Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swallows and house martins have dispensed with them altogether to gain a clear view of the insects they catch on the wing . |
| 2 | Not all Thom 's conclusions are fully accepted , but to understand them properly requires a knowledge of mathematics , statistics , surveying , astronomy , and archaeology — not a common combination . |
| 3 | While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate . |
| 4 | Arboreal rodents , primates , and many other mammals take to the trees as an escape route and the majority of them rarely risk a descent to the ground unless it is vitally necessary . |
| 5 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 6 | ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain . |
| 7 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 8 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |
| 9 | However , the departmental system of budgeting contains no mechanism to identify those individual parts , nor any mechanism to bring them together to give a total for orthopaedic surgery . |
| 10 | The large numbers of retired people , the tourists , the workers in the primary industries ( mining , quarrying , fishing and farming ) and the workers in the secondary industries ( manufacturing ) — all of them together need a great many services , or tertiary industries . |
| 11 | ABOVE The method of dating using tree-rings ( dendrochronology ) involves taking samples from timbers of different ages , and linking them together to provide an overall dating sequence . |
| 12 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 13 | er , at the back page about nine inch by six wi you , were cut-outs and you cut it out and stuck them together to make a little paper , well , thick paper model . |
| 14 | One of them admittedly retains a glazed , half-shut look , but the other , propped open behind his monocle , continues to observe the world with bulbous attention . |
| 15 | Competing there were the cream of the country 's young athletic talent , some of them already making a name for themselves at international level . |
| 16 | Shrewsbury by the way are a third division team , they 're about eighth or ninth in the table so er a great chance for them tonight to cause a major upset . |
| 17 | Old Mr. Stavanger and Mr. Andrew both liked a glass in the Masters ' Room , but neither of them ever took a drop too much . |
| 18 | Although the rumours of the Queen 's supposed adulteries were real enough and , given the prevailing double standard in sexual matters , much more shocking than the stories of the King 's mistresses , none the less if either of them ever had a romantic love affair it is likely to have been Henry rather than Eleanor . |
| 19 | The aims which I put up there , I wo n't go through each one , I think are hopefully fairly self explanatory , the , some of those are going well and some of them still need a hard push , a hard push from us and a hard push from the clubs and the teaching establishments . |
| 20 | It is often the way with Mughal ruins : while the more primitive forts which preceded them still have an aura of power as they rise solid and impregnable from the burning plains , the silky refinement expressed in Mughal architecture turns , in decay , to something approaching seediness . |
| 21 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 22 | MCI Communications Corp describes a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is talking with several cable television companies about partnerships , with them possibly buying a stake in MCI as no more than rumour . |
| 23 | I remember them once having a , a cock fight . |
| 24 | One of them once issued an edict against promiscuous kissing on New Year 's Day . |
| 25 | Some of them hardly bat an eyelid , but explain that quails do migrate over the Sinai peninsula , and that they often settle on the ground in large numbers and can be caught very easily . |
| 26 | With increasing age , strength , and experience , most of them probably inherit a vacated range , take one over , or succeed in establishing a new community where younger females are setting up new ranges . |
| 27 | Perhaps you could pass your Medau News on to friends with an encouragement to them also to join a class . |
| 28 | Many of them also offer a mail-order service |
| 29 | A search of the records having a given attribute , to see which of them also has a second , third , … etc. in the required list , will eliminate all the records that are not wanted . |
| 30 | Some European nations still gave much weight to traditional authority , but most of them also showed a growing tendency to seek to legitimize such authority on other grounds . |