Example sentences of "a [noun sg] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a composite they have some cleaning ability . |
| 2 | As a result they show subtle differences , some being positioned on the upper fin , some on the rear of the main trunk and some on the tail-stem . |
| 3 | As a result they suffered many casualties . |
| 4 | As a result they pay sky-high premiums . |
| 5 | As a result they have considerable doubts about the validity of the case for the control of mergers . |
| 6 | Tizard 's findings led her to conclude that the adopted children were the most fortunate — as a group they had fewer problems than the restored children . |
| 7 | As a consequence they pose real problems to the policy maker , practitioner and manager , who are expected to respond to a problem the magnitude and significance of which are open to wide and sometimes conflicting interpretations . |
| 8 | For a moment they faced each other , frozen in hostility . |
| 9 | For a moment they caught each other 's eye . |
| 10 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 11 | For a week they accepted generous hospitality and it is said that on the evening before the massacre their leader played cards with McIan and his family . |
| 12 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 13 | In a sense they had little alternative on account of Israel 's refusal to accept the return of the refugees and the refugees ' own outright refusal of resettlement . |
| 14 | When Mad Carew was a lad/lass they called that oxymoron in English lessons . |
| 15 | As a means of controlling a project they have two weaknesses . |
| 16 | As a means of controlling a project they have two weaknesses . |
| 17 | If a family is not using planning , in a year they have one child and in ten years , how many ? |
| 18 | Mac and Barbara Humble live above the shop in a house they waited 16 years to buy . |
| 19 | One extract from the guide reads : ‘ Before children have the vaguest ideas about who or what is a homosexual they learn that homosexuality is something frightening , horrid and nasty . |
| 20 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |