Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] they [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many of these have not yet been registered as charities and we will be asking local authorities to check deeds , take legal advice and , if appropriate , register these pieces of land with the Charity Commission to give them some long-term protection . ’ |
| 2 | In the long term , alternative political and policy positions can be weakened — there will be no government framework to give them any institutional voice or credence . |
| 3 | On Nov. 29 Nguyen Dan Que , the sole Vietnamese member of the human rights organization Amnesty International , was sentenced to 20 years in prison , and Nguyen Van Thuan was sentenced to 10 years , when a Ho Chi Minh City court found them both guilty of distributing anti-government leaflets and of establishing an organization " aimed at overthrowing the revolutionary administration " . |
| 4 | The mystery of the missing Master Sergeant kept them all embarrassed for the best part of a year . |
| 5 | Their class instinct tells them that lasting full employment is unsound from their point of view and that unemployment is an integral part of the normal capitalist system . |