Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But give them a solid economic recovery and they 'll forget it ever happened . ’ |
| 2 | Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December . |
| 3 | Completely dry inland regions where they predominate , for example the so-called ‘ oases ’ , support little vegetation . |
| 4 | It is ironic that those two Members were allies in forcing the Madrid conditions on the exchange rate mechanism on the right hon. Lady and they are now at odds over further developments in the Community , but they can still both vote for this meaningless motion . |
| 5 | They interviewed parents , specialist professionals and mainstream day-care workers and they designed a questionnaire which was completed by workers in a large proportion of mainstream council services and voluntary organisations , as well as by some child-minders . |
| 6 | he continued , suddenly grinning at the tall old man as they walked between the levels of stoves and cookers and fires , Scullions ran about the place , carrying brooms and buckets and baskets full of hidden ingredients . |
| 7 | The pair were having a right old giggle as they walked through Heathrow airport , despite a tiring flight from Los Angeles . |
| 8 | The task was a blessed diversion ; he could n't stop her going , he could only concentrate on turning the bloody old things till they loosened . |
| 9 | The men also tended to have different political views as they came from such a huge and diverse country . |
| 10 | By their nature estuarine fish are active swimmers with a high metabolic rate so they eat well , and pollute well too ! |
| 11 | One persuasive argument says that many dinosaurs probably needed a high metabolic rate when they were not fully grown , since they had to grow , as we have seen , at a great pace . |
| 12 | Whereas Mr Sisulu 's release will be ‘ unconditional ’ , according to President FW de Klerk , his wife and son are prohibited from participating in any kind of public political activity and they are allowed to move — unless special exemption is granted — only within the boundaries of the Johannesburg area . |
| 13 | They are works of peculiar historical interest since they are the earliest publications to include a special part — what the publisher , Giacomo Vincenti , called a sparditura or partidura — for the accompanying organist . |
| 14 | Members may , of course , continue to use the old designatory letters if they wish , but most have adopted the new style . |
| 15 | Such apparent double standards need rigorous scientific data if they are to be justified . |
| 16 | Informed in majestic neo-colonial language and with disingenuous grace by the British foreign secretary that they ‘ have a part to play ’ in the settlement of their own affairs , is a sense of humiliation and a wintry smile from those who remember other foreign secretaries and other assurances so difficult to grasp ? |
| 17 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all very well having top foreign players but they also want coaches to help develop their local talent . ’ |
| 20 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Now , bent and rheumaticky and crosser than ever , Ruth and her sister Joan Young found him a figure to be pitied rather than feared , but both agreed that he was an evil-tempered old man and they felt very sorry for his only daughter Molly who kept house for him . |
| 22 | On the one hand there were those introduced by British or British trained educationists because they appeared at the time to represent the ‘ best ’ education ( though naturally criteria for judging quality varied widely ) . |
| 23 | Two years later they bought another one , this time a brown standard poodle so they were company for each other . |
| 24 | We went into the country to an old ranch-style house where they have ‘ traditional Brazilian food ’ and I walked around the ranch ( ‘ fazenda ’ ) for a bit with his family . |
| 25 | They are capital intensive industries because they have a lot of money invested in machinery and equipment but relatively few workers . |
| 26 | It follows claims by the right-wing British National Party that they 've launched a recruitment drive in the area . |
| 27 | Mr 's daughter , I think it 's his daughter , er is working for the British National Corpus and they are looking at the how words are used in ordinary everyday situations . |
| 28 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 29 | It is the view of many of the vets in the district , the R S P C A Inspectorate and other dog handling professionals , that dogs must have adequate natural exercise and they should be given the opportunity to run freely as frequently as possible . |
| 30 | In the event , the failure of large numbers of Official Unionists to join meant that the new party was more congenial to the old Protestant Unionists than they had initially feared . |