Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral .
2 In these signals they hope to read the bidding and counter bidding of the two ovaries .
3 Once students have achieved Compact goals they have gained an entitlement to an offer of employment from a Compact employer .
4 Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews .
5 Attractions they 've produced a very commendable rise in revenue and profits er , from the Tussaud group , although as you will recall most of the profits in the group come in July and August .
6 As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day .
7 In other words they needed to experience the ‘ sanctuary game ’ before they could cope with a ‘ breaking of sanctuary game ’ .
8 Lesser folk were aggrieved by the foresters ' interference with their rights of common in the Forest ; the Forest officers for their part reported that privileges they claimed had no warrant .
9 In the fifteen months Since Paul and Wayne took over the roles they 've seen the audience grow and get younger with children as young as four who 've seen the repeats joining the audience …
10 You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income .
11 Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built .
12 Within twelve months they had bought an old but clean and respectable grocery van to take around the roads of the South London suburbs .
13 However , that still leaves ministers well short of the 13 million tonnes they need to guarantee the future of enough pits .
14 But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty .
15 With a paucity of effects they seem to piece the cool of a Julian Cope/Teardrops sensitivity with a certain vigour that only us young ones can adopt .
16 ‘ Unfortunately , the nearest surface units are elements of the Red Navy , ’ Connors continued , ‘ and to complicate matters they 've got a sub even closer , capable of reaching the area sometime after dawn .
17 : The state can forbid persons to give evidence on subjects specified by it if at any time in their lives they have taken the Official Secrets Oath .
18 These processes are known as ‘ extrusion ’ and ‘ injection moulding ’ and for many purposes they have proved the cheapest of all manufacturing methods .
19 For two weeks they managed to evade the press .
20 Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added .
21 And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know .
22 For two days they battled to cross the Snake River , swollen by winter 's melted snows .
23 Figure 3.4 At birth , herring gull chicks will peck equally at models of adult bills of either herring or laughing gulls ; but after seven days they have developed a preference for the model of the adult of their own species .
24 Peers visit him once a month to hand over expenses forms on which they specify the days they have attended the Chamber for debates .
25 In the past few days they have detected a slide in that support .
26 So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year .
27 It concerned a smuggling gang who had previously used a minibus to bring the drugs from Morocco , but because of increased activity by the Spanish Customs they decided to operate a seaborne campaign using a yacht called Cornish Lady .
28 There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word .
29 Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan .
30 It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages .
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