Example sentences of "[noun] they do [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No move was ever made to introduce flexible or partial retirement which would allow older people to reduce the amount of work they did and to choose for themselves finally when to retire . |
| 2 | Prospective payment systems have the advantage that health care suppliers are paid for the amount of work they do and are encouraged to control the cost per case . |
| 3 | ‘ The aim of the programme is to assist them to improve the quality of the work they do and raise efficiency by giving them the task of analysing their own and their colleagues ’ activities and producing improvements . |
| 4 | When employees are dissatisfied with aspects of formal organisation ( eg. they dislike the work they do or the person they work for ) they are likely to rely more and more heavily on an informal organisation at work to satisfy their personal needs in their work situation . |
| 5 | Our members are proud of the job they do and this is about the quality of that job . |
| 6 | But his skill at political in-fighting and his doctrinal tussles with Mensheviks and renegade Bolsheviks only took on the importance they did because they led his party to positions which found a response within the wider revolutionary movement . |
| 7 | I meet some of the bad ones er and see the work tat they do and I agree tat things are n't quite as they should be . |
| 8 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
| 9 | And I 'm sure that when we go down the road we can Although i we 're always ready to look at erm car drivers and some of the stupid things they do and some of the stupid things that they do which annoy us , at the end of the day w you 've still got to bear in mind that erm there are people in our own fraternity , as it were , that er do n't do as they should . |
| 10 | Now if we take it just one step further , there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research , what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful I suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps were n't quite so honest and open and truthful . |
| 11 | ‘ Even clothes washing and bed making were frequently mentioned by husbands as things they did as well . ’ |
| 12 | Even clothes washing and bed-making , still ordinarily thought of as women 's jobs , were frequently mentioned by husbands as things they did as well . |
| 13 | like he sticking up his head they did and er course the kids said they was going to get th , and he |
| 14 | In artistic ways they do because the records are successful but I 'm tired of being broke , very tired of that , and it 's especially hurtful when you meet so many in the industry who do n't have quite your status but are laughably rich . ’ |
| 15 | In theory they do but in practice they never have . |
| 16 | In every case the farmer reporting evidence said he was not against badgers in principle , but wanted either adequate compensation for the damage they did or someone to control them , because they had no natural predators . |
| 17 | There was little point in my merely presenting a Moonie world-view — the Moonies themselves can do that — but I did want to try to make their religion and its effects comprehensible to others who wanted to understand how well-educated and intelligent people from ‘ good homes ’ could lead the kind of life they did because they had come to believe that a strange Korean was the Messiah and must be obeyed . |
| 18 | That is the training they do whilst they are basically on the job . |
| 19 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 20 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
| 21 | If you want to understand more about the society in which you live , if you are curious about why groups of people behave the way they do or hold particular sets of beliefs , if you are intrigued by how societies change , then Sociology may be your kind of subject . |
| 22 | Learning theory says that people behave in the way they do because of their past learning experiences , and that learning can be organised and planned to produce and eliminate particular behaviours . |
| 23 | Males continue to court in the way they do because if a male were to stop producing part of the species ' typical display , females would not mate with him . |
| 24 | Allow this clause to go through unamended and there is a serious danger that a future Home Secretary 's friends on a police authority could indicate that if a chief officer did not see things the way they did and that of the government of the day his contract might not be renewed . |
| 25 | Everybody was smoking the way they did when cigarettes were glamorous . |
| 26 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 27 | They looked just the way they did when they turned to the altar on Sunday mornings . |