Example sentences of "they from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oughtred claimed he had suffered losses in Spain and employed Clerke to help recover them from Spanish ( in fact Portuguese ) vessels in Newfoundland . |
| 2 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 3 | Such entries would have to be flagged in the tree structure to show that they are misspellings to distinguish them from correct words ( as mentioned previously in section 4.4.3 during the discussion of the flagging system and the 12 codes necessary to represent proper nouns , compounds and phrases ) . |
| 4 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 5 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 6 | Interest was such in the traditional , let estate that agent Lane Fox called for best and final offers and received them from close to 10 different parties . |
| 7 | I go across and look at them from close to . |
| 8 | Many women feel that PMS can turn them from normal , balanced folk into devils . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , as Europe 's electronics companies demand that the European Commission protect them from Japanese competition , NEC is thinking of taking a stake in Groupe Bull , France 's loss-making state-owned computer maker . |
| 10 | The absence of any letters between them from mid July until October suggests that they deliberately refrained from regular letter writing for a time . |
| 11 | Do I buy them from existing shareware libraries , or is there somewhere I could obtain a complete set of titles from in one go . |
| 12 | According to the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , as many as 50,000 troops might be assigned to the new force , most of them from existing units , including an Anglo-Dutch amphibious division , a planned multinational North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) division and the recently formed Franco-German corps [ see pp. 38931-32 ] . |
| 13 | Talk of magic in the Western World as a spent force : self-congratulatory accounts of cults that had been infiltrated , and discovered to be groups of pseudo-scientists exchanging arcane theories in a language no two of them agreed upon , or sexual obsessives using the excuse of workings to demand favours they could n't seduce from their partners or , most often , crazies in search of some mythology , however ludicrous , to keep them from complete psychosis . |
| 14 | Last year the town recorded 2,500 vehicle offences , many of them from central car parks . |
| 15 | The lowlands of Northern Ireland were covered by slow-moving ice sheets which had spread out across them from faster-moving glaciers in the mountains . |
| 16 | ‘ I did but I cheated — cooked them from frozen , but tonight I promise to cook you a proper meal , my own personal favourite . |
| 17 | No , you 're supposed to cook them from frozen . |
| 18 | You can cook them from frozen . |
| 19 | The third characteristic envisaged for the polytechnics , namely that they should have an ‘ applied philosophy ’ , means that their courses should have a vocational orientation and be designed with specific career outlets in mind , thus distinguishing them from many university courses which are sometimes described as ‘ pure ’ . |
| 20 | If the scope of reason is confined to refining and systematising imperatives and deducing them from each other , how can it ever change their relation to the spontaneous ? |
| 21 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
| 22 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 23 | Mere spatial separation does not divide them from each other . |
| 24 | Any citizen aged between 40 and 65 would be eligible to run for the presidency , provided he or she was proposed by at least 5,000 people , at least 200 of them from each province . |
| 25 | Goering and Ribbentrop keep bodyguards to protect them from each other . |
| 26 | Lord Crowther-Hunt , who has had experience both as a policy adviser and a minister , records in his book , The Civil Servants , that the permanent staff tended to isolate advisers by excluding them from official committees and by reducing the information available to them . |
| 27 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 28 | At a time when many middle-class voters would be looking for the party that would best defend them from Labour , this Conservative strength would be of vital importance . |
| 29 | Her scent messages stimulate the workers to groom and feed her , and prevent them from developing ovaries . |
| 30 | As a result the public interest is increasingly defined by expert professional administrators , and administrative decisions designed to promote the public interest are articulated in a language that screens them from effective parliamentary criticisms and public debate . |