Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Informally put , in the case of an oligopolistic market this can be achieved by an agreement which specifies that the punishing firms choose outputs or prices which yield them higher profit than at the collusive allocation , so that they would actually gain in the punishment phase . |
| 2 | If firms agree to set outputs or prices which give them higher profits than those they would earn in a one-shot NE , and one of them reneges on this agreement , then in the following period(s) punitive actions can be undertaken , for example a price war , to wipe out the gains from the deviation . |
| 3 | Erm oh there were a thousand and one things I I ca n't really erm you know they they were always they were at it hammer and tongs you know they had er s what would be called something similar to a steam hammer and you know . |
| 4 | Numbers were quickly drawn and the lucky winners came forward to collect their prize from the manufacturers and dealers who donated them . |
| 5 | The ending reminds us that the boys are really just little boys who are childish , not the animals and cannibals we thought they were . |
| 6 | It would remind them that young men who carry knives and youngsters who take them to school may lose their temper and find that one stab is enough to kill a school mate or a police officer . |
| 7 | MPs are elected to represent the people , not companies and organisations who pay them . |
| 8 | That is fundamental to the needs of our economy in the years ahead ; fundamental to the prospects for unemployed people ; and fundamental also to the creation of opportunities for our people not only to obtain work , to have and to hold down a job , but to obtain work and jobs which give them satisfaction , which are truly rewarding and which enable them to fulfil their potential to the greatest possible extent . |
| 9 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 10 | They have skills and qualities which make them highly valuable and which most organizations regard as being in short supply . |
| 11 | Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities . |
| 12 | Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities . |
| 13 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 14 | They respond with their age-old weapons — by trying to order their daughters-in-law about , taking away their jewellery , making their lives impossible with hundreds of petty rules , forcing sons and daughters who oppose them into arranged marriages , and , more than anything else , trying to get hold of every pay packet which is brought home . |
| 15 | REVOLUTION , literature and love , and the roads and side-roads which join them together , are concerns which join together the Czech writers Milan Kundera and Ivan Klima , whose name is used by Kundera for the uxorious philanderer of his novel The Farewell Party . |
| 16 | They were more akin to the machine politicians we know today than to the noble coalition builders and power-brokers who preceded them . |
| 17 | The stone houses and tenements which replaced them , however , often continued to sport timber galleries above the street . |
| 18 | It is not ‘ the dull compulsion of the labour market ’ which disciplines the worker through the brute necessities of basic subsistence , but the more developed range of needs and commitments which trap them in , what Blackburn and Mann call , ‘ the life cycle squeeze ’ ( ibid. , p. 108 ) . |
| 19 | From their experiences children build up a set of explanations and beliefs which enable them to make sense of what happens around them . |
| 20 | I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss . |
| 21 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
| 22 | Realist science is a means of conceptual discovery based on the movement at any given level of analysis , from manifest phenomena to knowledge of the structures and mechanisms which generate them … . |
| 23 | The police are now investigating and already trading standards officers have been contacted by half a dozen tenants and landlords who believe they 've lost out |
| 24 | Closer to home , in their statement of educational principles , for example , a group of teachers from Wigan included the following : ‘ Education has the responsibility of operating within a democratic system ; of respecting and nurturing democratic principles ; of being open to change by democratic process ; and , perhaps , most importantly , of encouraging within the young those qualities and skills which enable them to participate in a democracy and ultimately to develop or change it ’ ( Department of Education and Science , 1983 , p. 27 ) . |
| 25 | We found the taxi driver who took him and the girl to the station and witnesses who saw them get on the train . |
| 26 | As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity . |
| 27 | Nor is it due to black people 's possession of special gifts or talents which equip them more satisfactorily for certain sporting events . |
| 28 | What people think of the media in general and each medium in particular and the role or roles they perceive them to play in their lives and in society are important preliminary considerations which have to be studied . |
| 29 | Bugs and men who study them have inspired great literature and pages and pages of nonsense But even the finest fiction has rarely improved on real life |
| 30 | Sir James paid no heed , leading his small party along the quayside , ordering people aside and ignoring the oaths and catcalls which followed them . |