Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their ultimate source is maps from Roman imperial times , but in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they received such modifications as the placing of Jerusalem in the centre , as on the Hereford map . |
| 2 | When monks from France and Flanders were settled in the Border abbeys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they introduced new skills , and also devoted themselves to the expansion of sheep rearing to provide the necessary basic material . |
| 3 | If they do n't have the waiver of premiums they get more units , because the more money goes into the er , whatsit . |
| 4 | I mention them briefly because among management trainers they have many aficionados ; they are written about more fully elsewhere . |
| 5 | To separate their individual styles they split those evenings into consecutive 1520 minute slots and they retain that format for the tour . |
| 6 | So if somebody just writes those two words they get two marks . |
| 7 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 8 | During autumn and winter months they produce increased amounts of more fertile semen , the malodorous scent glands behind the horn-bearing areas increase in activity and libido and such charming habits as spraying the backs of their front legs with urine increase . |
| 9 | There are instances of change in diet related to habitat : tawny owls living in wooded areas eat more moles and fewer birds , whereas in more open areas they eat more voles and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 10 | In some older dances they each hold a corner of a handkerchief to form a link and in some areas they link little fingers . |
| 11 | As a result , cats spend a great deal of time every day dealing with their toilet , and in addition to the typical licking movements they perform repeated scratchings . |
| 12 | A third , technical question — how temporary jobs affect rights to unemployment compensation and under what circumstances they open new rights to benefits — is dealt with in an appendix . |
| 13 | The , the normal family of two point four children , or whatever , is not the normal family nowadays , you 've got lone parent families , you 've got step parent families , reconstituted families , policies and services should take account of all the different needs of those different sorts of families , and very complex lives they lead these days ? |
| 14 | They have a lower level of seats , like the new East Stand , but instead of an upper level of seats they have executive boxes for the assorted reptilia who frequent such places . |
| 15 | In addition to working directly with pupils with special needs they advise mainstream teachers about programmes of work and they carry out detailed diagnostic assessment as necessary . |
| 16 | In the old days they carried twenty-four horses in a car , but there was no centre aisle , eh ? |
| 17 | In ten days , the unknown Fayeds gained permission to own House of Fraser , and throughout the ten days they put continuous lies before the public to justify the Government permissions they had got with such ease . |
| 18 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
| 19 | In four days they moved nine kilometres . |
| 20 | They discussed ways of simulating the turmoil or ‘ non-equilibrium ’ conditions of the Earth and among these ideas they considered electric discharges . |
| 21 | We 're going to make them fulfil the promises they made three years ago . |
| 22 | For meeting places they had private houses such as that of Richard Key at Eastden ; pride and strength in their chapels came later . |
| 23 | To these questions they offered three policies for peace in Europe : disarmament , collective security through the League of Nations and the restoration of German territories stripped away by the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 24 | Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language , skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire . |
| 25 | And we can expect to see the curricula they offer encouraging students to enter the highest levels of the rational life . |
| 26 | Absolutely , the things they get those horses to do . |
| 27 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 28 | And for lorries they say four seconds . |
| 29 | These lexical items act upon the grammar to constrain the temporariness sense since as lexical items they denote temporary activities . |
| 30 | using the surface textures of everyday items they produce lively images full of expressive pattern and rhythm . |