Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support . |
| 2 | To find out if gastrointestinal symptoms ( and signs when present ) can accurately predict the need for specific investigations they were related to the endoscopic and colonic findings . |
| 3 | However , for normal purposes they are perfectly adequate and offer the best solution for the home or small business user who can not afford the more professional systems . |
| 4 | Until these persons can be segregated and properly disposed of as displaced persons they should be accorded the same treatment as the forces they accompany . " |
| 5 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |
| 6 | Senses rioted , coherent thought fled , and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them . |
| 7 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 8 | They 'd been delighted therefore to renew acquaintanceship at the beginning of the tour ; and thereafter had spent many an hour together , talking about old comrades they 'd known — those who 'd come through , and those who had n't … and reminiscing about some of the ‘ local talent ’ the GIs had been only too happy to discover , in Oxford itself and in some of the surrounding towns and villages . |
| 9 | But it was his eyes that compelled her gaze ; between generous lashes they glowed with an amber back-light . |
| 10 | If she starts talking about sexual matters they may jump in hastily , saying , ‘ Do n't talk about that ’ without explaining why they are disturbed by what she has said . |
| 11 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 12 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 13 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 14 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
| 15 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 16 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |
| 17 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 18 | For some children they are more socially deprived , and yet they may be getting considerable ‘ education ’ in inverted commas within their home environment . |
| 19 | For some children they are more socially deprived , and yet they may be getting considerable ‘ education ’ in inverted commas within their home environment . |
| 20 | After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July . |
| 21 | For some purposes they might be , for others ( particularly in their general lack of women students ) they could be quite misleading . |
| 22 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 23 | For some cells they had the strong impression that the response increased the more the object resembled a monkey 's hand , while in others the trigger feature appeared to be a monkey 's face or head . |
| 24 | It is that which drives on Walter Smith 's staff and after eight games they remain undefeated — and unaffected by whatever mishaps come their way . |
| 25 | After some minutes they went up to the room . |
| 26 | After some seconds they straightened , looked at each other again , then bent forward once more . |
| 27 | After some weeks they said he was recovering , but had been ordered by doctors to rest . |
| 28 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 29 | The hall just could n't cope and after six songs they retreated to the dressing room . |
| 30 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |