Example sentences of "of they [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 11 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 12 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 15 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 18 | Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |
| 21 | 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 ? |