Example sentences of "[noun sg] of they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today we have over one million business accounts , from sole traders to the largest corporations , with the great majority of them receiving financial help from us in one form or another — from a simple overdraft to extremely complex arrangements . |
| 2 | Many scientists are active in such groups in Northern Ireland and a significant proportion of them bring special expertise to their organisations . |
| 3 | Whilst they were appearing in Up With the Lark at the Adelphi Theatre , they coped admirably with their filming schedule but were furious when Sickert produced a picture of them called High Steppers . |
| 4 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 5 | There is a controversy going on in America at the moment because President Bush has decided to cut his military arsenal which means that many people working would lose their jobs , and because of the recession there is not much chance of them getting other jobs . |
| 6 | Certainly a number of them address current developments in Scottish education which are either affecting classroom teachers already or are likely to do so in the future . |
| 7 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 8 | A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch . |
| 9 | ‘ Those people who criticise what I do , a lot of them have little perception of how ordinary people actually live their lives and what interests them . |
| 10 | And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them . |
| 11 | Right , somebody with congenital dislocation of the hip , the hip will sag down it will cause them great difficulty and they have a waddling gait , and they 'll walk like this and if you look at African women a lot of them have congenital dislocation of the hip when they waddle |
| 12 | The workers will have to be part of the success of the sell-offs , which is why advisers like Mr Brennan are proposing that they be given sizeable stakes in companies for nothing — up to 5 per cent or more — with the possibility of them buying more shares at big discounts . |
| 13 | A couple of them sported bruised faces , and one was limping . |
| 14 | In the context of them doing 8 performances we were happy to pay them £120,000 . |