Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | It will be the first time in 15 years that an England tour party has not included one of the celebrated trio , who between them have appeared in 298 Test matches . |
| 3 | ‘ About half of them fail to comply with European standards . ’ |
| 4 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know ’ , the Dowager Countess leaned close to Lucille , ‘ why some of them bother to dress at all ! |
| 6 | Every year the Irish national broadcasting service , RTE , buys in a series of Radharc programmes and their high quality has ensured that a number of them have appeared on other national TV networks . |
| 7 | Whatever else , it is clear that a modernist representation would not accurately capture the organizational patterns of contemporary Japanese organization , which have served in the 1980s as if they were a very beacon of postmodernity , given the role that various representations of them have played in recent debates . |
| 8 | The team is weighing young children every month , and about 15 per cent of them have to go to intensive feeding , with high-energy milk to combat the symptoms of kwashiorkor . |
| 9 | ‘ Could any of them have come into this kitchen ? ’ asked Rose . |
| 10 | The great majority of the children were recommended to the school because they presented severe management difficulties to teachers in mainstream schools and many of them experience a multiplicity of adversities in their personal lives A majority of children have intractable learning difficulties , and few of them have responded to conventional interventions by members of child guidance clinic teams or remedial services before admission . |
| 11 | Some 30pc of them have switched to Labour and around 8pc to the Tories . |