Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With differing or conflicting values they would often be pulling in different directions and pursuing incompatible goals . |
| 2 | They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt . |
| 3 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 4 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 5 | Local education authorities will contribute through staffing and clerical costs they may also provide office space and equipment , etc . |
| 6 | In some conditions they might still be live . ’ |
| 7 | The reason is , I think , partly that in this particular society men rule the roost and women have a low status and few rights they can directly exercise . |
| 8 | Since you are so unwilling to communicate with your old friends they can only guess . |
| 9 | In some instances they will even transport each cub , one at a time , for as much as four miles to give them greater protection . |
| 10 | Mr Tudball told a meeting of the exchange 's ship-broking members they could either remain at Lloyd 's of London or move to the old Billingsgate fish market in the meantime . |
| 11 | At high intensities they will even remove broods from cells or sting each other to death . |
| 12 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 13 | And I 've no criticism of Global investments they may well be the best for you . |
| 14 | If boards are in too bad a condition to be revived by any of the preceding methods they can almost certainly be retrieved by paint topped up with several coats of polyurethane . |
| 15 | In the latter case , an exact equivalent to grammar in linguistics is unlikely to be found , since , as noted earlier , objects gain their effect from their comparative lack of abstraction and the various bridging functions they can thereby perform . |
| 16 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 17 | Somewhere in there fire fighters learn to tackle some of the most dangerous situations they 'd ever be likely to come up against . |
| 18 | In previous centuries needs were recognized reluctantly , if at all , when social problems were of such proportions they could no longer be ignored . |
| 19 | In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another . |
| 20 | These arts they must already in considerable measure have mastered . |
| 21 | Whether they believe that we change through investigation of the unconscious mind , through investigation of the relationship that forms between a therapist and client , through group experience or through changing patterns of behaviour will depend to some extent on which one of these experiences they can best identify with themselves . |
| 22 | Any unfortunate associations they 'd just have to cope with . |
| 23 | For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind . |
| 24 | So if we can hurt them or certainly gang together if you like , cos unity is strength , and between the three workforces they 'll certainly slow down production and hopefully force things . |
| 25 | One of these days they 'll just vanish from the face of the earth and never be seen again . |
| 26 | If you chase the game against the likes of these teams they 'll just pick you off and slit you open . |
| 27 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 28 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 29 | Except that the mattress had smelt musty , and that as they lay in bed through those long cold mornings they could just see the spire of the Congregational church through the window . |
| 30 | Should the attackers overcome these obstacles they would then be caught in deadly crossfire from archers positioned on the next series of walls and towers protecting the central core . |