Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] the [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 | They grumble about the Ossis ' exaggerated expectations and leisurely working habits . |
| 5 | They correspond to the investor 's balance of expectations about the movement of the share price during the period up to the expiry date . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , there are wrong answers and these should be pointed out when they appear in the trainees ' work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They interfere with the horse 's well-being , his athletic training programme and his earning capacity , as well as further value . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They begin in the person 's dominant hand . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 15 | The bare hills behind Agadir in the west are built of blue limestones so hard that they ring under the fossil-hunter 's hammer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Treasury had accepted the idea that international facilities are a cost-effective way to support large-scale research , but is has been reluctant to provide financial incentives to attract such facilities to Britain , following the example of France and Switzerland , because of doubts that they contribute to the country 's economic wealth . |
| 23 | They contribute to the museum 's subdued , meditative air . |
| 24 | In sum , compared with homes , schools provide a significantly reduced opportunity for children to learn through talk with an adult , and in those conversations that do occur , children find themselves forced into the respondent role , their contributions for the most part only being valued if they contribute to the teacher 's predetermined line of thought . |
| 25 | However , Pavlov , the famous behaviour scientist , listed four main groups of temperament types , which are useful as they relate to the animal 's response to learning and difficult circumstances . |
| 26 | One thing that works at this time forget today and yesterday and all the week it 's the number of children that come into this playhouse now we have us we have a thing called work experience where they come from the school 's and the poor little bugger 's have got ta work with me . . |
| 27 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 28 | Together , accompanied by the bridesmaids , they return to the bridegroom 's house for the wedding and the celebrations that follow . |
| 29 | Ironically , the longer radionuclides remain in the stratosphere , the weaker will be the radioactivity when they return to the earth 's surface . |
| 30 | They study for the CIMA 's highly respected qualification by distance learning in the evenings , topped up with full time revision courses . |