Example sentences of "they as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So women have to challenge owner-occupation and , in particular , council-house sales and cuts in public expenditure in housing , since it is they as housewives , mothers and single parents who inevitably bear the brunt of reduced decent public housing , and the increased push towards owner-occupation . |
| 2 | This became clear when , in an attempt to investigate further the nature of the personal pronoun constraint on the non-standard concord rule , all occurrences of they as subject in the speech of 12 speakers were collected ( N=310 ) , from which only one example was discovered of a singular verb : |
| 3 | Cleveland trading standards officer Eric Robinson who collated a file of complaints against SureStyle , said they wanted the Office of Fair Trading to take action against the directors of SureStyle to ensure they as individuals did not pursue these sales tactics in the future . |
| 4 | In other words , they as pupils are not living fully in accordance with the official school rhetoric . |
| 5 | In London English , for example , singular forms of be ( certainly past tense forms ) seem to co-occur freely with we and they as subjects : |
| 6 | COMMUTERS from Essex to London have been urged to keep their cool as they as face up to today 's nightmare journey to work caused by the national one-day rail strike . |
| 7 | To answer this question , we must first assess the significance of homage and fealty in the later thirteenth century : how important were they as expressions of subordination of one ruler to another ? |
| 8 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |