Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 2 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 3 | But among them , they account for the great majority of all innovation opportunities . |
| 4 | As they work , roughs are pinned to the wall where they remain until the following day . |
| 5 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 6 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 7 | The CFCs are reasonably safe while they remain in the leakproof sealed units but not so when fridges are dumped and crushed . |
| 8 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 9 | The adult worms , bright red in colour and up to 2.5 cm in length , are easily recognised at necropsy where they predominate in the horny lining of the gizzard . |
| 10 | The relevance of these animal models is difficult to assess , as by using carcinogens such as 1,2 dimethylhydrazine ( DMH ) they concentrate on the final development of the tumour and not on the previous initiating stages of this long multistage process . |
| 11 | They concentrate on the present situation and the reaction of society and show little interest in the criminal 's background , although labelling theory does not argue that all that is involved in making someone a criminal is to call them one . |
| 12 | To be critical , the JD 's Japanese pickups are certainly less powerful than the Signature 's and , overall , they err on the empty-sounding side — a hint of extra mid-range would n't go amiss . |
| 13 | Thing about this programme it is so it is so crucial to everything that goes on at Radio York while it is happening , they eat in the other room that 's how much er interest there is they eat in the other room . |
| 14 | Thing about this programme it is so it is so crucial to everything that goes on at Radio York while it is happening , they eat in the other room that 's how much er interest there is they eat in the other room . |
| 15 | They sit with the European peoples party in parliament . |
| 16 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 17 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 18 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 19 | They change in the same society over time ; for example , when one society is at war with another , some people are actively encouraged to wound and kill other people from the enemy group . |
| 20 | They correspond to the ventral basal muscles of the maxilla . |
| 21 | Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects . |
| 22 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 23 | They land on the volcanic planet of Tigus only to discover it is not the Daleks but their old foe from 1066 , the Time Meddling Monk . |
| 24 | Whirled through the magnetic fields of space until entrapped by the Earth 's own magnetic field , they crash into the upper atmosphere shattering the nuclei of atoms and projecting fragments and other particles down to Earth . |
| 25 | In the next part , I describe Buid attitudes towards what they perceive as the intrinsic aggressiveness of their lowland Christian neighbours , before turning to the activity in which the symbolism of tranquillity and aggression receives its greatest elaboration : animal sacrifice . |
| 26 | With respect to desire , they insist on the equal value of products of the hunt and products of the garden . |
| 27 | More conservative because they clearly derive inspiration from the old WEA extra-mural model , of the tutorial class seriously , conscientiously , and at length coming to grips with conceptual insights and analytical frameworks which appear remote from the workplace , and because they insist upon the vital contribution of the professional educator . |
| 28 | Self-help schemes provide Latin American governments with a cheap solution for housing the poor , but the contribution they make to the wider socio-economic structure is more far-reaching . |
| 29 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 30 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |