |
| 16 | The questions are themselves tentative ( and surely incomplete ) but they are questions of a different order in that they look forward rather than backward . |
| 17 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 18 | The proposal by the President of the Commission , Jacques Delors , in Strasbourg on 17 January 1990 that the EC should treat the six East European countries as if they were backward regions of the Community and extend structural support to them brought gasps of disbelief from every government except West Germany 's . |
| 19 | The facts in the case were similar to those in the instant case in that they involved complaints made against police officers in respect of arrests made by them at the Wapping disturbances in January 1987 . |
| 20 | For example , Gergen ( 1973 ) argues that social psychologists should treat their contemporary data as if they were historical . |
| 21 | There was a carding mill at where they carded the wool you know . |
| 22 | The Awards differ from personal honours in that they are given to a " unit " as a whole — management and employees working as a team . |
| 23 | Just a few months ago , Opposition Members were telling us that trust hospitals would fail and that they should be judged by the simple test of whether they do more or less work on NHS patients . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman said that the success of the trusts must be measured ’ by the simple test of whether they do more or less work for the national health service patients . ’ |
| 25 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 26 | Others may experience a light-headed sensation as if they have had a few glasses of wine ; a few fall into a deep sleep ! |
| 27 | I am convinced by recent research findings in America and Britain that social work practice can either foster a sense of permanence or detract from it , and that in the past our treating permanent substitute families as if they were temporary has been a cause of insecurity . |
| 28 | By now , however , in the twilight of their existence on Earth , problems of climate were becoming more important , having finally a crucial bearing on whether they would continue to live on as a species , or succumb . |
| 29 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 30 | They have advantages over larger fixed pads in that they are transportable and less prone to variation caused by moisture , and they give a more uniform distribution of the radioelements . |