Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 2 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 3 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 4 | Other leading figures of the party made it clear that they share his sentiments . |
| 5 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 6 | They could feel angry , embarrassed and even guilty because of the comments of over-anxious parents who keep hinting about their longing for grandchildren , or make it clear that they think there should be no more . |
| 7 | But in fact they were so ill prepared that they lost their naval base of Minorca and seemed unable to organize any effective counter-measures . |
| 8 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 9 | The colonel explained that the reason for the exclusion zone would become clear once they saw what had been found in the excavation . |
| 10 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 11 | it 's quite interesting that they do it |
| 12 | Those remaining faced disease and starvation and the prospect of continuing civil war because the Russians left Afghanistan more unstable than they found it . |
| 13 | They are patronising and they insult us by not understanding — and ignoring — the real requirements of our time . |
| 14 | Wagstaff argues that the hypnotist , like a counsellor , helps motivate people to try to remember by reassuring them that they will not be made to feel upset , guilty , or embarrassed if they describe what they have seen . |
| 15 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 16 | Okay as prices are cheaper , but you do have things like Coca Cola getting to those kind of things and everything else which you know where they might not to opera and it 's because it 's more popular and they know what they 're doing . |
| 17 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 18 | Perhaps the gas cooker 's broken and they need it mending . |
| 19 | Chest painful and they hold it when coughing |
| 20 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 21 | His parents — his father was a clerk at the docks and his mother a schoolmistress — were never rich but they were very literate and they encouraged their son to read , observe and learn . |
| 22 | Well , they 're different because they have them they 're really controlled by a man in a signal box so they 're |
| 23 | Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop . |
| 24 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 25 | I was up till three o'clock in the morning , very often , getting these prepared because they wanted them as quickly as possible , you know and er er it was the same when I , I do n't know when |
| 26 | Some garden herbs are variants of a species and are quite acceptable because they retain their herbal qualities . |
| 27 | What does it benefit the British people of Northern Ireland ( for the Ulster-born members of the IRA are British whether they like it or not ) randomly to murder British children in Warrington ? |
| 28 | But it is not yet clear whether they base their judgements on their own features , or whether they have become habituated to the characteristics of their full-sister group . |
| 29 | He asked for and received the resignations of his Cabinet ; it was not clear whether they included his own . |
| 30 | Er now it claims , of course that this is a more efficient purchasing mechanism on behalf of the patients and the community of this area the problem is , of course , it depends what you mean by efficiency and the truth is , that we may get increased our purchasing in terms of frugal as they put it delicately our patients ! |