Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I accept , of course , that judges must be vigilant concerning the liberty of the subject ; but , if Parliament gives them discretionary powers , as section 13 of the Act of 1960 seems to do , it is not competent for them to refuse to exercise those powers . |
| 2 | On Oct. 25 France announced the suspension of aid , and the last French troops were withdrawn on Oct. 30 in spite of calls from the opposition for them to remain to prevent more killing . |
| 3 | The complexities of these situations are shown by the case of an applicant and his family who left what was described as an ‘ overcrowded tin or galvanised structure with no basic amenities ’ in Bangladesh and who were treated as intentionally homeless by one London borough ( who considered that it was reasonable for them to continue to occupy that accommodation ) but not intentionally homeless by a second London borough who referred the applicant back to the first . |
| 4 | In this case , it is not unusual for them to decide to get another dog to keep their first dog company , and this is where the problems can arise — especially if the second dog is younger , or of a more submissive character . |
| 5 | as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 7 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 8 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 9 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 11 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 12 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 13 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 14 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 15 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 16 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 17 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 18 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 19 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 20 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 21 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 22 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |
| 23 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 24 | Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently . |
| 25 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 26 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |
| 27 | Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ? |
| 28 | to find out the needs of parents of children under five and work with them to help facilitate those needs , … to help parents help their children acquire useful skills and act as a bridge between home and school , … and to increase a shared community spirit and foster an attitude of sharing and support between parents and other parents in the local neighbourhood , alongside the paid professionals and voluntary agencies . |
| 29 | Always work a sample for tension with these lace patterns , fabrics with holes in them tend to need fewer stitches because the work becomes more elastic . |
| 30 | In literature , though there are still cases of artisanal and distributive post-artisanal relations , productive post-artisanal relations have long been dominant , and important internal changes within them have taken much publishing into a later market phase . |