Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun pl] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 She felt embarrassed about this when travelling around London with younger colleagues as they frequently had to resort to a taxi if no bus were available .
2 However , sophisticated pantographs based on optical measurement of the rotation of the joints can offer much better results although they still falls short of the best systems .
3 However , sophisticated pantographs based on optical measurement of the rotation of the joints can offer much better results although they still fall short of the sort of accuracies that can be obtained by the best systems .
4 The Peugeot/Citroen diesels , sharing similar engines , are generally regarded as the pick of the bunch for refined performance in the smaller cars and they now have two fine contenders in the big car sector — the Citroen XM and the Peugeot 605 .
5 You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie .
6 He enjoyed the gradual arrival of other birds , travelling northward and up to higher grounds as they too followed the spring , the buoyant thrushes , sudden parties of blue tits in the lower valleys , and the drumming of woodpeckers from out of still leafless woods .
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