Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employers acknowledged that management should accept responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce them . |
| 2 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |
| 3 | First then the proposition that management should accept a responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or to reduce them . |
| 4 | Neither of these reasons for creating assemblies at the district and provincial levels implied a desire to make them broadly representative or to give them much clout , but as the draft legislation passed through the upper reaches of the government keen reformers got their hands on it . |
| 5 | But unless you can grasp the private contractors and make them cooperate within this or encourage them to do so , there 's absolutely no way you can have a so-called seamless journey . |
| 6 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 7 | Respect for their seniors was near the top of the list … however high or humble they might be . |
| 8 | However , given the existence of such a secret there is an implied duty that an employee will not disclose such secrets to another or use them himself . |
| 9 | Fourthly erm there 's the problem of coercion that is some people might be forced to cast their vote one way or another or feel they 're forced to cast a vote one way or another erm which is something we are less erm familiar with . |
| 10 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 11 | ‘ And that would be quicker than starving them ? ’ |
| 12 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 13 | What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility |
| 14 | This is much easier than keeping them in piles in a cupboard or closet . |
| 15 | It is more exciting for crowds to watch players striving mightily against one another than to watch them conniving amicably . |
| 16 | Often counselling can help them come to terms with a lot of this and help them set out a means to try and change in the future . ’ |
| 17 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 18 | Instead of hoping that experiments would eventually pile up evidence for some particular formula , he recognized that it was necessary to proceed hypothetico-deductively : to propose a structure for a given substance , then to work out consequences of this and test them . |
| 19 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 20 | Your skin is like creamy blossom and your eyes are so clear and grey they can see into the soul . |
| 21 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 22 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 23 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 24 | So I think they 're right to be suspicious , and it 's right for those people who feel they have a role it 's up to them to make it appear interesting and to show them the relevance . |
| 25 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 26 | If he 's got a job there , and he 's done it well or he 's done it badly , tell him he 's done it badly , tell them where they 've gone wrong and tell them what they should do to put it right . |
| 27 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 28 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 29 | I ca n't tell you who to love , or how to love : those school courses would be how-not-not-to as much as how-to classes ( it 's like creative writing — you ca n't teach them how to write or what to write , only usefully point out where they 're going wrong and save them time ) . |
| 30 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |