Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 2 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 3 | If they became tied agents they were authorised to do business through the life office which took them on ; the life office , in turn , was responsible for their conduct . |
| 4 | They were on Oh and there was the er where the Midland Bank is , there was a cafe there and they sold odd things you know . |
| 5 | If they make stable contacts they pull the sheet to the site of contact , but others merely lose contact and are withdrawn . |
| 6 | The point at issue is , then , that companies are able to make choices which have important social consequences : they make private decisions which have public results . |
| 7 | They are redundant , but not because the world can be described in terms of eternal " propositions which are true or false in virtue of being the propositions they are , but because they advertise certain claims which can equally successfully be conveyed implicitly , viz. by asserting the proposition or its negation , as the case may be . |
| 8 | Psychiatrists themselves are not certain exactly how they work but they replace certain amines which appear to be low in those suffering depression . |
| 9 | Their expertise is incredible and on many occasions they defeated Spanish invaders who were armed with swords and lances . |
| 10 | The danger is that to give their advice some reality they suggest minor changes which have then to be included . |
| 11 | There was no retrospective talk from the management about the players they had lost , instead they found new players who made a tremendous impact , and Scotland were consequently able to reshape their whole style and pattern of play . |
| 12 | These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell . |
| 13 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 14 | If they say black cards you say ‘ Good , so I will keep them and take the red cards away ’ . |
| 15 | They say drug-abusing mothers who would previously have had an abortion are bearing sickly babies with low chances of survival . |
| 16 | In this guise they embody fundamental truths which are permanent throughout time and space . |
| 17 | They dropped specially-adapted mines which it was hoped would , if they missed the Tirpitz , roll down the steep slopes of the fjord and still cause damage . |
| 18 | There they joined Japanese geologists who had also come to McMurdo Station that season to search for meteorites . |
| 19 | Managers are paid more than workers because they face constant dilemmas which they have to resolve . |
| 20 | Quantitative limits were also thought to restrict competition as they hampered efficient banks who were in a position to create new deposits . |
| 21 | particularly the length of time that was away I was really sure that had got on to incidentally it 's worth saying that the B B C re they do they use professional readers who make a report on every piece they receive and they file them . |
| 22 | However , they are limited in that they create artificial contexts which may not provide a good basis for predicting performance in other settings . |
| 23 | The former were patient , they set small goals they could meet , stuck to their personally-devised diet plans and took regular exercise . |
| 24 | I think , I think your find that a lot of these big , big money people get paid according to results , and if they get good results they get good money . |
| 25 | All require annual servicing by skilled tradesmen , and all except electric heaters need an adequate air supply for combustion , and they produce toxic gases which must be safely dispersed to the outside air . |
| 26 | Rosin and Glatt ( 1971 ) differentiated between primary factors which caused chronic , long-term alcohol abuse , chiefly pathological personality characteristics such as neuroticism , and what they called reactive factors which were particularly relevant for late-onset drinkers . |
| 27 | The total ban on all vehicles including cycles will run from 10.30am to 4pm and they stressed disabled drivers who get into the area before 10.30 would be able to stay for three hours before driving out . |
| 28 | Writing appears to demand that they use muscular movements which are not natural to them . |
| 29 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 30 | They use numeric pagers which have been pre-programmed with specific codes for each type of message . |