Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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1 | However , unless you are a professional personnel officer , one of the proofs of your success will be in the fact that you do not have to exercise your interviewing skill too often , because you consistently choose the right people for the right jobs and they are therefore happy to stay . |
2 | Under starters orders for the second time and they 're off . |
3 | They are there for the sole reason that they bring farmers huge subsidies . |
4 | Small children scrambled for the scattered coins before they washed down the drains . |
5 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
6 | Well it certainly should be because it 's for the families , for the young children and they , they ca n't understand what it , all of it is about so it should be kept as simple and as short as possible . |
7 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
8 | Parents will need to see gains in their children 's learning in return for the extra efforts that they are expected to make . |
9 | It has been an exhausting three days for the Labour Whips as they trawled the corridors of the Palace to try to find people who they could wheel in to speak in this debate . |
10 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
11 | Bangor have proved they have what it takes to challenge for the major honours but they have never won the league or the cup . |
12 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
13 | These are caves you should see , for the good reason that they were lived in . |
14 | The inhabitants of Mauléon remained pro-English rather longer than most , for the good reason that they found that to be governed from England was the nearest one could then come to being autonomous . |
15 | In London the supermarkets already dominate the milk supply business , for the good reason that they are open late at night which is when the singles do their shopping and can sell it much more cheaply , 35p against 40p . |
16 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
17 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
18 | For the first time since they began the surveys , Dun and Bradstreet report a negative outlook for the profits of retailers , which indicates a gloomy outlook for consumer spending in the run-up to Christmas . |
19 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
20 | A nine-year-old , he is the ideal age and will be ridden by Hywel Davies for the first time since they won the 1989 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup . |
21 | After clinching the Bob Lord Trophy against Runcorn in midweek , Wycombe travel to Altrincham today hoping to relieve Colchester of the leadership for the first time since they went top five months ago . |
22 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
23 | THE BIRTHDAY PARTY , the highly influential Australian band of the late '70s/early '80s , reunited for the first time since they split in 1983 at an NME -sponsored gig last week . |
24 | Jacko looked him in the eyes for the first time since they 'd met . |
25 | For the first time since they 'd come into the house , Roman turned his dark gaze directly on to her . |
26 | For the first time since they had left the house , he seemed rather less relaxed . |
27 | KENNY MORRIS starred in his own version of ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ in front of the cameras yesterday as Holywood clinched the Harp Senior League Championship for the first time since they changed their name from Belfast YMCA in 1987 . |
28 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
29 | And the Tynesiders could be among the medals for the first time since they won the event in 1987 and 1988 . |
30 | After Arsenal had demolished Coventry City 3-0 at Highbury to take top place for the first time since they won the Championship in May 1991 , Graham said : ‘ It is no good looking back . |