Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this they would leave their trades and rush to join the fourteen ‘ seine ’ boats and the fourteen ‘ volyers ’ that followed the seine boats in pursuit of the shoals . |
| 2 | Maybe if more people did this they would think twice before harming it . |
| 3 | From this they would graduate to reading and summarising the records of past negotiations and finally to preparing detailed memoranda on various aspects of French foreign policy . |
| 4 | In this they would follow the hugely popular and successful Italian Serie A league , where transfers are limited to the summer break between seasons and a short five-day ‘ window ’ in November . |
| 5 | Against this they would have to offset the cost of credit control which , in the light of these figures , would still be profitable . |
| 6 | For this they would receive $315,000 . |
| 7 | To do this they would need lots of wood or charcoal . |
| 8 | For this they would require the written permission of the owners , and a police permit . |
| 9 | In this they might have taken heed of the Reich 's experience , but instead they went ahead and repeated that experience in miniature . |
| 10 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 11 | In this they may have been not entirely alone , but it is a serious charge , and it would be a brave man who would assert that it could not be substantiated for the British audio-visual scene as well . |
| 12 | It was Ana who drew you here and even though Devlin is behind all this they will expect an article . ’ |
| 13 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 14 | And I was afraid that whatever I say would go back to the and if they hear this they will punish me . |
| 15 | • Patients are asked to go to bed 3 hours later each ‘ night ’ and get up 3 hours later each ‘ morning ’ — this they will find easy , of course . |
| 16 | In this they will find enthusiastic allies within the Third World in the political sphere , in the bureaucracy and in business circles , who might prefer cash crops ( see Burnell , 1986 , ch.3 ) . |
| 17 | As soon as the seeds germinate , the tray must be put in a cooler position with full light supplied — if you do n't do this they will get weak and leggy and be very prone to damping off disease . |
| 18 | I have given them the danger peak flow value of 100 , and if it falls below this they will come to casualty . |
| 19 | This they can do by rallying under the Alliance motto of ‘ The Common Good ’ . |
| 20 | If parents want this they can do it themselves . |
| 21 | This they can do through a stockbroker , who will sell them via the stock market to people who want to buy such bonds . |
| 22 | Once people get hold of a thing like this they can start using it . ’ |
| 23 | For this they could blame their own indiscipline as much as Llanelli 's eagerness to take advantage of it . |
| 24 | If they 're all like this they could infect everything in the Domain . |
| 25 | From this they could create a map of the Viking world , using different symbols for settlement , raiding , trading activities , exploration , etc . |
| 26 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 27 | To do this they must assess the extent to which there are children in need ( Sched 2 , para 1 ) and plan appropriately . |
| 28 | This they must find out for themselves . |
| 29 | To be able to do this they must have tacit knowledge of the characteristics which mark off each type of situation they can identify . |
| 30 | I mean this they must have got my name through Miriam so they must already have worked out the they were working |