Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , they remain outside the treaty 's remit and safeguards , weak though they may be . |
| 2 | From these , it is clear that a buyer can be owner of the goods even though he has not paid for them and even though they remain in the seller 's possession . |
| 3 | The glory of the audio-visual media is the contribution they bring to the teacher 's communication skills . |
| 4 | A charge of £15 is made for infants under the age of 2 years on departure date , provided they sit on an adult 's lap during the journey . |
| 5 | They grumble about the Ossis ' exaggerated expectations and leisurely working habits . |
| 6 | They correspond to the investor 's balance of expectations about the movement of the share price during the period up to the expiry date . |
| 7 | Club promotion reflects the importance of dance clubs and the contribution they make towards a record 's popularity . |
| 8 | Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school . |
| 9 | However , there are wrong answers and these should be pointed out when they appear in the trainees ' work . |
| 10 | The women have their own staircase to the first-floor bedrooms , where they sleep under the housekeeper 's eye ; male servants have a staircase and rooms at the back , off the brushing room . |
| 11 | They interfere with the horse 's well-being , his athletic training programme and his earning capacity , as well as further value . |
| 12 | In the first public comment by a Cabinet minister on Tory tactics in a hung Parliament , he said it ‘ depends what they put in the Queen 's Speech ’ . |
| 13 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 14 | The value of the heavy minerals is in the information they give on a sediment 's provenance , although their dissolution during diagenesis may result in modification to the original assemblage ( Morton , 1985b ) . |
| 15 | They begin in the person 's dominant hand . |
| 16 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 17 | Yes , the frustrated mother ca n't be generous and so forth with her child , and on the whole I think the emphasis that people used to put on mothers staying at home was very misguided , because a mother who 's having to sacrifice all her outside interests for the sake of her child is just a frustrated mother , and it 's not good for the also the problem is that you then have fairly energetic women devoting all they have to children , then they over-invest in the child 's own achievements , so in fact you are putting a great psychological burden on the child because it has to grow up fulfilling expectations of an adult , which is not right for a child . |
| 18 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 19 | The millionaire drummer has slapped a no-sex ban on their relationship til they wed in a year 's time . |
| 20 | The bare hills behind Agadir in the west are built of blue limestones so hard that they ring under the fossil-hunter 's hammer . |
| 21 | Mind you , that 's nothing compared to the £5.10 they pay for a McDonald 's Big Mac which sets Britons back just £1.66 . |
| 22 | So John Davies and Simon Green of the University of Leicester have collaborated with the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Britain to look for fast-moving objects in IRAS signals as they arrive from the laboratory 's receiving station in Oxfordshire . |
| 23 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |
| 24 | In more senses than one they belong to no man 's land . |
| 25 | In this aggressive and selfish age , some golfers seem determined to operate as they do on the queen 's highway , following the " Thou shalt not pass " code of behaviour . |
| 26 | There are a couple of blemishes on the maple which look like black drips from where the pickup cavities have been painted , which is a little careless , but luckily these are not too noticeable sitting as they do underneath the player 's right arm during use . |
| 27 | In addition , employees with company mortgages may keep up to £1300 of the proceeds of the sale of their property when they move at the company 's request . |
| 28 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 29 | They result from an observer 's use of his or her senses at a particular place and time . |
| 30 | These offences can not be regarded as trivial because sometimes they result in an employee 's or innocent bystander 's death , serious injury , or permanently impaired health . |