Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 3 | All of them seemed to have in common a cold dislike of children and a determination to do as little as possible for their inadequate wages . |
| 4 | It was crewed by amateur sailors and one of them says adjusting to ordinary life has been difficult . |
| 5 | A few scientists began to think in terms of ‘ Little Bangs ’ ; later , more of them began to wonder about white holes . |
| 6 | It includes aid already promised ; debt relief that will deliver no new cash ; bilaterally-negotiated grants and credits , many of them tied to trade with particular ‘ donors ’ ( one man 's export subsidy is another 's development assistance ) ; and a variety of loan facilities that may not be drawn and which are , in fact , conditional on further reform . |
| 7 | They are socially mobile , many of them having risen from working class backgrounds to new heights in the class structure . |
| 8 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 9 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |
| 10 | They got rid of electronic monitoring equipment , including TV cameras and recorders , by complaining that these interfered with their powers and caused headaches . |
| 11 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 12 | INSET courses are normally conceived for practising teachers who require refresher courses from time to time : when unqualified teachers take part in them , they remain classed as untrained teachers by the end of their course . |
| 13 | I can recall a class of ten-year-olds designing their own Norman village for several drama sessions before they became engaged in non-projected drama activity ( personal play , as Peter Slade calls it ) , i.e. before they started interacting with each other as villagers instead of through their designs . |
| 14 | The more media permeated life from 1945 to 1990 , and the more they became concentrated in international conglomerates , the more important the accountability of media themselves became . |
| 15 | These broad silver coins were first minted under his orders and they became known as Giulii for that reason . |
| 16 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 17 | Estate agents will now have to give consumers more information , with specific requirements to write to clients informing them of services they intend to offer to prospective purchasers , and to explain in writing terms such as ‘ sole agency ’ , ‘ ready , willing and able ’ , and ‘ sole selling rights ’ . |
| 18 | Users should provide their own benchmarks , preferably an emulation of the sort of application they intend to run with comparable workload . |
| 19 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 20 | Good spatial resolution means that they tend to respond to high spatial frequencies . |
| 21 | Consequently they tend to opt for conservative technologies . |
| 22 | Japanese firms prefer long-term reliable and exclusive business relationships and they tend to turn to established channels to develop new business initiatives . |
| 23 | Conversely , they tend to converge in higher-status speech on a much narrower phonetic area , but are less responsive to environmental constraints . |
| 24 | Instead , they tend to focus on formal job descriptions , as these are key to performance appraisals . |
| 25 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 26 | But perhaps the most worrying , if most ephemeral , comment is that researchers are unwilling to take risks to open up new lines of research ; they tend to stick to piecemeal additions to well-established paths . |
| 27 | Even when people do go for walks , they tend to keep to public paths and these are often also severely eroded ( Coleman , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Conceit , because they tend to attribute to human beings a position in the world to which , a position of importance in the world , to which they 're not entitled . |
| 29 | Agencies too easily assume that the competition for the brands and services they advertise comes from other advertisers . |
| 30 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |