Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Departments , including costume and design , have started to operate the system , in which they cost their own services and sell themselves to BBC programmes . |
2 | Traditional they may be by instrumentation , but the way in which they apply their collective noises is unique . |
3 | In several primary schools children are working together at ‘ turtle geometry ’ projects in which they set their own goals and spend several days or weeks achieving them . |
4 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
5 | They mostly excel in their industry — the skill with which they irrigate their terraced hillsides with tiny runnels of water shows a considerable advancement in agriculture . |
6 | A chriostat is , is what low temperature physicists call the little bit of experimental apparatus in which they get their low temperatures . |
7 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
8 | Even more important , perhaps , in its effect upon class action is the attachment which individuals have always had to some tribal , ethnic , linguistic or national community , with which they identify their own interests , by contrast and often in conflict with other such communities . |
9 | On the shores of the lake , or on one of the little islets that may form in the middle of it , they build their lodge , a great dome of sticks , poles , branches , reeds and mud within which they have their living chamber . |
10 | Recognising that this stands in contradiction to the statements contained in the terms and conditions of engagement which they offer their casual workers , some organisations seek to make it clear that they are no more than " collecting agents for the revenue " . |
11 | They 've got sort of mind you they have their own training sort of regime as well , which in some ways is , means it 's quite good experience because it is structured in , in a , in a way to give you some training , whereas of course if you just go in to do a job then erm how much sort of training you get varies a bit . |
12 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
13 | so I says it 's going , now as far as the , er , what they call it that fella that come to did that job |
14 | what they call it desperate dye faces |
15 | He said , ‘ Well , I suppose this is what they call our ultimate destination . |
16 | But the main problem with defectors is that they quickly run out of crown jewels and then inevitably resort to inventing what they think their new-found paymasters want to hear in order to extend their usefulness and avoid being discarded to end their days washing dishes in a Hungarian restaurant in downtown Washington . |