Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] they in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 2 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 3 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 4 | Other sources of unease were the unfulfilled aspirations of the minority Shiite community , mostly concentrated in the region south of Baghdad , and the occcasional stirrings of the Communist Party which had gained strength during the Qasem period and become solidly represented in the army until efforts to purge them in the 1970s . |
| 5 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |