Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] they [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 2 | Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win . |
| 3 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 4 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 5 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 6 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 7 | But the equally necessary professional detachment of undertakers gives them a valuable view of human reactions . |
| 8 | It enables adaptation of plants and animals to human purposes that would be beyond the reach of traditional breeding techniques ; an example is the insertion of toxin genes from bacteria into plants to give them an in-built system for poisoning pests . |
| 9 | Each platoon had placed two men on guard duty , with orders to change them every two hours , to ensure that no one went without rest . |
| 10 | To make a profit , drug dealers sell you short measures or mix all sorts of dangerous materials in with drugs to give them a bigger share of the profits or to finance their own drug habits . |
| 11 | Pluralism is a development of democratic theory and recognises that often individuals can best get their views heard by combining in groups to give them a stronger voice . |
| 12 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
| 13 | You might decide to offer Work Experience to pupils to give them a taste of working life while they are still at school , or you might offer a teacher a secondment to industry . |
| 14 | Yesterday a court agreed to police holding them a further 36 hours . |
| 15 | Their fondness for congregating in a Tokyo park on Sundays makes them the most visible target of discrimination . |
| 16 | The level of tuition fees charged to students gives them the right to expect a professional standard of service , particularly with regard to test-marking ; the Education Service is judged , to a considerable extent , by that criterion . |
| 17 | The group that Portes subsumes under the heading of a dominant class are internally divided , but have enough in common for Portes to call them a class . |
| 18 | Coding can be done by interviewers to give them a break and to sustain their interest , but is more usually done by special staff . |
| 19 | The vouchers could be cashed by employers offering them a job contract for a minimum of two years . |