Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 20 had been brought out to absorb the quantities of low-speed Vikings they were getting . |
| 2 | While TNCs are certainly to be found in a wide variety of economic sectors they share the same basic function of capital accumulation on a global scale , and the same consistent character of having to work out global strategies to ensure their continued growth . |
| 3 | Some are elected because of their independent standing in the party and because of specific positions they have adopted on certain issues . |
| 4 | Languages such as the above are called tone languages ; although to most speakers of European languages they may seem strange and exotic , such languages are in fact spoken by a very large proportion of the world 's population . |
| 5 | Randall and Brearley made a good start , Gower and Willey pressed on well , and at the end of fifty overs they were on 211 . |
| 6 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 7 | The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing . |
| 8 | Seen through the disapproving eyes of respectable citizens they were nothing but a disorderly and disorganized rabble , dropouts from the social ladder . |
| 9 | With the addition of dry filters they can be used in the conventional vacuum cleaner role with the particular feature that they can cope with much larger debris . |
| 10 | Since volcanoes composed of similar rock types are also found in a range of climatic environments they also provide the opportunity to compare the effects of climate on the rate and nature of denudation . |
| 11 | I 've got a feeling for the number of empty sites they must have hammered the rents or the rates or something . |
| 12 | The resolution of animals with large eyes is limited by the number of light receptors they have , and how closely these are packed together . |
| 13 | But , according to trading standards officers , shops can charge what they like for something and if they choose to recoup the cost of making curtains by charging more for the cost of raw materials they use , then they 're entitled to do this . |
| 14 | She said oh no she says your name gone in and you 've er won a weekend in Wales I think , oh what a load of old bollocks they 're coming out with here . |
| 15 | The number of different visitors they were reported to have had during the last twelve months averaged 5.0 . |
| 16 | When Izzie came out , hearing voices , she found them drawing tally marks in the dust , counting up the number of different roles they could play between them . |
| 17 | While Danzigers were most definitely on the sharp end of Polish-German relations they were also historically and personally in a unique position to give the lie to Nazi manipulation and simplification . |
| 18 | The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on . |
| 19 | It is sometimes argued that the additional costs of disability are offset , to some extent , by the more limited range of social activities they can engage in , which produces cost savings for them . |
| 20 | The party of low taxes , the party of high taxes they failed on that . |
| 21 | I do n't think they 'll concede the sort of easy goals they have allowed in past World Cups . ’ |
| 22 | In the hierarchy of contemporary morals they appeared wholly commendable . |
| 23 | And I 've no criticism of Global investments they may well be the best for you . |
| 24 | Yesterday 's 9p drop to 370p took the shares to an 18-month low ahead of the promised interim announcement on the dispute between the tunnel developer and its contractors over the £800m of extra payments they are claiming . |
| 25 | Although the females ' ranges are smaller than those of individual males they overlap those of several of them and may therefore turn up in more than one male community ; females in oestrus range widely , consorting with a male for a few days . |
| 26 | In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another . |
| 27 | These wo n't damage you hair at all : in fact because they contain lots of conditioning agents they can make it much more shiny and manageable . |
| 28 | The success of the auctions is certain to convince many building societies that this may be one of the best ways to unload the vast numbers of repossessed properties they hold . |
| 29 | The extent to which central training staff of local authorities were seen by libraries to be involved in their training was examined , and the provision of central courses they offered was also looked at ( in Chapter 5 ) , leading to the conclusion that central training provision reflects the overall policy of , and general commitment to training of the parent authority , and thus is likely to coincide with existence of other resources . |
| 30 | In previous centuries needs were recognized reluctantly , if at all , when social problems were of such proportions they could no longer be ignored . |