Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they enter college wedded through their own experience to an implicit theory of schooling and teaching that will serve as a working template for some groups of pupils they teach , but which will be wildly inappropriate for others . |
| 2 | Corbett and Ranulf finished off the meagre scraps of food they had begged from the kitchen and hurried down . |
| 3 | When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails . |
| 4 | The word seemed to him to describe perfectly the smelly , often damp cakes of earth they were forced to burn since coal supplies had been so reduced by the constant cancellation of goods trains . |
| 5 | However , it is clear that the high levels of stress they reported experiencing did not have disastrous effects on their ability to recall the event . |
| 6 | Det Chief Insp George Brown , who is leading the murder hunt , said yesterday that members of the public had volunteered more than 300 names of people they believed matched the descriptions of the two attackers . |
| 7 | We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 8 | In achieving this end , essays follow certain general patterns of development and direction , which are definable in terms of the focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 9 | Many with memories of school retreats that were a matter of being silent and often boring , wonder about the different types of retreat they hear about today . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact , Jason reminds people of Ellery so much that in some parts of Yorkshire they refer to him as Black Pearl II . |
| 11 | These figures were produced in support of the employers ' position in the course of a bitter wage dispute ; the weavers claimed that on some types of cloth they could hardly make 4d ( 2p ) a day . |
| 12 | Travellers , taking the main road from Paris to Madrid , entered Spain through the steep green hills of the Basque Provinces ; returning thither from the burnt highlands of Castile they were ‘ revived by the sight of a rich studied culture , a clean-looking smiling people , good furniture , neat houses , fine woods , good roads and safe bridges ’ . |
| 13 | Had they obeyed the accepted rules of warfare they would have stayed somewhere ‘ further down ’ . |
| 14 | Although factors such as stature , age , and duodenal ulcer disease affect the absolute values of Vg they can have little or no effect on the changes in someone consequent upon smoking a cigarette : thus despite the small numbers studied the 25% fall is highly significant . |
| 15 | It is that same voyage of discovery that the organisers of The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition are hoping the public will experience through the 100 pieces of work they have put on show . |
| 16 | GIRLS as young as nine are dieting in the hope of achieving the willowy figures of models they admire in fashion magazines and on television . |
| 17 | Supercomputing — High-performance computers costing millions of pounds can not be sited at every university that needs their computational power ; Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding . |
| 18 | Half-lives of various radionuclides , together with the principal types of radiation they emit , are summarized in table 5.2 . |
| 19 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 20 | What were these Acts of Parliament they spoke of , to do with factories and labour ? |
| 21 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 22 | When I confirmed that it was called the Skein of Geese , she pulled out one of those little books of matches they give away in such places and said : ‘ The same as this , you mean ? ’ |
| 23 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 24 | If you choose one of these kinds of carpets they should be laid on the paper to stop them sticking to the floor . |
| 25 | The actuals remain of importance but in these kinds of organizations they take an equal place alongside the budget . |
| 26 | African heads of state will in future have to explain the origins of any large sums of money they deposit in Swiss banks . |
| 27 | In large sections of Punjab they extort money ( calling it taxation ) , hold courts , decree what local newspapers should print and even decide what dress schoolchildren should wear . |
| 28 | In the brief moments of respite they get they sometimes wonder , like Champaben , a homeworker ; |
| 29 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 30 | Er every , every employer who has laid people off has mentioned making er strident efforts to er replace people alternative employment , some they already have but , in many cases of course they have not . |