Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 2 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 3 | They all like a dryish soil in full sun ; in rich conditions or in shady spots they tend to grow too lush and produce too few flowers . |
| 4 | Physical anthropologists and socio-cultural anthropologists have different fields of interest but their respective territories are not separated by an impenetrable wall ; or at any rate they ought not to be . |
| 5 | His knowledge of these people and his influence with them , was due to his own efforts — or at any rate they were nothing to do with these employers . |
| 6 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 7 | The newspaper Sovyetsyaka Kultura quoted Voronezh residents as saying that between 23-29 September they had repeatedly seen UFOs — including a three-eyed humanoid , a robot and a raygun which makes mere earthlings disappear . |
| 8 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 9 | ‘ After the tent blew down we renegotiated the situation so that for 11 performances they would receive the same fee . |
| 10 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 11 | He supposed that for some reason they became rarer in thin fibres and almost non-existent in the very thinnest fibres , perhaps because there was simply no room for them . |
| 12 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 13 | This is because those who are inside the system recognize that as potential sharers they are not equal . |
| 14 | The sacring of emperors , kings and bishops signified an acceptance that as Christian rulers they governed subject to eternal or divine laws . |
| 15 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 16 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 17 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 20 | I asked our education correspondent , Mike Baker , to list some of the topics he felt that with more space they could cover properly . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm a storyteller , and so I can show readers that people think in a certain way , and suggest to readers that under those circumstances they might thing in the same way . |
| 22 | Professor Stewart and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham identified a number of difficulties with these proposed changes , although with academic care they added the proviso : ‘ to identify problems is not to draw a conclusion ’ ( Stewart et al . |
| 23 | Does he realise that the islanders have run the ferry for many years and that until this year they received not a penny of subsidy , unlike the Scottish ferries ? |
| 24 | Even for the three vertebrate cases , the ways in which the wing is constructed are quite different , although in each case they are modifications of the same fundamental structure , the pentadactyl limb . |
| 25 | Hibernation deaths are probably common , although in most cases they probably result in isolated carcases well apart from each other . |
| 26 | C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains . |
| 27 | To add to their guilt at this lack of self-control , some books say that from 36 weeks , pregnant women are n't likely to gain any more weight and that from 38 weeks they may even lose some ! |
| 28 | Members are also reminded that from 1 January they have to have a practising certificate . |
| 29 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
| 30 | Social workers must recognise , therefore , that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group . |