Example sentences of "they form a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 2 | However , to Claudia , Dana was part of her — together they formed a whole that few sisters could hope to achieve . |
| 3 | As their numbers grew they formed a wedge between the barricades and the main body of the procession , which was forced to stop short some way away from the barricades . |
| 4 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 5 | They inter-linked into a plasma of enormous strength , and to me as a young man they formed a Mafia that made the Sicilian one look like choirboys . |
| 6 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 7 | On the first of January nineteen hundred and one they formed a federation and most adult aborigines were |
| 8 | With Noakes 's help , they formed a pillow from two sheets , and fixed a third behind the slab to make a screen . |
| 9 | They formed a canopy that robbed the area of light . |
| 10 | They formed a strand in the cultural tradition which drew the different peoples together in the formation of the Yugoslav Movement of the early nineteenth century . |
| 11 | When they had last been extensively used , in 1894 and 1895 , able-bodied paupers in Bermondsey terrified the workhouse staff and played leapfrog in the stoneyard ; in Poplar they formed a union and went on strike for a higher rate of relief . |
| 12 | This charting of the circulating relations between aesthetic and other forms of production works best in those historical periods , such as the Renaissance , where there was no modern concept of Literature , thus allowing literary texts to be mapped against the political and other discourses of which they formed a part . |
| 13 | Read now , one by one , they formed a chapelet , a commentary on that summer . |
| 14 | The chicks learned to see camouflaged grains ; they formed a search image for them . |
| 15 | The family name was Fuller , and John Fuller — who knew nothing of the brewery trade — decided to bring in a Mr. Turner and a Mr. Smith and they formed a partnership which continues still as the well known firm of Fuller , Smith and Turner . |
| 16 | They formed a partnership solely to enter the competition , and did no other work together . |
| 17 | In 1873 they formed a partnership , born of mutual respect and trust , to manufacture soda ash near Northwich in Cheshire . |
| 18 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 19 | They formed a sequence , dated from 1903 to 1927 , detailing the changing fashions of that period — my dear , we never showed our legs like that . |
| 20 | Spindly creatures barely 18ins tall , fertilised with optimism , they formed a picket line 150ft long up the garden 's steep slope to a field of grazing horses . |
| 21 | They formed a queue outside the cinema , pockets of greasy overcoats and grubby kaftans bulging with flagons . |
| 22 | They formed a terrace of four and the front doors opened onto a passage whereas most houses had the door opening directly into a room . |
| 23 | They formed a circle round him and he broke out of it into a gallop , tearing round and round the square in a high-spirited frenzy . |
| 24 | Some say they formed a complex of sites for religious rituals . |
| 25 | Again Millie said , ‘ Good morning , ma'am , , then turned and followed Ben to the cart , from which there was now a great scattering away of children , before once more they formed a group as if into a combined force . |
| 26 | The original band of brothers in the primal horde were excluded from sexual intercourse with any women by their father , and they formed a group , based on homosexual feelings , to perform the act that no one of them could do as a sole individual , namely , to kill their father . |
| 27 | They formed a group so that they could put forward a collective case with Ewan Veitch doing most of the research , Yuel McMurray , assisting . |
| 28 | They formed a group so that they could put forward a collective case with Ewan Veitch doing most of the research , Yuel McMurray , assisting . |
| 29 | But to the Mesolithic hunter-nomads they formed a forest kingdom , a race of forest creatures , saviours , oracles , and tormentors all at the same time ; they arose in the mythogenic unconscious both to explain nature 's hostility to the people 's actions , and to express the hope of survival against the unknown . |
| 30 | Desperate and afraid , they formed a suicide pact . |