Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bottle 1:2:6 3 Dozn & 8 Bottles porter 16:0 Cold drams 2:0 Glasses broke 10 @ 6d. each 5:0 1779 " Renews the order on the Committee respecting the ffees of dressing fflax & they to report to the next meeting . " |
| 2 | Certainly , we deplore the practice of aborting fetuses because they have gastroschisis or isolated tracheo-oesophageal fistulla or oesophageal atresia . |
| 3 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 4 | And Pitt-Rivers was the first civil servant given the difficult job of persuading landowners that they ought to stop dealing with their property as they thought fit and hand it over to the control of a state agency . |
| 5 | How can the limiting of regulation 72 be justified by a Department which has the declared aim of targeting benefits where they are most needed ? |
| 6 | The Commission 's aim of reskilling workers before they become unemployed , and smoothing their transition into alternative employment is also objected to by the UK Government , as it is seen as industrial policy in disguise . |
| 7 | Mothers are able to discriminate different kinds of crying pattern and they typically interpret crying in terms of needs and emotional state . |
| 8 | This is where the skills of skimming a text to gain a general impression , and scanning to glean specific points , are very useful , and it is at this point within the process of finding information that they would perhaps most effectively be taught . |
| 9 | 1 The public as a whole had fallen victim to the revolution of rising expectations and they displayed a lack of " realism " as to the constraints that bore on the capacity of governments to provide ever more . |
| 10 | The incident seems to have been settled , but remains a warning to writers of climbing guides that they are n't above the law of libel . |
| 11 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 12 | But you see they 're spending a lot of the time you know , on developing ways of repairing roads after they 've been in them . |
| 13 | They 've got certain channels and ways of doing things and they 're loathe to venture outside of them . |
| 14 | People get set into certain ways of doing things and they do n't evaluate whether its working or not . |
| 15 | Page description languages are often though of as being the means of outputting information but they can just as easily be used as a method of receiving it as well . |
| 16 | The government 's annual report on the production costs of electricity in France has confirmed that nuclear-powered stations are the most cost-effective means of producing electricity provided they operate for at least 6,000 hours per year . |
| 17 | Conceptual clarification and reordering are , however , hardly sufficient as means of controlling force but they may be a necessary prerequisite for attaining this objective . |
| 18 | so I 'm in favour of leaving things as they are Chairman , er I think you , you , you 've done enough , you 've caused enough trouble already ! |
| 19 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 20 | There is no way of monitoring arms once they are sold , although I believe Contraves when it says that it would have to fit the latest equipment to any ship , and would not fit Argentinian ships . |
| 21 | It could be they have got out of the way of doing things that they used to enjoy . |
| 22 | Two decades earlier Louis XIV had put it more succinctly : " Nothing happens in the world which does not come under the cognizance of … a good ambassador " , while in the early eighteenth century a leading international lawyer wrote flatly of resident diplomats that " it is precisely for the purpose of getting information that they are maintained in the courts of friendly powers " . |
| 23 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |
| 24 | The simplest form of reading is often thought to be children ‘ looking at pictures ’ , but children need to bring a number of skills to the task of reading picture-books if they are to read the pictures with understanding . |
| 25 | MEMBERS of company pension schemes are to be given special guidance notes in the face of mounting concerns that they are being badly advised to transfer into private personal pension plans . |