Example sentences of "they [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was intended to help them return to civilian life until they round employment and , to conform with the allowances they had received in the services , this sum included additions for dependants . |
| 2 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 3 | They fear plans to widen the availability of alcohol licenses could see off many traditional pubs . |
| 4 | They know that the foreigners have no love for a country that pays them and despises them , and they fear looting and riots . |
| 5 | However , states are often under pressure to act because they fear history will turn against them if they do not . |
| 6 | During my researches for material to complete this book I have found that railwaymen in particular have been reluctant to allow their names to be used in a story , and have sometimes insisted that even the name of the location be changed ; perhaps they fear leg pulling from their workmates ! |
| 7 | GOVERNORS at two linked comprehensive schools in Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire , have voted unanimously to seek opting-out status because they fear moves to introduce selection and impose grammar schools . |
| 8 | This is partly because they fear women in such positions simply get incorporated into the structures as they exist , and merely reproduce the same decisions as the dominant male group . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough people fear crime generally more than other boroughs , but they fear burglary in particular . |
| 10 | If they fear Chaos , they begin to mutate in horrible and painful ways . |
| 11 | The death of Shio Tyiven , 26 , in Mount Vernon Hospital , Hillingdon , west London , yesterday will further focus attention on efforts by more than 3,000 Alevi Kurds to avoid being returned to Turkey , where they fear persecution . |
| 12 | ‘ They fear loads of hippies going with cans of Special Brew , but that 's not true , ’ he said . |
| 13 | They fear patients will suffer if new arrangements under consideration are introduced in any shape or form . |
| 14 | Often they fear ridicule or a rebuttal . |
| 15 | We all know people who want trade union protection , but dare not join because they fear victimization . |
| 16 | They fear victimization especially if the harasser is their boss or someone senior to them . |
| 17 | They fear torture , sexual brutality and death at the hands of organised death squads allegedly paid by tradesmen to ‘ clean up ’ the streets . |
| 18 | Forestry workers say that they fear injury , or even death , from metal splinters . |
| 19 | They fear Taiwan will become like Hong Kong , whose stock exchange oscillates every time Beijing clears its throat . |
| 20 | Subordinates who accept the instructions of their superiors because they recognize its legitimacy rather than because they fear coercion are participating in the transformation of power into authority ( Pfeffer 198 1 , pp. 4–5 ) . |
| 21 | They fear drainage work for the 10 acre development could dry out Brinkburn Pond , destroying the thriving community of Greater Crested Newts , a protected species . |
| 22 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |
| 23 | But Conservatives in the ruling coalition dislike the idea because they fear losses at the polls next year to the far-right Republicans . |
| 24 | The poor have children because they fear sickness , old age , unemployment . |
| 25 | By paying claims in advance , they fear Mr Outhwaite could pay more in the long term . |
| 26 | Other Tory MPs admit privately that an elected authority for London makes sense ; they fear Mr Kinnock has stolen a march on them . |
| 27 | SAFETY watchdogs have banned a toy which they fear children could mistake for a sweet and choke on . |
| 28 | They harvest currency by toiling silently before flickering screens , pressing keys like rosaries , or pushing papers ritually around office desks . |
| 29 | In this context , we may note , attempts to account for poststructuralism in terms of the aftermath of the events of May 68 seem positively myopic , lacking the very historical perspective to which they lay claim . |
| 30 | These lovely girls with long fair hair were actually blood-sucking VAMPIRES who preyed exclusively upon young men as they lay sleeping . |