Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's why they stood up against Hitler , after their minuscule fires they could n't have cared less about the bombs . ’ |
| 2 | After their initial meeting they reconvened in March 1838 and lobbied parliament heavily . |
| 3 | And when I ask about their installed base they change the subject . ’ |
| 4 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 5 | Through their own efforts they have created a happier , healthier environment for their children . |
| 6 | Beyond these specific issues , there was an acute sense within the Essex Federation of the general threat posed by professionalism to the WEA 's essential character : and several leading voluntary members came to feel that through their own initiative they could advance the movement more effectively than any tutor-organiser . |
| 7 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 8 | However , because it is new , there is no single systematic source of information about its elected members--who they are , their particular interests and their political activities . |
| 9 | For their trireme warships they used the steering technique of an external oar and this copied in today 's dragon boats . |
| 10 | In return for their hard work they get a chance to fulfil a lifetime ambition . |
| 11 | So spare a thought for their original research they speak with feeling of badly-signed junctions and of chaos over the A1 and its renaming round Tyneside . |
| 12 | Monmouth Unionists backed another fund , but for their own candidate they chose the nephew of their president , Lord Tredegar . |
| 13 | If they do not then deny them as possible bases for their own action they defeat the very point and purpose of the arbitration . |
| 14 | For their own safety they should stand back to back so that they have a completely free field of fire over 180 degrees each . |
| 15 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 16 | I thought the Danakil an attractive-looking people , and despite their murderous reputation they appeared to manifest a genuine friendliness . |
| 17 | By custom they sat in private and not in court , and they were referred to as a domestic tribunal whatever part of their visitorial functions they were performing . |
| 18 | At one of their great festivals they have the ritual of driving out the devils from their bodies . |
| 19 | Because of their cationic nature they are attracted to plastics and cellulose products . |
| 20 | Regardless of their sacerdotal status they , too , had to provide sufficient funds for their endowment but , as they were often as wealthy and powerful as the nobility , this was no hardship . |
| 21 | Even the process of normal development required something of self-sacrifice about it , as women learned that instead of their early pleasures they must be content with the possibility of having a child . |
| 22 | As an earnest of their firm intentions they have been consolidating flights in December , which is unprecedented . |
| 23 | As a consequence of the foregoing and in order to establish the basis of their mutual understanding they execute this document in the following terms : |
| 24 | Second will guarantee a UEFA place , and I think if Leeds can get out of the rut of drawing so many of their recent games they will attain this position . |
| 25 | Because of their traditional background they are easy to handle and have a notably long life : one cow produced and reared 30 calves of her own . |
| 26 | In spite of their unsystematic nature they were nevertheless very influential in constructing a particular image of political woman . |
| 27 | While councillors are representative of their local communities they are certainly not socially representative of the population . |
| 28 | As often happens in such cases , a distinct style was evolved during the early stages of each painter 's development , but by the time of their full development they had diverged . |
| 29 | By using words which originated in the context of their own society they imply that the institutions of that society have some kind of privileged universality . |
| 30 | To the innermost heart of their own land they are known |