Example sentences of "they [vb base] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership of an economic community requires the acceptance of a financial obligation to fund the objectives of the organisation whether they consist of the limited objectives of a regional trading group , or the more extensive objectives of an economic union . |
| 2 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |
| 3 | … it is not difficult to imagine a case where it would be essential for employers embarking for example on a new technical process to invite existing employees to agree to some reasonable restriction on their use of the knowledge they acquire of the new technique ; and where it would be essential for the employer to terminate , by due notice , the services of an employee who was unwilling to accept such a restriction . |
| 4 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 5 | Ask voters to say what comes to mind when they think of the Labour Party and a large proportion mention , ‘ the unions ’ , ‘ strikes ’ , ‘ the winter of discontent ’ , and ‘ the three-day week ’ , even though this last event occurred under Mr Heath . |
| 6 | EVER wondered what sounds influence our local bands , or what they think of the national and local music scenes ? |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman should ask anybody in and around Nottingham whether they approve of the famous leaf stem statue , which costs £38,000 , the coloured blobs under one of the car parks , which cost £28,000 , or the provision of a day centre for the winos who are driving everybody mad , which cost £160,000 . |
| 8 | They clearly have social , economic and political ramifications and affect man 's relationship with his fellow man : all men are brothers because they partake of the same reality and share the same Ātman . |
| 9 | In section 1.6.1 a major difference in the way they conceive of the fundamental forces that generate these changes at the international level was identified . |