Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 2 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 3 | The play tells several stories , such as young love , but most of all it tells of the magnificent Madame MacAdam and her troupe and of the comic and tragic effects they have upon an isolated community . |
| 4 | On the other hand , as the new scheme stands , it will make little impact on the poverty experienced by lone mothers ; there is still no adequate compensation for women for the costs they bear as a consequence of inequalities in marriage and child-rearing ; and the financial dependency of individual women on individual men is maintained . |
| 5 | Our interest , however , lies in the principles employed by the pupils themselves to fit the actions they describe into a meaningful framework . |
| 6 | In mathematics and the sciences they fail in a rather different way : they simply are not demanding enough , especially in mathematics . |
| 7 | EVERY retailer , big or small , selling electrical and gas appliances , will be obliged to ‘ energy label ’ the items they sell under a European Commission proposal . |
| 8 | We shall go on improving education and training to guarantee that all our children have the basic knowledge and skills they need in a modern economy . |
| 9 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |
| 10 | Military commanders sometimes push a salient forward but at other times they advance on a broad front . |
| 11 | Conceptualising , therefore , is best understood as the mental effort that people make in understanding their circumstances and attempting to find solutions to the practical problems and frustrations they find on a day-to-day basis . |
| 12 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 13 | In a report published today the Association claims that most people can get all the vitamins they need from a healthy diet . |
| 14 | The Bolshevik claim to represent the true interests of the masses they regard as an arrogant illusion born of a fundamentally false doctrine . |
| 15 | Chemists are paid for the costs of the drugs they dispense on an NHS doctor 's prescription . |
| 16 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
| 17 | If they are made to feel lesser , to any type of women they react with a certain machismo to try and subvert that . |
| 18 | For the men , garments are symbolic markers of filial love and recognition , whereas for the women they serve as a means of self-inscription in a system that neglects them … . |