Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 2 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 3 | They all like a dryish soil in full sun ; in rich conditions or in shady spots they tend to grow too lush and produce too few flowers . |
| 4 | Physical anthropologists and socio-cultural anthropologists have different fields of interest but their respective territories are not separated by an impenetrable wall ; or at any rate they ought not to be . |
| 5 | His knowledge of these people and his influence with them , was due to his own efforts — or at any rate they were nothing to do with these employers . |
| 6 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 7 | Foremen are promoted from the ranks of production workers and as pivotal intermediaries they have quasi-managerial status . |
| 8 | The Taylors ' main aim is to make their guests feel very welcome and as committed Christians they are happy to see the Mount Hotel used as a retreat . |
| 9 | Shareholders , however , own the firm and generally appoint managers to run it , and as residual claimants they will want to ensure that the value of the firm is maximized . |
| 10 | Where written records do survive they are as a rule woefully incomplete , and for prehistoric communities they are by definition completely absent . |
| 11 | Aldershot 's neat football , in difficult windy conditions , kept them well in the game and for long spells they were firmly in control . |
| 12 | In terms of needing help , these are precisely the most vulnerable groups , and for good reasons they have therefore received more attention in earlier work on the elderly . |
| 13 | These processes are known as ‘ extrusion ’ and ‘ injection moulding ’ and for many purposes they have proved the cheapest of all manufacturing methods . |
| 14 | All these diets are low-calorie ones , and for many people they have been highly successful . |
| 15 | Everyone suffers from them — and for many people they mean days of agonising pain . |
| 16 | brought the downfall of the Asante nation and for this reason they had to bury their money underground so that more money was hidden underground than on the earth . |
| 17 | Children often want to protect other people and for this reason they may be reluctant to ask questions . |
| 18 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
| 19 | He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it . |
| 20 | ‘ And for some reason they thought you were a fellow deadbeat ? ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , they would have been inspired by the promise that they , as loyal adherents of the Messiah , would be granted a unique recompense for their fidelity and for any suffering they had incurred . |
| 22 | He turned into the one occupied by his stepmother , switched off the motor , and for several moments they sat looking at the house whose drawn blinds and closed windows seemed to proclaim its emptiness . |
| 23 | In addition , large numbers of drifter buoys were launched into the ocean off Peru and for several months they were tracked via the Argos satellite as they drifted with the surface currents . |
| 24 | Previously , " the classics " ( or some of them ) were a possession of the educated classes in general and for those classes they constituted a natural part of experience , forming a continuum with modern literatures and ideas . |
| 25 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 26 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 27 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 28 | Senses rioted , coherent thought fled , and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them . |
| 29 | Through the forum of the Zemsky sobor and through joint petitions they were able to exert considerable pressure upon state policy . |
| 30 | Ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell and through constant practice they learn the difference between a rabbit and vermin , knowing which they should kill and which they simply hold . |