Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] they [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 2 | They clearly have social , economic and political ramifications and affect man 's relationship with his fellow man : all men are brothers because they partake of the same reality and share the same Ātman . |
| 3 | Ask voters to say what comes to mind when they think of the Labour Party and a large proportion mention , ‘ the unions ’ , ‘ strikes ’ , ‘ the winter of discontent ’ , and ‘ the three-day week ’ , even though this last event occurred under Mr Heath . |
| 4 | He showed the notarised notebooks of April 1986 demonstrating the range of materials , including not just palladium but several other metals , that was being used two and a half years before they learned of the work by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 5 | We went about a mile before they tired of the effort involved , and I did n't mean to go much further in any case because according to the map I had in my pocket we were by then in about the centre of the western spur of the Quillersedge woods . |
| 6 | Membership of an economic community requires the acceptance of a financial obligation to fund the objectives of the organisation whether they consist of the limited objectives of a regional trading group , or the more extensive objectives of an economic union . |
| 7 | The group least represented in proportion to its population , Sinhalese Buddhists , accounted for an even smaller proportion of sergeants than they did of the force as a whole . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman should ask anybody in and around Nottingham whether they approve of the famous leaf stem statue , which costs £38,000 , the coloured blobs under one of the car parks , which cost £28,000 , or the provision of a day centre for the winos who are driving everybody mad , which cost £160,000 . |
| 9 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |
| 10 | He was a shadowy figure from the past whose name was scarcely ever mentioned except on those rare occasions when they spoke of the accident , that terrible accident that had claimed the lives of him and her mother when Harriet was only four years old . |
| 11 | Third , they would have the same percentage — 55.6 — of the list votes as they did of the actual constituency votes . |