Example sentences of "they of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Parsons , deputy Treasurer to the Queen , has written to staff to warn them of the new tax regulation . |
| 2 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 3 | It urges them t to press for full prosecution disclosure and advises them of the frequent need to obtain their own evaluation of prosecution scientific evidence . |
| 4 | ‘ We do n't tell them of the major side effects for fear of losing them ’ Field worker , Kenya |
| 5 | He reminds them of the confidential nature of the case : nobody is to discuss it outside the room . |
| 6 | The result was a schism by the Thompson-Chesson group and the formation by them of the short-lived North of England Anti-Slavery and India Reform League . |
| 7 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 8 | If both cooperate ( with each other , not with the authorities ) by refusing to speak , there is not enough evidence to convict either of them of the main crime , and they receive a small sentence for a lesser offence , the Reward for mutual cooperation . |
| 9 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 10 | Workers in nuclear and radiographic installations would then not need radiation badges , or monitoring instruments to warn them of the unseen danger all around . |
| 11 | In founding Lampsacus they killed off all the natives , but they did it in self-defence ; the daughter of the local king had warned them of the impending attack . |
| 12 | It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought . |
| 13 | A letter was sent to the parish officers of Kempston informing them of the gross impropriety of their conduct respecting the patient and the institution . |
| 14 | To a population existing on ‘ Dr Negrín 's Resistance Pills ’ — lentils — leaflets dropped from Nationalist aircraft , informing them of the plentiful food in the Nationalist zone , were weapons as potent as bombs . |
| 15 | The mix-up in dates has also occurred in other parts of the country and Neil Dickinson , secretary of the English Schools AAA , wrote to county secretaries a month ago reminding them of the recommended date . |
| 16 | In May 1412 a treaty ( that of Bourges ) was sealed between Henry IV and the dukes of Berry , Bourbon , and Orléans which gave the English king much of what his predecessors had spent years fighting for : a recognition that Aquitaine was rightfully English , and an undertaking to help the king defend it ; the cession of twenty important towns and castles ; and agreement that certain lands , notably Poitou , were to be held by them of the English crown , and would revert to it when the present holders died . |
| 17 | Then , on April 8th , while on patrol the ‘ Lieutenant Mathematician ’ captured two German deserters , who conveniently warned them of the coming attack . |
| 18 | Riders from the Empire sent word to Bretonnia , Kislev , and the southern kingdoms warning them of the inevitable approach of the armada . |