Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As personal traits and gifts , as the fruits of experience or as the outcome of maturity they remain essentially a private matter , not amenable to management training but open to approaches which might be based on good practice in counselling or on well-handled programmes about the development of interpersonal skills . |
| 2 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 3 | They remain merely an intriguing possibility , showing more about the human addiction to order than allowing the Earth to show her own organic nature . |
| 4 | What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders . |
| 5 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 6 | They cite instead a report by representatives of Ramsar , the international wetlands convention , which warns that extensive mining would be sure to cause irreparable damage to the area . |
| 7 | Or if liver and limb bud cells are mixed they too sort out into large clumps ; but they make neither a proper liver nor limbs . |
| 8 | Is the first offer that they make simply an opening shot ? |
| 9 | And er , I know they want over a hundred pound just for a caravan for a week do n't they ? |
| 10 | The detailed changes to the boundary layer structure during this development are complicated , although they occupy only a small fraction of the total distance over which transition occurs . |
| 11 | According to the 1986 English House Condition Survey , households 75+ only make up 10% of all households , but they occupy almost a third of dwellings lacking basic amenities and 16% of unfit dwellings . |
| 12 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 13 | Because FM waves travel only 60 or so miles from a transmitter , they provide essentially a local pool of sound . |
| 14 | At the same time , they provide only a limited basis for understanding the determinants of the long-run rate of growth , particularly technical progress and entrepreneurial activity . |
| 15 | They provide quite a full ‘ snapshot ’ of popular conceptions of class , and of the class/politics relationship , some of the elements of which remain relevant today . |
| 16 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 17 | They hold almost a third of junk bonds outstanding . |
| 18 | They feel a bit beleaguered here , and they cause quite a sensation when they walk about in the streets with their long hair ( the men , I mean ! ) . |
| 19 | They cost just a pound a copy to produce , so why do we pay so much for them in the shops ? |
| 20 | Brazil will fill Wembley next March and if they show just a fraction more ambition near goal it will be a night to remember . |
| 21 | In addition , they receive just a single rupee for collecting a kilogramme of papers and rags , while their efforts are turned into substantial profits by the recycling industries . |
| 22 | They put forward a number of suggestions . |
| 23 | By 1978 British Rail and the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français ( SNC ) had started planning a single track rail tunnel for through rail services , commonly known as the Mousehole , and they put forward a plan to the governments in 1979 . |
| 24 | They are alleged to send the ball further but I 'm not sure that they put even a yard on a shot . |
| 25 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |
| 26 | ‘ They put together a group of people like Take That ! , who did n't even know each other until they formed — not that I 'm knocking them , because they 've got more front than we have — but it 's not going to work unless it 's real , ’ gripes Tony . |
| 27 | Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent . |
| 28 | They lie there a minute , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 29 | I like Marshalls in the studio if a heavy sound is called for , but I find they vary quite a lot . |
| 30 | Now , sadly , ( if the Press is to be believed ) they seem principally an anti-terrorist force , and whereas in 1944 their aims were sabotage and hitting a recognised enemy as hard as they could , today they are forced to deal largely with the un-uniformed enemy in our midst . |