Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 2 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 3 | Makarenko describes them in this way : |
| 4 | The Industrial Revolution affected them in many ways , by providing iron and steel for shipbuilding , by applying steam to propelling the ship , by developing more powerful guns and harder armour . |
| 5 | It is the fear of an election that at present prevents them in many instances from disobeying their party whip . |
| 6 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 7 | An even more vital skill in long migratory flights is accurate navigation , and birds have another special sense to aid them in this . |
| 8 | But their recording finds them in less than top form , and Solti sometimes leads them astray . |
| 9 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 10 | The court was bound by the maximum aggregate of six months in section 133 in respect of these offences , and the jurisdiction to pass them in this form did not exist . |
| 11 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 12 | The ideological demand that communists should seek to improve the accommodation of the people was subordinate to the aspiration to house them in such a way as to make it easier to supervise them and mould them as the Party saw fit . |
| 13 | Notation or codes are appended to a sequence of topics in order to arrange them in some clearly defined order . |
| 14 | The representation of personages on monuments before the second quarter of the fifteenth century showed them in all their might , majesty and power , attired in their finery and dressed to illustrate their status . |
| 15 | Of those who reported that their disability handicapped them in some way , 90 per cent stated that they ‘ had to take special care ’ and 86 per cent reported a restricted work or social life . |