Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sigmar representatives are very influential , and because they cast their votes for the same candidate they wield influence out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 2 | For the same reason they have focused on the groups who seemed most likely to be needy : the working class in the inner city , the isolated and the institutionalized . |
| 3 | For the same reason they understand why Gandalf tells Frodo not to use the Ring ( use always causes addiction ) ; why Sam , Bilbo and Frodo nevertheless survive their use of it ( addiction in early stages is curable ) ; why Boromir succumbs to the Ring without handling it ( use has to be preceded by desire ) ; and why Faramir can shrug it off ( a wise person is capable of stifling the desire to become addicted , though no wisdom will stifle addiction once contracted ) . |
| 4 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 5 | A. If your Temporales are still about the same size they I am afraid it is extremely likely that you have two of the same sex , as size is a major sexual difference in this species , with males around 50 per cent bigger in all directions than females . |
| 6 | By December of the same year they had two similar groups and by March 1988 , three and at this stage they began to meet all together monthly for a celebration . |
| 7 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 8 | A recent survey found only three out of ten women started a business of the same type they had worked in previously . |
| 9 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to supply details of relevant experience over the previous five years , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to personal injury work . |
| 10 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five-year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to demonstrate at least the same level of competence covering their experience , skills and knowledge as when they initially joined the panel , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to medical negligence work . |
| 11 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |
| 12 | She was turned fifteen now , and had a wise old head on her shoulders ; in many ways , the girl reminded Beth of Maisie ; like two peas from the same pod they were . |
| 13 | As soon as I realised they thought I was knackered from the same route they had just walked , I was speechless with indignation . |
| 14 | The Archbishop of Canterbury and the bishops renewed the sentence of excommunication against the violators of the Charters in 1239 and in 1253 ; in the latter year they secured its confirmation by Pope Innocent IV . |
| 15 | It is , though , usual to distinguish between electrostatics and magnetostatics ; in the former case the variables are p , E , and D , whereas in the latter case they are J , H , and B. |
| 16 | People speak to house plants , so in the latter case they could speak to money as well , which would make a change from money talking . |
| 17 | In the former role they take responsibility for the design , teaching and assessment of individual modules ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 18 | And my mother came from the farm along the shore and they were in the same position they worked with boats too . |
| 19 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |
| 20 | In the same way they look up into the night sky to see the stars and feel the awe and wonder of the infinite worlds with their infinite distances into which may be submerged all our preoccupations as if we had washed our souls in the oceans of space . |
| 21 | As Mr Day points out : ‘ To the small and medium sized company , all accountants are very much the same and , with the increasing competition from certified and unqualified accountants , I do n't believe that at the lower end of the market chartered accountants will ever get back on the pedestal in the same way they used to be . |
| 22 | In the same way they learn the trees that are good for firewood or building , for supporting the yams or propping the bananas , those that resist white ants or make the best bee-hives , stools or grain mortars and pestles . |
| 23 | He expressed to Ridley his fears that , come the winter months , when payloads on the North Atlantic dropped alarmingly , the big airlines could very easily get together to squeeze Virgin out of the market-place , in the same way they had squeezed out Laker . |
| 24 | An interesting comment from the Arts representative was that ‘ it is financially impossible to train people in the same way they did 5 years ago ’ . |
| 25 | Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them . |
| 26 | As proof , he says 95 per cent of Soul 2/UFO 's crowd ‘ leave in the same state they came in ( ie , not drunk ) . |
| 27 | Lough Melvin in Ireland has three sub-populations of the brown trout-Ferox , Gillaroo and Sonaghen — and although these feed together in the same lake they return to separate rivers to breed as adults and so the different sub-populations are maintained . |
| 28 | By 1815 , a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt . |
| 29 | Yet almost in the same breath they stated that men should earn more because they had ‘ wives and bairns ’ to support . |
| 30 | In the same advertisement they offered a set of ‘ Folding Door Gear ( Carriage Free ) . ’ |