Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [v-ing] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One feature of the mushroom polyps which should be born in mind when positioning them in the aquarium is the strength of the sting that their short tentacles produce . |
| 2 | The only principle abandoned in 1857 was the propriety of making legal remedies for marriage difficulties available for the aristocracy while withholding them from the growing upper middle class . |
| 3 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 4 | It has got to the stage where it would be cheaper for stockholding booksellers themselves to buy the books from these cheaper sources — they 'd get a better margin than ordering them from the publisher . |
| 5 | Everyone is agreed that looking after patients in the community is a more expensive option than keeping them inside a hospital , where all the facilities are available under one roof . |
| 6 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |