Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 2 | There is no particular reason why they should , but that is what they mostly like to do . |
| 3 | They do not , however , collect bone , and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone . |
| 4 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 5 | They mostly make you talk . ’ |
| 6 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
| 7 | Smaller family farmers have been neglected and offered derisory prices for the products they mostly sell ( e.g. cassava and honey , see Chambers and Singer 1980 ) . |
| 8 | Herbs are one of the best groups of plants to grow in containers on the whole , as they mostly take very kindly to this form of cultivation . |
| 9 | They mostly feed at dawn and dusk , so try feeding yours at these times , offering earthworms and pieces of fish . |
| 10 | soc : Yes , but they mostly seem to have people like you assessing the proposals . |
| 11 | Women can drive cars , taxis , buses , trucks , diggers , lawn-mowers — that sort of thing , though in the West they mostly do n't ( except cars ) because of tradition . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought , ‘ well , it 's the Boat Race , not very high-powered crews considering they mostly do other things ’ . |
| 13 | They mostly do not adequately safeguard pupils against a casual , almost literalist , understanding of symbol . |
| 14 | They mostly think they 're marvellous and act lordly and gallop about being pillars of the community . ’ |
| 15 | Yet when people think of lighting they mostly think of lights or lamps — the actual fittings — rather than of a flexible medium , just like heat , which can be manipulated by the flick of a switch or a turn of a dimmer . |
| 16 | ‘ Racing people do have flexible hours , ’ he observed , ‘ and they mostly have free afternoons . ’ |
| 17 | They mostly excel in their industry — the skill with which they irrigate their terraced hillsides with tiny runnels of water shows a considerable advancement in agriculture . |
| 18 | ‘ And they mostly talk in Welsh and I do n't understand them , so I do n't care . |
| 19 | Singing is almost entirely confined to breeding grounds , most singers are males , and they mostly sing alone . |
| 20 | They mostly involve fish because for some reason deep sea menace is more devastating , although the cerebral and digestive organs of land-based creatures still rate as moderately terrifying . |
| 21 | Animals also have tensions when they are in activity , but they instinctively know how to relax . |
| 22 | They instinctively understand the call and know , too , how and where to take cover : some below ground , some by crouching low and mimicking the earth or leaves , others flee to mother 's wing or pouch , baby crocodiles take cover in the gentle jaws of mother 's mouth . |
| 23 | The Australian initiative was rejected both by the Privy Council and the English courts , largely on the grounds that the common-law precedents were not compelling , that the full defence of self-defence should be applied indulgently in favour of those who use such force as they instinctively think necessary , and that the doctrine of provocation might be used to accommodate other cases . |
| 24 | Our knowledge and our moral values inevitably reflect and are marked by our own finitude and all its limitations , and to scale religion down to them is to sow the seeds of fanaticism and intolerance by giving them a more absolute standing than they properly deserve . |
| 25 | When God is posited as the First Cause , the very ideas of cause and effect are being torn out of the context in which they properly belong , that of the perceived regularities in the world of which we are aware . |
| 26 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 27 | The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts , themselves ensembles which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope they properly consult the public , local authorities and political parties . |
| 29 | What they can provide , if they successfully attach to money or property which is about to be disposed of , is security for the sum sued for together with interest and expenses . |
| 30 | ( c ) Add examples and supporting factual detail only insofar as they successfully illustrate and substantiate the main points . |