Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America recalcitrant administrators who implement the regulation of industry with excessive enthusiasm are noticed , and quickly purchased for private sector employment if they are exceptionally meritorious . |
| 2 | Those drawn in sterling are the most easily negotiated in the London market although there is a ready market for foreign currency bills providing they are accepted payable in London . |
| 3 | The boys are furious when the police break their own rules by arresting them for public order offences while they are fighting on their home ground . |
| 4 | Older people are more expensive for the state to care for — not only are they eligible for state pensions , which account for 13 per cent of public expenditure in Britain and 22 per cent of the federal budget in the United States , they are also the most costly group for public health services since they are likely to require expensive operations and long stays in hospital . |
| 5 | Some of the members of the Darlington branch help to look after potential guide dogs when they are puppies . |
| 6 | But the Jockey Club 's director of public affairs , David Pipe , said : ‘ The jockeys fail to realise that in this day and age , public opinion is fairly powerful and they are in danger of becoming the subject of private cruelty prosecutions if they are deemed to have broken our rules . |
| 7 | At the other extreme , referred to as ‘ top-down ’ planning , the planning department participates in , and influences the development of , strategies and plans of each business unit as they are being prepared . |
| 8 | The surrender followed that of other Medellín drug cartel leaders [ see pp. 37957 ; 38001 ] who had accepted a government offer of immunity from extradition to the United States on drug and murder charges , and who faced the prospect of lighter prison sentences if they " confessed " to their crimes [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ] . |
| 9 | Bicester rugby club drive towards another Twickenham appearance when they travel to Ongar tomorrow in the quarter finals of the Provincial Cup . |
| 10 | Indeed , studies of who pays what and who benefits from the overall redistribution of income involved in the social services have revealed remarkably little difference between the percentages of income left to family units of different income levels after they have paid taxes and received benefits in cash and kind . |
| 11 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts . |
| 12 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts |
| 13 | They could engage in foreign trade , and retain 50 per cent of export earnings in foreign currency , but would require Ministry of Foreign Trade approval if they sought foreign capital investment . |
| 14 | In the more restricted circumstances in Britain , where such households are smaller and contacts between women in different households in some respects more difficult , women lose something of this support network although they may gain a greater degree of independence in their interactions with men . |
| 15 | ‘ Our area manager said there had been more reaction to the closing of this post office than they had ever known , ’ Mr. Hover told the Herald . |
| 16 | Yeah , we 've actually er , way we 've designed is that erm , it 's actually a sort of , it 's inserted in the ham handbook itself as actually a , sort of separate removal section so they can |
| 17 | Many projects in Zimbabwe , Zambia , Indonesia and other places are now embracing the local people in the development of wildlife-oriented management programmes where they will , once again , be party to the decision-making and benefit from the activity . |
| 18 | In the 1370s , when the real struggle was over , and the southern Scottish nobility were cheerfully driving the English out of such border territory as they still held , the failure to conquer the Scots produced one of the great literary epics , The Brus by John Barbour . |
| 19 | Deliberate programmes of staff development in individual schools and community language units clearly can not solve all of the problems mentioned by the participants in the NCMTT Workshop : good will and voluntary effort will never be enough to eradicate popular conceptions of second class status as they affect community languages . |
| 20 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 21 | From that date people allowing their dogs to stray will have to pay a new £25 fee on top of existing boarding fee if they want to retrieve them . |
| 22 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 23 | No words , just the blissful caress of cool cotton sheets as they slid into bed , Jay 's body glowing with desire . |
| 24 | So far in this chapter we have been concerned with the determinants and consequences of collective bargaining structures as they appertain on an inter-country basis at national level . |
| 25 | Predator species have a long evolutionary history , and it is inferred that they have been as important in the past as accumulators of small mammal bone as they are today . |
| 26 | Futile pastime : memorising the Latin names of 150 fish species when they 've never even owned a goldfish . |
| 27 | ‘ A number of students enrol first on the English for Speakers of Other Languages courses because they want to improve their language skills , ’ said Tahira . |
| 28 | Laurent-Perrier certainly made a splendid effort towards Wild Game Conservation when they started their £5,000 awards in England in 1984 . |
| 29 | For the new classicals , high unemployment rates should not be the object of discretionary government intervention since they are mere epiphenomena . |
| 30 | Sir , I Crawford , director of ministry veterinary field services makes some most inaccurate statements ( Letters , June 28 ) concerning the state veterinary officer Mrs Laura Brough , who was responsible for the veterinary controls for a batch of imported Boer goats while they were in farm isolation in Lancashire in 1987 . |