Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
| 2 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 3 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 4 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 5 | To the north-west of Lake Baikal it was the Evenkis who absorbed Ket people as they advanced westward to the Yenisei and beyond . |
| 6 | They were a very sober pair as they set out again for Gore . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't live as close to other folk as they do , ’ he remarked to his father . |
| 8 | In the final chapter the narrator relates the actions of the new people as they flee from their encounter with the Neanderthalers . |
| 9 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 10 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 11 | We must redouble our efforts to help the Russian people as they struggle in an effort that has no historical precedent , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Like any other European colonialists , they were content to rely upon the services of interpreters from among the local people as they advanced farther into unknown territory . |