Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should either just touch the floor — no gap between hem and floor — or be allowed to fall down to it in folds , Thirties style . |
| 2 | They say free fitting , they 'll most likely underlay , cos they 're so clever are n't they ? |
| 3 | Mr Orange warned that the costs involved in addressing environmental pressures on the worldwide oil industry were rising to a point where they would soon equal revenues . |
| 4 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 5 | A new Education Allowance will be introduced , allowing 30,000 long-term unemployed to join full-time vocational courses without losing benefit entitlement , as they would under current rules . |
| 6 | Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Cotswold quote a same-day turn-round for work received by 9.00am using Special Delivery post for the return journey although they will happily Red Star if required . |
| 8 | So long as they are not excluded candidates having " too few " votes must be allowed to collect if they can enough transferred votes to bring them up to the quota . |