Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason for this is that they make the interpretation of information derived from assessments unproblematical . |
| 2 | This is because they reach the bloodstream via the lungs and skin and work systemically , influencing the body as a whole . |
| 3 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 4 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 5 | Another reason why the Greeks may have chosen the number 360 is because they thought the year was made up of 360 days and that the sun went round the earth once a year . |
| 6 | What is questionable is whether they make the best use of this information , particularly of that which , if they were competent to extract it , could be deduced from the companies ' published accounts . |
| 7 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 8 | The characteristic of the first four is that they have the force of law , subject to such constitutional acts as may be necessary to give them force in the territory of a particular Contracting State . |
| 9 | That was before they found the patches of damp on their own kitchen and bathroom ceilings , which , when touched with a finger , smelled unmistakably of cat-piss . |
| 10 | However , the reality for young people whom we represent in the nineteen nineties is that they face the prospects of having to survive in a declining British economy . |