Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The locks the Minoans fitted to their doors were little more than wooden bolts with pegs to hold them in place . |
| 2 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |
| 3 | Some guys with whoppers use them like sink plungers , as if all a girl needs is filling up . ’ |
| 4 | Several different facts about cuckoos fit them to their parasitic way of life . |
| 5 | In the early 1900s buyers of firms guessed they could raise cash flows through economies of scale and by limiting competition . |
| 6 | If they were landowners , they had insufficient capital , if they were tenants the local practice of yearly verbal agreements with landlords offered them little security for a return on any considerable investment . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , both sides were bringing up more and more artillery pieces and vast numbers of shells to feed them : the pattern of Verdun was repeating itself . |
| 8 | Shareholders will be offered the alternative of buying six new shares for every four held , at a price still to be set , or of taking three shares and three bonds with warrants making them convertible into shares at a later date . |
| 9 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 10 | Most deep tapes have two or three rows of pockets making them adjustable for use with all types of track or pole . |
| 11 | Enormous mossy roofs of houses awaited them , and stables , sheepfolds , barns . |
| 12 | However , it should be stressed that different types of organizations will require differing types of budgets to enable them to function effectively . |
| 13 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 14 | It advises the reader not to leave their bedroom window at night because all sorts of pitfalls await them ; crocodiles , ghosts , monsters . |
| 15 | If they get there the men plot all kinds of strategies to get them out of such posts . |
| 16 | The figs themselves are hardly bigger than acorns , but there are huge quantities of them and all kinds of animals find them irresistible . |
| 17 | However , it was a shaky start for the Lions today with four sparkling tries from threequarters helping them to salvage a victory . |
| 18 | By the end of September 1990 , the network of IDS Advisers on Enterprise and Education had undertaken a cumulative total of 5,534 visits to employers to persuade them to offer work experience to school pupils and appropriate short-term placements for teachers . |
| 19 | She recognizes cultural and race differences in these patterns , and acknowledges the political limits of programmes to change them . |
| 20 | The Department of Transport estimates that before belts were compulsory , only about a third of people in the front seats of cars wore them . |
| 21 | The Council will also be producing in-service materials for teachers to help them cope with the changes and , provided this is prepared and delivered in close collaboration with local education authorities , as is the stated intention , this should be very helpful provided the Council avoids being prescriptive about teaching style . |
| 22 | Trim tops of cakes to level them . |
| 23 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 24 | For example , in one case the government sought an interim injunction to restrain a drug company from disobeying a statutory order regulating the price it could charge the NHS for its drugs ; and in a recent series of cases local authorities have sought interim injunctions against traders to restrain them from opening their businesses on Sunday in breach of Sunday trading laws . |
| 25 | Some people say certain responses in others make them see red and they are guaranteed to be upset , even though for the sake of peace they may repress their anger or hurt . |
| 26 | Ethnology documents other uses of cowries associating them with sight . |
| 27 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 28 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 29 | Houses have been bought by local builders with plans to restore them , though in many such cases very little work is actually done . |
| 30 | Speakers at the conference also criticized the Department of the Environment for not providing local authorities with funds to enable them to track down offenders . |