Example sentences of "of they [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 2 | By this stage , many of them reflected the growing importance of the classical movement , depicting their subjects in classical settings , surrounded by symbolic fruits , flowers , and urns . |
| 3 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 4 | I was n't sure how many of them knew the actual meaning of the word . |
| 5 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 6 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 7 | Someone had told me that no less than twenty people had left the Church after my speech , many of them to join the Raelian Society , a group that exists to set up embassies on earth for alien intelligences wishing to make contact with earthlings . |
| 8 | And of those who firmly intended to vote Conservative more than half of them said the major reason for giving the Tories support was that ‘ they like the local candidate ’ . |
| 9 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 10 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 11 | Anyone opening a computer magazine will find themselves confronted with a bewildering array of advertisements , all of them promising the greatest deals known to mankind . |
| 12 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 13 | One of them extends the Fourth Directive to both partnerships ( whether limited or unlimited ) and unlimited companies , in either case where the partners or shareholders themselves have limited liability . |
| 14 | The first of them resembled the still-existing cyanobacteria ( formerly known — wrongly — as ‘ blue green algae ’ ) . |
| 15 | Merlins will also hunt together , three or four of them chasing the same group of skylarks . |
| 16 | And so it went on , neither of them hearing the real concern of the other . |
| 17 | Where the firm is taking over another practice , accepting its outstanding liabilities and receiving payments for work in progress at the date of the takeover , these matters should be spelled out , particularly where the partners of the acquired practice or some of them join the new firm . |
| 18 | They had reached the end of the ferry jetties and ahead of them lay the tightly-knit bulk of the town , its few colours beige , dun , ochre , brown and white — flattened by the sunlight . |
| 19 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 20 | He passed beside them all , seeing no one , his eyes fixed on the sea and the skiff , and the two great ships and the galleys beyond , all of them flying the Lusignan flag . |
| 21 | The debate on these issues continued for several centuries and the proposed solutions were very varied , but all of them had the ultimate implication that only the civilized Christian Europeans deserved to be rated as true men in a fully human sense ; all other " men " being variously rated as sub-human animals , monsters , degenerate men , damned souls , or the product of a separate creation . |
| 22 | They did not pray two rak'ahs before making love , or perform wudu after intercourse ( perhaps because neither of them had the faintest idea what wudu might be ) , and they were woefully deficient in the sacrifice and dowry departments . |
| 23 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 24 | Two hundred and fifty came from Strathnaver and 104 of them had the same surname : William Mackay . |
| 25 | But that night , all four of them had the same dream … |
| 26 | ‘ Every single one of them had the same opinion as mine , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Merchants were not famous for taking exception to the behaviour of government appointees , but one of them likened the new Moscow Governor , A. A. Zakrevskii , to an Asiatic khan or Chinese viceroy . |
| 28 | Many of them wore the chequered scarves of the Palestinian fedayeen , the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 29 | As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment . |
| 30 | A number of tentative poems took shape , and five of them form the first section of The Prodigal Son . |