Example sentences of "the [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 2 | It was only the fact that , as Dorothy said , they believed that ‘ wealth entails social responsibility ’ , that made the activities they funded the target of six decades of jeers and sneers . |
| 3 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 4 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |
| 5 | This analyses the kind of decisions to be made in an organisation , and the activities they affect . |
| 6 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 7 | Teaching needs to be discussed in a much more rounded and comprehensive way , with far less emphasis on surface aspects like display and resources ; far more emphasis should be placed on the character of the minute-to-minute encounters which children have with teachers and each other , on the precise nature and purposes of the tasks they are given and The activities they undertake , and on the relationship of these and other aspects of the practice of teaching to learning . |
| 8 | Together , they underpin rather than oversee the disciplines they serve , and reliance upon them can be so complete that procedures simply can not be carried out without their aid . |
| 9 | Obviously , the first requirement in developing students ' critical abilities is to get them immersed in the disciplines they are studying , and bring them to appreciate and to respect the internal criteria of evaluation — the kinds of evidence , criteria and values that are particular to each discipline . |
| 10 | And as anurans , with their soft vulnerable bodies , are much sought after as food , they need all the defences they can muster . |
| 11 | According to Olson , it was not the beliefs of the eighteenth century essayists that led to changes in the conception of language and rationality , an assertion that could be tested against the historical evidence , but the forms they used , the alphabet and the essay . |
| 12 | What I am interested in is not the forms they construct , but how they construct them ; I am concerned with identifying the graphological constants . |
| 13 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 14 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 15 | But the BHS say the hats they recommended , which comply with a British standard , are safe ; a harness hat with a chin strap and a jockey skull hat . |
| 16 | Blessed are the peacemakers they should be called God 's children . |
| 17 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 18 | The trade unions were particularly effective at publicising the difficulties some private contractors encountered in fulfilling the contracts they had accepted ( Ascher 1987:224 ) . |
| 19 | No matter how much care the drafter puts into the preparation of a set of standard terms , the terms are wholly useless unless they are effectively incorporated into the contracts they are intended to govern . |
| 20 | Rule-following is the typical mode of action by which the structure of the content of the rule is reproduced in the actions of the people , though we may have to explain their aims or the acts they intend , in other ways . |
| 21 | Even though international organisations , as international persons , may be held liable under international law for the acts they perform , this can not exclude the secondary liability of the Member States themselves . |
| 22 | He accepted that the complainants were under no misapprehension about the nature of the acts they had engaged in . |
| 23 | Plans and purposes of schools and teachers may differ from those of ministries and the experts they employ — and may indeed be more realistic . |
| 24 | During the training programme Fellows are encouraged to question the experts they meet ‘ to be excited by the excellent and disturbed by the mediocre ’ . |
| 25 | Everyone did their own labelling. , As a result of this approach , a strong camaraderie developed between the Roddicks and the franchisees they selected to help spread their business philosophy . |
| 26 | We have done little to consider how new members entering the religious life nowadays can internalize the attitudes they attempted to represent . |
| 27 | Both the external images of apartness and the usefulness of the attitudes they represented were considered questionable . |
| 28 | For feminists , one interesting implication of the idea that Trudgill puts forward , and of his findings , is that gender allegiance seems to be at least as powerful for men ( in the attitudes they express , if not in their behaviour ) as class allegiance . |
| 29 | Surridge 's ebullience and enthusiasm continued to flow , his force of personality holding together some pretty strong-willed characters in his XI , and the crowds they attracted to The oval were often huge . |
| 30 | Similarly , getting too close could frighten the animal , although once they are used to the crowds they can regard the bars or the cage or the walls of the enclosure as protection . |