Example sentences of "they [vb base] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say the economists ' approach is winning a greater acceptance among doctors and health service managers because they appreciate that money is limited and choices have to be made on where it should be spent . |
| 2 | Not all firms are ‘ market orientated ’ to the extent that they put the customers ' needs and wants before all else . |
| 3 | I am sure that it will be fully appreciated by the people of Scotland when they assess the parties ' policies at the election , including the policies of those who advocate a lesser or greater degree of Scotland 's separation from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | They get the mens ' numbers , but the men ca n't ring them . |
| 5 | Princes , he said , should not persecute discrepant opinions unless they were harmful ; all Christians who subscribed to the Apostles ' Creed should be tolerated , even Anabaptists , even Roman Catholics , for , though the latter 's doctrines were ‘ superstructures ill built and worse managed ’ , ‘ yet they keep the foundation ; they build upon God in Jesus Christ , they profess the Apostles ' Creed ’ . |
| 6 | The police , who are running their own campaign against rural crime , say they understand the farmers ' worries , but hope the private firms soon wo n't be needed . |
| 7 | Wright J. set aside paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order dated 5 June 1991 on the grounds that they infringe the defendants ' privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 8 | Reliable domestiques are the stars ' most valued comrades — and by long tradition they share the stars ' winnings . |
| 9 | As special deposits are compulsory , by using them the Bank can be sure of reducing the banks ' liquid assets , and they are equivalent to an open-market sale , in that they reduce the banks ' ability to increase credit ( and hence the money supply ) . |
| 10 | They understand children and they have the children 's best interests at heart . |
| 11 | The fact that other parties respond at just these code switch points suggests that they represent the boundaries of salient categories within the talk — or putting it another way , that they represent the participants ' perceptions of the relevant sections of talk which require or permit a response — even where these boundaries do not correspond with any syntactic boundary . |