Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb base] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their assumption of systematically traceable content , either reflected or mediated , they have considerable common ground , and between them have produced much valuable work . |
| 2 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 3 | It is a major procedure with a small but not insignificant mortality rate and some patients experience severe and persistent side-effects , although many of them seem to regard these as preferable to being ‘ superobese ’ . |
| 4 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 5 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 6 | This is all the more necessary because , although some facilitating devices such as information agreements may be made the subject of prohibitions , the majority of them appear to escape these . |
| 7 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |
| 8 | As the Party has grown and recruited more articulate and able activists , a number of the old ‘ war-horses ’ have been put out to grass and , quite naturally , some of them have resented this . |
| 9 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 10 | And Carl sa I was speaking to Carl today and he said , well surely , you know the three of them have weighed that up ? |
| 11 | Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently . |
| 12 | provided all all of them have got that one in . |
| 13 | Yeah worth switching on anyway , quite a few of them have got these er carriages in ? |
| 14 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 15 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |
| 16 | Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ? |
| 17 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 18 | With them have gone much of the outrageously condescending theorising expressed by professionals such as Watney Mann 's head designer Roy Wilson-Smith , who declared in the early 70s : |
| 19 | Always work a sample for tension with these lace patterns , fabrics with holes in them tend to need fewer stitches because the work becomes more elastic . |
| 20 | In literature , though there are still cases of artisanal and distributive post-artisanal relations , productive post-artisanal relations have long been dominant , and important internal changes within them have taken much publishing into a later market phase . |
| 21 | Erm they were talking about moving it and everything there was a big fuss about it last week well now there 's a fuss about they want to pull all the trees down around it as well . |
| 22 | In between they have experienced all sorts of eccentric people and weird events . |