Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On or around them the chief bookshops are to be found . |
| 2 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 3 | Colleges should be doing to meet the needs of Roman Catholic schools , notwithstanding the harsh economic regime they share with the rest of higher education , it seems fair to conclude that without them the Roman Catholic educational sector would be very much the poorer . |
| 4 | Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances . |
| 5 | In the foreground are the old bogies , in the background the old top-cover , and between them the newly-constructed sides . |
| 6 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 7 | On landings above and below them the same routine was in practice . |
| 8 | A Mercedes and a Zim , bumper to bumper , blocking both lanes of the carriageway and behind them the menacing silhouette of a T-77 tank , its barrel aimed directly at the oncoming van . |
| 9 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 10 | The conditions of the farm worker , and with them the everyday life of the village community , could vary considerably across the country according to the distribution of landholding , the nature of agricultural production and the pattern of settlement . |
| 11 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 12 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 13 | Wars became ever more expensive , and with them the national debt rose to heights that to contemporaries seemed awesome ( see Table 9.2 ) . |
| 14 | A mile and a kick south-west of Bainbridge itself are " the shining levels " of Semer Water and above them the flat-topped hill of Addlebrough , where the Devil and a giant are said to have thrown stones at one another . |
| 15 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 16 | They had few friends in France , and without them the dazzling night life meant nothing . |
| 17 | She was conscious of the silent castle rooms enclosing them , and beyond them the outer walls , and beyond those the barren miles of frozen snow . |
| 18 | For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon , and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late , that she was a frontier province of the Greek world ; beyond lay Illyrians , Dardanians and Thracians , and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe , undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower . |
| 19 | I saw two small spires through the spy-hole , and beyond them the intense red haze of the kiln chamber . |
| 20 | Thus could pangenesis unify all Darwin 's generation theorizing from gemmules to organisms and on to species , and beyond them the whole tree of life . |
| 21 | There was still a smell of burning in the air , and around them the blackened shells of buildings were stark under a covering of snow . |
| 22 | Here one must concentrate , not on those explanations of the Second and Third Ages which Tolkien wrote as background for The Lord of the Rings , but on his labour and preoccupation for nearly sixty years , the legends of the First Age : Tuor and Tûrin in the Unfinished Tales , but beyond and around them the whole ‘ narrative structure ’ of The Silmarillion . |
| 23 | These do not reflect activity from the eyes individually , but between them the two channels will record an eye movement in any direction . |
| 24 | At the turn for home Baby Turk led from Nemain and Acatenango , but behind them the four runners owned by the Aga Khan — Shardari , Dinistan , Darara and Shahrastani — were making their efforts , and over a quarter of a mile out Shardari hit the front , closely pursued by Shahrastani and Darara . |
| 25 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 26 | They had been conquered by Menelik but among them the Abyssinian imprint was as yet barely discernible , for which I was thankful . |
| 27 | … less than ten feet away Patrick Lundy and Jane Bradley , followed Michael Collins down the carpeted corridor , while behind them the silent bodyguard carefully locked the door after them . |
| 28 | Constance was thrilled at her first sight of the red terracotta tiles of Italy , glowing in the morning air as above them the pale blue sky deepened . |