Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 2 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 3 | There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman will know that we have recently announced a £10 million programme to provide grants to local authorities to enable them to give priority to buses through the construction of bus lanes and by giving priority to buses at traffic lights . |
| 5 | The 1977 white paper , Policy for the Inner Cities ( HMSO , 1977 ) , argued that additional powers should be granted to local authorities to enable them to assist industry . |
| 6 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 7 | Oh it 's obvious that safety 's involved , I think that er it 's also er road use because er if people take a long time er going forwards and back trying to get into a space to park because they do n't have the basic skills to enable them to do it , then it 's frustrating for other motorists , and obviously accidents can be caused . |
| 8 | there is a serious side to community education and it is highly political in nature , that it should be directed towards equalising political power at local level , that communities should be learning skills to enable them to work with , and if necessary to confront local bureaucracy . |
| 9 | Effective Project Management — an intensive five-day residential course for executives needing professional management skills to enable them to meet their objectives successfully . |
| 10 | It will explore how they make sense of their predicament , and how , and in what circumstances , they devise separate or joint coping strategies to enable them to survive . |
| 11 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 12 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 13 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 14 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 15 | Starting from Oct. 1 , vouchers with a value of 10,000 roubles each would be issued to all Russians to enable them to buy shares in privatized state property . |
| 16 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 17 | These included raising the age of consent to eighteen , abolishing the notorious ‘ escape clause ’ ( allowing male defendants in assault cases to claim they believed the girl to be over sixteen ) , extending the time limit for prosecutions and criminalizing incest and male importuning . |
| 18 | It is able to move on to the next stage of the action if the various relevant conditions have been satisfied and to produce documentation for court or reminders for the debt recovery unit personnel to enable them to progress matters beyond the next stage . |
| 19 | If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up . |
| 20 | ‘ But today 's more liberal attitudes mean they have the freedom to do that . |
| 21 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 22 | Once the information has been collected it should be reviewed by Newco 's solicitors to enable them to address any potential problem as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | Animal welfare groups want them outlawed all together . |
| 24 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 25 | The institutions say they intend to raise the equity weighting in their portfolios from under 10% to perhaps 15% by the mid-1990s . |
| 26 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 27 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 28 | Jamie and Becky Blandford made the announcement this morning , just two years after their wedding.The Marquis 's solicitors say they have entered what is described as a period of separation in their marriage.Their first child is due in August . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has a less than impressive record in turning developments in its laboratories into commercial products , but perhaps that will change when an outsider is installed at the helm , and IBM researchers say they have developed a polymer film that can capture and hold vast amounts of data in the form of hologram images at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current Winchester disk drives . |
| 30 | Experts say they cause unseen damage to the environment and to people . |