Example sentences of "they [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 2 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 3 | Still , it was them or a book . |
| 4 | In presenting the main commentary , remember that readers will either have the original table before them or a number of tabular extracts presented by you to clarify points of interest . |
| 5 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 6 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 7 | It was obvious that the air raid siren had never been much more to them than a bore . |
| 8 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 9 | When I hear people attacking Arthur Scargill , militancy etc , I remind them that a militant is only a moderate who has learned to stand up and fight back . |
| 10 | She told them that a man had knocked on the door of her home in Hereford claiming to be from the council . |
| 11 | Sapt had told them that a friend of the King 's was a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda and that the King needed their help . |
| 12 | The spokesmen were asked to thank the men , but to tell them that a shutdown which destroyed the grid would be too disastrous for the country . |
| 13 | This could occur where someone has a lien over the goods , i.e. a right to retain possession of them until a debt is paid . |
| 14 | He mumbled words and phrases from the song quietly enough for the noise to drown them until a man returned to his side and stopped . |
| 15 | People on legal aid will only be able to get the most inexperienced lawyers to work for them if a plan to set fixed hourly rates goes ahead , the Law Society warns . |
| 16 | A new song , ‘ Pussy Cat Meow ’ , celebrates them and a dream Kier had a long time ago . |
| 17 | As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out . |
| 18 | unclear lot cleaner , I got ten shillings from them and a shilling from the next door for cleaning their windowsill every morning . |
| 19 | More runners converged on them and a chase ensued . |
| 20 | In cases where a papilla arises on two adjacent areas the m is split into 2n 's with a comma between them and a linking bar above them . |
| 21 | The small snag is that it costs considerably more than the purchase price to buy a licence to use them and a licence is required for each computer . |
| 22 | The police were trying to interview them and a TV reporter was talking into a camera , his face lit with a bright light . |
| 23 | As far as Wales are concerned , the feeling afterwards was a sense of relief for being able to throw back at the French everything their opponents threw at them and a mood of confidence that their hard work is slowly paying dividends . |
| 24 | My home is a shrine to them and a talking point for my friends , who think I 'm completely nuts . |
| 25 | By his statement of claim , the plaintiff alleged that on July 6 , 1932 , the defendants by their solicitor , a Mr. Kennard , verbally agreed with him that , if he would on July 7 , 1932 , pay the £208 in cash into a bank at Eastbourne for the credit of the solicitor 's firm at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , that payment would satisfy all sums that he owed them and a bankruptcy notice which they had issued in respect of part of the debt would not be served on him . |
| 26 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 27 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 28 | Initially our agents had no idea of who he was , but as I 'm sure you know it 's standard procedure to take photographs , and as soon as we compared them and a descrip-tion with our files , we were in no doubt as to who he was . ’ |
| 29 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 30 | They occupy a cove with the sea and steep cliffs behind them and a sailing boat anchored to the right . |