Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In flocks mixed with those of lapwings , for example , the observant gulls will steal food from the plovers , and on lakes they will steal food brought to the surface by diving coots . |
| 2 | Britain told the Arabs they would receive independence in return for help in the struggle against the Turks . |
| 3 | Floy had spent several hours in deep discussion with Snodgrass and , between them , they had made an attempt to sketch out the layout of Tara , so that they could see if there were any weak areas they might make use of . |
| 4 | When the public buy the bonds or bills they will draw money from their banks . |
| 5 | Through their properties of adherence to vascular or foreign surfaces and their aggregation with other platelets they can initiate haemostasis . |
| 6 | After about 30 years they would support ling and heather , then gorse would become established . |
| 7 | Today the Samaritans and Citizens Advice bureaus in Herefordshire launched a campaign to tell farmers they can get help to cope with their problems . |
| 8 | If there are two guns they should stand side by side on the edge of the burrow , one shooting to the right and the other to the left , so that neither is endangered by whatever the other fellow does . |
| 9 | For some parents , spoiling their child is one of the ways they can express relief at having someone to care for . |
| 10 | At some frequencies even the best optical fibre available will absorb or scatter light , whereas at other frequencies they will pass light with almost no attenuation or scattering . |
| 11 | In extreme cases they can suffer brain damage or die . |
| 12 | Themes are a splendid way of giving exhibitors a bias ; it challenges them to put on their thinking caps and at times they can find material with only a subtle connection . |
| 13 | In some instances they might use agency workers — particularly when office skills are sought — or casual workers — particularly when the tasks are of short duration . |
| 14 | Thus wars result from authoritarian government , while the peaceful conduct of foreign affairs is a function of liberal democracy — for if the people are properly informed on foreign-policy issues they will choose peace over war . |
| 15 | If companies achieve any or all of these benefits they will increase productivity and lower the cost of making any specified output level . |
| 16 | THE POPE has told Roman Catholic priests they should receive sex education to understand their own sexual urges and the confessions of their flocks . |
| 17 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |
| 18 | The ventral interradial areas are covered by spinelets similar to the dorsal side although they are usually smaller and in some specimens they may resemble rugose granules . |
| 19 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |