Example sentences of "in [adj] the [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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1 | The British swept aside traditional food-and-agriculture systems in all the countries they ruled , replacing them with food-store and cash-cropping . |
2 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
3 | All we 're asking for , as I think perhaps the council will knock it down anyway in all the letters they 've written you do n't . |
4 | as if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built ! |
5 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
6 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
7 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
8 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
9 | Thus individuals ' social backgrounds will affect their performance in an IQ test , and in particular the deprivations they experience as members of a low social stratum will reduce their IQ score . |
10 | So although lexicographers may purposely employ experts to contribute to the compilation of definitions in more esoteric domains , it is nevertheless the case that more everyday words will have more widely understood patterns of usage that are reflected in both the definitions they possess and the manner in which they are used in a typical business letter . |