Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rejoicing in the splendid Irish Guinness they drank and bemoaned the sad state of beer back in Britain . |
| 2 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 3 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 4 | Arriving in this country they established themselves as farmers and in the early 19th century they farmed at Allington Castle and then travelled through various parts of England as farmers until arriving back in Kent . |
| 5 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 6 | I am more interested in the varying symbolic functions they fulfil . |
| 7 | In the 1987 general election they presented you with a partisan newspaper , as in 1945 : nearly all were rooting for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | In Shetland a number of pairs of the white-tailed sea-eagle used to nest in the high cliffs , but in the late nineteenth century they went into a decline and the last pair nested in 1914 . |
| 9 | In the other two species they do not . |
| 10 | Their direction was poor and in the first 12 overs they conceded 12 wides and no-balls , so it was an unexpected bonus when Donald , with the last delivery in his first spell of four overs , had Haynes caught at backward square-leg . |
| 11 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 12 | Even in the peripheral Hiberno-British province they were already displaying a notable capacity for innovation at an early stage of the local Bronze Age . |
| 13 | In the following three days they had to get through two complete run-throughs , two technical rehearsals , and one dress rehearsal . |
| 14 | ‘ The council provides the site , I take care of their £400,000 investment which in the current economic climate they ca n't find , and the LTA gives me their £200,000 grant to run it . |
| 15 | In the next 10 days they were joined by hundreds of unemployed youths who looted shops , damaged cars and demanded money from passers-by . |
| 16 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |
| 17 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 18 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 19 | A bright future for London 's securities firms would , oddly , be nearer if in the next few months they once again lost oodles of cash . |
| 20 | In the next few weeks they spent a lot of time together . |
| 21 | no it was n't one of the most popular it was one of the most unusual , it was n't in the top ten list they made |
| 22 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 23 | They 're the only sweetpea growers in the country asked to show at Chelsea ; the high standard of their flowers reflected in the 3 gold medals they 've won at past shows . |
| 24 | In the past few days they have detected a slide in that support . |
| 25 | In the past few years they have done such a great job in establishing a platform to build on . ’ |
| 26 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 27 | If we look into the history of Iraq I do n't think anybody can remember in the past twenty years they have contributed anything , neither in the terms of world economy , neither in the world of world peace , or any humanitarian |
| 28 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 29 | Yet we have seen that due to the dispersion of shareholding in the large public company they have no incentive to inform themselves of the actions of their managers or to seek a remedy against them . |
| 30 | They 're also the charity trustees , and I think it would be true to say that in the very final analysis they are the people who are ultimately responsible . |