Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun sg] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were trotting along a path on the side of a hill when they detected a man walking below them . |
| 2 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |
| 3 | Volcanic bombs become partially streamlined and rounded as they are thrown through the air or pass rapidly through the magma in the neck of a volcano when they are violently erupted . |
| 4 | If you get in the wrong part of a ruck and they think you are stopping them getting the ball , you get raked . |
| 5 | The growth of slimming clubs is a reminder that many people find it helpful to lose weight if they 're part of a group where they can swap stories and share experiences — but slimming clubs do n't necessarily work for everyone . |
| 6 | Such ancillary restrictions will be treated as part and parcel of a concentration where they are ‘ directly related and necessary to the implementation of the concentration ’ . |
| 7 | You know , so that , that 's a bit of a nightmare and they erm , sort of never tell their children off , so you know , you 're s some ghastly little child can be floating your CDs in the bath |
| 8 | So I think her mother 's gon na be in for a bit of a shock because they all think that they 're gon na get married so quick , I think she just wanted to get that ring on her finger so she can reap the ackers and I think she 's gon na do a runner . |
| 9 | Probably because it is a bit of a risk but they know full well what their doing , the rules and regulations |
| 10 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 11 | At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made . |
| 12 | Once Dandelion struck the smell of a stoat and they all joined him , whispering and sniffing over the ground . |
| 13 | In some cases , pupils are given the beginning or ending of a story and they have to complete the rest of the story in their own words . |
| 14 | Money is made available to training and enterprise councils in return for their performance in pursuance of a contract that they make with me . |
| 15 | Hence they will not substitute their views as to the proper management of a company but they are prepared to articulate standards of review which are designed to catch self-dealing on the part of managers . |
| 16 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |
| 17 | He 's a promising specimen of a star till they find the needle up his elbow . |
| 18 | So strong was the feeling that several times she thought she caught the tail-end of a movement as they passed by several blackened stumps and she turned sharply , expecting to see something leering evilly at them , but there was nothing . |
| 19 | They are intended for those who like to probe into the whys and wherefores of things or who like to assess fully the credentials of a subject before they give it serious consideration . |
| 20 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 21 | And many had their skulls smashed when riding on top of a carriage because they ‘ came into collision with a bridge ’ . |
| 22 | The essence of the idea of ‘ measurement focus ’ is , to put it straightforwardly , that by adopting the ‘ flow of financial resources ’ a governmental organization can adopt ‘ accrual accounting ’ in its operating statement ( that is , it can ‘ recognize the effects of transactions or events on the resources of an entity when they take place , regardless of when cash is received or paid ’ ) but does not have to charge depreciation . |
| 23 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 24 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 25 | They may know more than they realize , for it may be only on the occasion of a question that they see or realize applications and utilities of writings with which they are perfectly familiar . |
| 26 | As solid insertions into the very hot gas , probes can significantly alter the local properties of a plasma that they are supposed to be measuring . |
| 27 | Some member States may protest against actions of an organisation that they claim to be outside its powers as , for example , did France and the Soviet Union to the establishment of UNEF and ONUC . |
| 28 | They could adopt the title of a town if they wished ( LGBC 1973 ) . |
| 29 | EVERTON must change the habit of a lifetime if they are to arrest the current slide this weekend with a victory at Nottingham Forest , writes Ken Rogers . |
| 30 | Biological filters operate outside the pool , usually at the summit of a waterfall where they can be suitably hidden — water from the pool being pumped through the filter and allowed to discharge into the waterfall . |