Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minor or the trace constituents then are present in concentrations less than one part per million they obviously count for less than point one percent of the total salts They are useful as chemical tracers of particular waters . |
| 2 | At any moment the Roman army could arrive at the narrow strait which separated their holy island from the mainland of north Wales , and they had no protection , except the super-natural powers they felt they could command . |
| 3 | But his career-defining Working ( 1970 ) was a plenteous ethnography : white-and blue-collar workers ventilated their discontent with the monotony of their jobs and the narrow satisfactions they offered . |
| 4 | Like everyone else , teachers may be unaware of the prejudiced views they hold and admitting their prejudice can be a very painful process . |
| 5 | The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! ) |
| 6 | The immense summer heat of the Asian deserts , the low pressures they generate above them , the consequently varying winds — all these features dominate the weather of the western Pacific ( and much more so in the northern hemisphere , where the ocean is overshadowed by two immense land masses , compared with the relatively landless margins south of the equator ) . |
| 7 | Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why , and also the possible effects they may have . |
| 8 | Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why , and also the possible effects they may have . |
| 9 | Office , status , and the possible roles they confer are highly culture variable and may need general discussion with students . |
| 10 | Throughout , the legislators concerned will be subject to a great deal of explicit lobbying , and will be aware of the political debts they are expected to settle through the budget , as well as the importance that their decisions may have for their own political futures . |
| 11 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 12 | The testers , used to assessing corporate managers , were unnerved by the odd readings they got from an entrepreneur . |
| 13 | All the odd jobs they 've sent to me and my stock-in-trade was special-purpose items or customers ' requirements . |
| 14 | From there they were accustomed to having something like a bird's-eye view , seeing their husbands and the other male members of their families not as the tall figures they were familiar with and on whom they relied but as the busy little children they often privately felt them to be . |
| 15 | In the bulldozed plots they were lowest of all , because the topsoil had been removed . |
| 16 | It concerned a smuggling gang who had previously used a minibus to bring the drugs from Morocco , but because of increased activity by the Spanish Customs they decided to operate a seaborne campaign using a yacht called Cornish Lady . |
| 17 | If they stay in the lower divisions they 'll have to eliminate seating in seven years time . |
| 18 | But er I do n't really remember erm people going out to work much ex except , I suppose you 'd call them the lower classes , or not really the working classes because er , but the lower classes they would take in washing . |
| 19 | Lone mothers in other studies have described how their greater control of resources can offset the lower incomes they are able to secure for their families ( Evason , 1980 ; Graham , 1987b ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 21 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 22 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 23 | If the loose ferrets make contact with the wounded rabbits they become preoccupied , stay where they are and do not resurface . |
| 24 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
| 25 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
| 26 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |
| 27 | This limited the economic incentives they were prepared to provide . |
| 28 | If all went well with the Air Services package agreed in June 1992 , EEC airlines would be able to fly between whatever airports in different countries within the Community they chose ( subject only to complying with safety and noise standards and assuming the availability of ground and air space ) and charging the economic fares they chose . |
| 29 | The human costs both of the wars themselves and the economic crises they have caused have been enormous , and the setbacks to programmes of educational and social development severe . |
| 30 | Some auctioneers will exchange items if they prove to be the wrong colour , design or size , but this is entirely at their discretion , and much will depend on the specific instructions they have received from the vendor . |