Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 2 | It was n't until 8 pm. that they let the Red Cross through . |
| 3 | Apple liked the idea so much that they invested a 20% stake in Adobe making themselves the largest customer . |
| 4 | Glider designers sometimes choose to fit a tail-skid rather than a wheel for simplicity and cheapness , saying quite rightly that they offer a little less drag . |
| 5 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 6 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 7 | and he treated his horse well I mean a lot of these horseman , good horseman treated the horse better than they did the wife ! |
| 8 | ‘ People realise deep down that they have the talent to be among the best in the world . |
| 9 | So if that management committee decides in a year 's time or two year 's time thank you when when we 've been rolling on a bit and a lot of this has died down that they want a single headed project . |
| 10 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 11 | The game itself is all about fitting blocks together so they make a nice tidy brick wall . |
| 12 | The rubber takes a grip on the shell and forces it between the rollers , which are set at just the right distance apart so that they crack the shell without damaging the kernel . |
| 13 | Applying the principles of the 12 Steps in all aspects of life so that they become a natural way of life and provide the capacity to live happily and confidently without the need for mood-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 14 | Compacts should strongly recommend that trade unionists should be released on full pay to work with teachers and students so that they gain a balanced understanding of how industry works . |
| 15 | The tools are designed to provide developers with a superset of features from the varied operating systems , so that they gain the value of unique operating system characteristics , yet still deliver portable applications — for example , a common programming interface set enables a programmer to write a single application that supports the Macintosh , OSF/Motif , Presentation Manager , Windows , or future graphical user interfaces . |
| 16 | The tools are designed to provide developers with a superset of features from the varied operating systems , so that they gain the value of unique operating system characteristics , yet still deliver portable applications — for example , a common programming interface set enables a programmer to write a single application that supports the Macintosh , OSF/Motif , Presentation Manager , Windows , or future graphical user interfaces . |
| 17 | Double and triple installations can be arranged so that they use a constant flow of water , which is introduced into the rinse sink , overflowing by weirs wash sinks , to discharge continuously via an overflow pipe fixed in the wash sink . |
| 18 | Will the centre require knowledge of the needs of the nurses , so that they use the visit to their best advantage ? |
| 19 | Simply expressed , and taking these two points together , pluralists are charged with asking the wrong question ( who participates instead of who benefits ) about just the public aspect of policy-making so that they ignore the " private " aspect of power and policy-making altogether . |
| 20 | It was also during the winter months that vines were taken down from their wires and their ends tied ( often to the water pipes ) so that they formed a large bow shape . |
| 21 | Yet in the first half of the century the number of unmarried women increased substantially , so that they formed a significant minority group Spinsters maintained an anomalous social position and were often seen as a threat to a society that assumed all women would marry and be subject to the control of their husbands [ Hill , 229–30 ] . |
| 22 | Additionally , they could be mixed with their neighbouring emotions so that they formed the secondary emotions of : submission , awe , disappointment , remorse , contempt , aggression , optimism , and love . |
| 23 | Or they were until the potato failed ; turned black and rotten and stinking with corruption , so that they killed the pigs and the people got fever . |
| 24 | While this was useful and did hold the attention of members interested in the specific subjects being examined , the subcommittees moved from one area of expenditure to another each session so that they developed no expertise and could not follow up previous work . |
| 25 | For example Roe ( 1952 ) , Eiduson ( 1962 ) and McClelland ( 1962 ) suggested that male scientists often experienced a lonely childhood , perhaps suffering social isolation through illness or family circumstances , so that they developed a strong interest in their surrounding material world and a below average interest in other people and relationships . |
| 26 | They wore clothes that he thought beautiful , when he could see for envy : jackets with Napoleonic pockets , trousers cut so that they reached the ground at the back , pink shirts , print ties . |
| 27 | The needle and sample are chosen so that they form a thermocouple : a device that produces a voltage if the point at which the two materials meet is hotter than its surroundings . |
| 28 | The crucial process , which the British Technology Group is patenting , aligns the polymers so that they form a coherent layer . |
| 29 | To do this , fix battens to the wall , levelling then with slivers of wood , so that they form a truly flat surface ( check with a spirit level in all directions ) . |
| 30 | Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back . |