Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the legislation , manufacturers can claim a credit of 25 per cent of the market value for each computer they give away to schools . |
| 2 | But from June 1 they will pay £5 and an additional 10p for each trip they make . |
| 3 | At the same time , however , increased taxes on income mean that people derive less income for each hour they work and they may therefore decide to prefer leisure to work , i.e. work less — the substitution effect . |
| 4 | It costs more than a normal prescription , two or three times as much , one charge for each hormone they contain , yet means the difference between health or serious illness and peace of mind for you and your partner . |
| 5 | Medicare — the American programme for the old — pays hospitals for each patient they treat . |
| 6 | The latest figures show that the Lords cost tax payers £4 million in the year from April 1990 to 1991 , or almost £30,000 for each day they sat . |
| 7 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 8 | Institutions pay either PCAS or UCCA for each student they recruit through their handbooks , which have just gone to press . |
| 9 | For each accomplishment they rewarded her : they put the jack-plug on the end of her forefinger into a socket on a box they wheeled to her bedside and when her eyes closed , the reward was a vision of her scintillating meanings . |
| 10 | The TEC pays the society a fixed amount per trainee for each week they work , and participating employees contribute around £5 per trainee per day to the society towards administrative costs . |
| 11 | During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company . |
| 12 | Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas |
| 13 | For that sum they could parade up and down the grounds at any time of day or sit on the grassy banks at will . ’ |
| 14 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 15 | For that violation they can and should be made to pay . ’ |
| 16 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 17 | No doubt they mean well where the arts are concerned , he wrote , but for that reason they are the biggest menace . |
| 18 | No doubt they think they have the interests of the artist at heart , he wrote , but for that reason they must be avoided like the plague . |
| 19 | For that reason they held a conference last month with delegates from the local authorities , and building and insurance worlds . |
| 20 | For that reason they are willing to value bank shares in America at about twice their book value . |
| 21 | For that reason they are given in detail in Appendix 6 , The Effect of Synonym Storage Techniques on Search Times . |
| 22 | Through that system they learn a lot about agriculture and the farm stock as well as technology skills and when they make a farm visit are well prepared for what they are going to see . |
| 23 | Through that viewer they could all peer into the warp as if through one-way mirror-glass . |
| 24 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 25 | ‘ I presume you 've read about this body they found in Clerkenwell ? ’ he said . |
| 26 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 27 | Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are . |
| 28 | Then for another moment they looked at each other . |
| 29 | Well for English literature they set you so many books to study , that was one of them . |
| 30 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |