Example sentences of "of they [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 2 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 3 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 5 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 6 | More thoughtful than either of them had seemed last night . |
| 7 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 8 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 9 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 10 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 11 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 12 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 13 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 14 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 15 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 16 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 17 | Many of them have done excellent work in the past . |
| 18 | Almost half of them have experience of the joys of a threesome , while more of them have seen live sex shows than men in other categories . |
| 19 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |
| 20 | Both of them have made important progress under the British Presidency which ends on December 31 . |
| 21 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 22 | Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ? |
| 23 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |