Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | With differing or conflicting values they would often be pulling in different directions and pursuing incompatible goals . |
| 2 | Without stores or adequate sails they suffered great hardships , but eventually arrived in south-west Newfoundland , where Clerke knew the French Basques had fishing stations . |
| 3 | Teamed with plain or multi-print shirts they look the part whether you are going for a meal , to the pub or to work . |
| 4 | Teamed with plain or multi-print shirts they look the part whether you are going for a meal , to the pub or to work . |
| 5 | Because of their contractual nature , however , unless the participating parties specify their application in the ‘ master ’ or individual agreements they have no effect . |
| 6 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
| 7 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |
| 8 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |
| 9 | He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 10 | In about two or three weeks they 're gon na be digging up every inch of pavement and every inch they can get their hands on . |
| 11 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 12 | Unlike affiliated unions or socialist societies they had no collective voice but were regarded as subsidiary units . |
| 13 | Since cultures are unlikely to be maintained for more than 4 or 5 days they can generally be kept free of bacterial contamination by conducting all manipulations in sterile media with flame-pulled glass mouth pipettes under dissecting microscopes in a dust-free area , for example surrounded by Perspex dust covers . |
| 14 | There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word . |
| 15 | When those patients with none or one recorded diabetes related problem were compared with those with two or more problems they were found to have significantly better control . |
| 16 | Brigadier-General Arturo Enrile , the government negotiator , said the mutineers had initially demanded Mrs Aquino 's resignation , but eventually ‘ reason prevailed over whatever political or ideoligical convictions they had . ’ |
| 17 | Brigadier-General Arturo Enrile , the government negotiator , said the mutineers had initially demanded Mrs Aquino 's resignation , but eventually ‘ reason prevailed over whatever political or ideoligical convictions they had . ’ |
| 18 | Dickens does this by his attention to even the smallest detail of the characters ' appearance , which includes their faces , clothes and especially any odd phrases or physical blemishes they have as in the case of Pumblechook and his , ‘ I have brought you , Mum , ’ and in Melly 's and Herbert 's cases , that of her strong wrists and his pale young complexion . |
| 19 | But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty . |
| 20 | Most enterprise-based unions remain fairly self-contained and although many do affiliate to the appropriate national , regional or industrial federations they accord them little authority for conducting collective bargaining or sanctioning agreements . |
| 21 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 22 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 23 | The affinity between dog and cat reveals itself in the number of equi-status or near-equi-status traits they have in common ; and the differences between dog and cat appear more sharply when the affinity patterns are articulated in greater detail by means of diagnostic frames . |
| 24 | Other people 's methods of handling those problems , or any others they may have , for that matter , are of no interest to me whatever . |
| 25 | I sat down with LIFE and worked through their philosophy , erm in line with our own as it were , and they agreed , and I would ask them to agree this year that any paperwork or any leaflets they distribute make it very clear that a choice remains for a woman in terms of whether or not she should have an abortion , because LIFE is fairly , yes , Michael ? |
| 26 | Without shelter or shady places they may cower in the corners . |
| 27 | Where peasants have inferior legal and civil rights to those enjoyed by the rich and powerful , in fact , whatever the theory , they can be coerced non-economically , and on Wallachian , Andalusian or Sicilian estates they were . |
| 28 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 29 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 30 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |