Example sentences of "[noun] of they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's also another problem with land reform in I ca n't really see how they could implement land reform without reverting to similar sorts of they used in which is defining class distinctions and the chaos that that causes and the problems it causes erm it is almost as if , if you go back to erm settling of accounts |
| 2 | The script of They Met in the Dark ( 1946 ) , in which James Mason is a discharged sea captain hunting down those who delivered fake orders to his ship , is a textureless and muddled affair . |
| 3 | Do you give her a little bit of they 're |
| 4 | Yeah , I mean , as long as it , as long as it kind of they know that it might change slightly after eleven . |
| 5 | It should be noted that the Board may withhold or reduce compensation of they consider that the applicant has not taken all reasonable steps to inform the police without delay . |
| 6 | Busy mothers ma be particularly glad of an opportunity to listen at home of they find themselves tied to the house . |
| 7 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 8 | Unless they are pre-mensile eyes you know , they sort of they come out , sort of go down together and be just above the actual eyelid . |
| 9 | of a sort of they call one of the women 's essential oils er cos I suppose they think rose was a woman really do n't they . |
| 10 | They sort of they tie together and you 'll be using some equations and next time we 'll give you som we 'll have a look at graphs again just a quick |
| 11 | Right they 're the sort of they 're the go they 're good titles . |
| 12 | Or if sort of they started they 'd , they 'd always have them in hospital and , and finish it off properly . |
| 13 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |
| 14 | situation they sort of they sit back they think about and assimilate it . |
| 15 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 16 | You know they were sort of they were cheap stalls and and the people who came were the bargain hunters . |
| 17 | Sort of they look all to big for me . |
| 18 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 19 | And the , there 's a crying need for the for nurses in the hospitals and wards and the , and they sort of they 're cutting down you know , on the hospital programme closing wards er , not employing nurses when they need them you know , and they 're trying to get |
| 20 | I would imagine they sort of they could n't find the place |
| 21 | all working in their own little houses sort of they looked liked houses but in fact they were little workshops |
| 22 | This became clear when , in an attempt to investigate further the nature of the personal pronoun constraint on the non-standard concord rule , all occurrences of they as subject in the speech of 12 speakers were collected ( N=310 ) , from which only one example was discovered of a singular verb : |
| 23 | This is , this notion of they 're all being woven together . |
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| 25 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 26 | Er , the purpose of this sort of research is to understand the context of meaning in people 's minds wi with , in terms of they do . |
| 27 | Round in Crescent and er the people make allowances often they make announcements in the ground of they 're blocking somebody 's entrance and will they go and move the cars out and |
| 28 | It is possible to argue that the single occurrence of they in the data with a singular verb is accidental ( a ‘ performance error ’ ) but equally possible to claim that the non-occurrence of you , we and these with a singular verb is the consequence of an accidental gap in the corpus ; the line of reasoning characteristic of generative grammar is of little help to us here in choosing between these alternatives . |
| 29 | It is evident from this quotation that the grammarians were mainly motivated not by considerations of linguistic naturalness or logic ( for example , the clash of singular and plural implicit in the use of they ; and as Bodine points out , why in any case is number concord more important than gender concord ? ) but quite explicitly by sexism . |
| 30 | And if you have any special skills or knowledge that can be made use of they would be more than welcome . |