Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 2 | At times Pareto and Mosca both described elite rule as the dominance of those best at governing over the non-elite or masses , but in practice they quickly dropped the assumption that the governing elite is always a genuine aristocracy ( the rule of the best ) . |
| 3 | As we have already argued from Pahl 's ( 1984 ) study , even when women do paid work they still do the bulk of the domestic work , although it may be more equally distributed than it was when they were full-time housewives . |
| 4 | Although the members of the Tribunal may be reappointed by the Prime Minister for a further five-year period , under the Act they thus have no security of tenure , long recognized as the hallmark of judicial independence . |
| 5 | Edging their way through the densely-packed throng they finally reached the organist who carried on playing , at the same time bending down an ear in the sergeant 's direction . |
| 6 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 7 | At the moment they only had the word of Nicola 's husband for what had happened . |
| 8 | By this process they literally made the art of other communities their own . |
| 9 | During their investigation they repeatedly told the family that they must have provoked the attack . |
| 10 | ‘ When people need a goalscorer they just get the cheque-book out and offer two or three million pounds or more . |
| 11 | Although ministers have suspended moves to reduce subsidies until May , many dentists in the North-East say they still believe a reduction is on the cards . |
| 12 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 13 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 14 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's Saturday night they probably get a lot of hoax calls from drunks . ’ |
| 16 | One night they almost snapped an axle when Jed 's eyes fell shut and the car left the highway and began to lurch across dry yellow grass . |
| 17 | Even after we won the game they still ended the show with a rerun of the goal that won the Liverpool game ! ! ! |
| 18 | In their majority verdict they also expressed the view that the crime was committed under provocation . |
| 19 | More importantly , in return for supporting the Government they also extracted a promise that Scotland 's representation on this potentially very powerful body will comprise at least one representative of each of Scotland 's four major parties . |
| 20 | These individuals may be frightened by and greatly distanced from the power and authority of the state , but in an important sense they also need the state ; its appeal to a higher authority as well as its power and resources . |
| 21 | They 've become such regulars as they 've followed the national tour they now give the Star , Clayton Mark , a lift back to Cheltenham every Saturday night . |
| 22 | The butler seized the glass where upon the fairies tried to regain the cup but realising that they were no match for this mortal they finally abandoned the struggle and vanished , leaving the butler with the glass cup and according to a ballad by the German poet Uhland with this warning . |
| 23 | The old joke is that in the army they once had the message ‘ Send reinforcements we 're going to advance ’ but it became ‘ Send three and fourpence we 're going to a dance . ’ |
| 24 | To this end they repeatedly urged the government to return fugitives to their cities , and to abolish the immunities enjoyed by church and noble land in and around the cities . |
| 25 | But er , in the end they never got the license back . |
| 26 | Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later . |
| 27 | In England even when Botham was working one of his miracles people at work did not stop ; if they did not have a radio they just rang the Test score , on the works phone of course , a bit more frequently . |
| 28 | Even here a word of caution is necessary , for although medieval writers employed the Roman calendar they sometimes reckoned the Kalend , None and Ide elements in reverse order ; so that , for example , 14 January might appear not as XIX Kal Feb but as Pridi Kal Feb ( prima die kalendarum Feb ) . |
| 29 | When councils have the money to refurbish such property they then have the power to end your tenancy . |
| 30 | A Speaker takes charge of the Questions , so when a player lands on a Ballot Box they simply pick a number ( there are 120 questions for 50 , 216 questions for 25 ) and the Speaker asks questions ( giving clues if necessary but making sure no question is asked twice ) . |