Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The songs of ancient times remind them of what they lost and there is a savage hatred in their hearts towards the Dark Elves of Naggaroth . |
| 2 | Conversely , Orientals and Africans rarely mutilate their pets for cosmetic purposes , but the trimming of puppies ears of certain breeds to make them stand erect or the breaking and subsequent resetting of the tails of American saddle-bred horses is , or was until very recently , a common practice in American dog and horse-show circles . |
| 3 | It seems that some designers of upright cookers think they can get away with dowdy styling and primitive features . |
| 4 | The canonising of many of these into ‘ sainthood ’ , and its corresponding condition within non-Christian religions puts them temporarily into a surrogate position relative to the Created God , which is similar to that into which Jesus Christ may be put . |
| 5 | The passenger committee , who throughout the crisis had been sending telegrams to prominent Americans asking them to intercede , could think of no one else to contact . |
| 6 | Just as the concentration on individual managers isolates them from their proper context and makes them almost personally responsible for local policy variations , so the concentration on the processes of local politics isolated these from other sets of socio-economic processes . |
| 7 | The report recommends the establishment of global gene banks , together with increased aid to southern countries to help them protect their genetic resources . |
| 8 | It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management . |
| 9 | India 's Environment Minister , Kamal Nath , said that he was dissatisfied with the conditions governing aid to developing nations to help them produce alternatives to chlorofluorocarbons . |
| 10 | Some implements are set with the heads at different angles to make them easier to manoeuvre with one hand . |
| 11 | To defuse British anger , the hardline leader of the Bosnian Serbs , Radovan Karadzic , said he would agree to UN monitoring of Serbian planes to prove they were not involved . |
| 12 | Michael Wheeler , eight , and his sister Alice , five , take advantage of personal stereos to help them appreciate Liverpool Museum 's fabulous collection of European musical instruments . |
| 13 | Yeah , what kind of good points do they make ? |
| 14 | The Commission , the Spanish Government and the applicants in the main proceedings in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) argue , however , that even though , formally , those requirements apply in the same way to nationals , they are in reality discriminatory as regards both their objectives and their effects , since the very great majority of British citizens fulfil them automatically . |
| 15 | The fine analysis of the DH sites upstream of the Ea gene has been hampered by the presence of repetitive/unstable sequences making them difficult to subclone , and thereby reduce the upstream regions to an absolute minimum as in the β-Globin LCR studies ( 14 ) . |
| 16 | We are only able to present the figures for 1987 in Table 12.1 because the House of Commons Social Security Committee commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies to calculate them . |
| 17 | Derek Jameson notably failed to prove that the writers of the BBC satirical programme " Week Ending " were dishonest in portraying him as stupid and lubricious : his record as editor of down-market newspapers allowed them to describe his editorial policy as being " all the nudes fit to print and all the news printed to fit . " |
| 18 | The incommodiousness of Scotch windows keeps them very closely shut … even in houses well built and elegantly furnished , a stranger may be sometimes forgiven if he allows himself to wish for fresher air . ’ |
| 19 | Yoshida considered that there was a danger that radical and ultra-nationalistic activities would increase in Japan and said that his Government was already considering the possibility of establishing a Committee of Un-Japanese Activities to combat them . |
| 20 | Had the advent of atomic weapons invalidated them ; did they need re-definition ; and what priority should be accorded to each of them ? |
| 21 | During this period , approximately 10 000 to 9 000 years ago , the whole of the Fenland was a basin of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks with a varying thickness of glacial deposits covering them . |
| 22 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 23 | A range of new looks to dazzle 'em ! |
| 24 | Their forced accommodation to the existence of a wide range of non-genetic categories saved them from being solely associated with such a negative approach . |
| 25 | Certain collections Mickey Mouse ephemera or period memorabilia need a range of different treatments to display them to their best advantage : dot pictures and plaques round the wall , arrange toys and crockery on shelves , lay rugs on the floor . |
| 26 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 27 | A LEADING independent accountant has warned funeral directors against misleading claims encouraging them to take advantage of a tax loophole which could see them reclaiming up to 7,200 per year in VAT . |
| 28 | We have already pointed out that clarinets in unison with high trumpets give them increased roundness of tone and certainty of attack . |
| 29 | ‘ Too soft you are , girl , ’ Win Morgan broke her bread into small pieces soaking them in the soup , ‘ ca n't be responsible for the whole neighbourhood , can you ? |
| 30 | The digestive system of the cat is less successful in this respect and often fails to break down the dangerous elements in ingested substances to make them harmless . |