Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 2 | The geological availability of these is used by geographers and historians as a strong argument for why settlements are sited near them when engaged in mining them , or when a particular industry which uses them as a raw material has to be nearby . |
| 3 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 4 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 5 | Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) . |
| 6 | Other satellites are in a near-polar orbit which takes them over the Arctic and Antarctic regions . |
| 7 | These dolphins are oceanic travellers , with a migration route Of thousands of kilometres which takes them past the southern coastline of Japan on both legs of their annual migration . |
| 8 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 9 | For many black people , this is the only form of protest open to them in a society which is racist and discriminatory and which consigns them to the lowest positions in the class structure . |
| 10 | During this migration they receive signals from the surrounding tissues which directs them along the appropriate developmental pathway . |
| 11 | After the court refused a stay , lawyers for the investors agreed to a settlement which puts them on an equal footing with other unsecured L&H creditors . |
| 12 | Over the two games , Spartak were well worth their victory which puts them into the European Cup Winners Cup quarter-finals . |
| 13 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 14 | They then fall on to a conveyor belt which tips them into a wooden box . |
| 15 | Under the system of primogeniture it will be known from childhood that one sibling will be privileged over all the rest ; by contrast partible inheritance requires a much greater degree of co-operation between siblings in adult life , especially if they inherit land or a firm which provides them with a common livelihood . |
| 16 | They are then sent to the Embassy maintained in the state of destination which conveys them to the External Affairs Ministry of that state , which will pass them over to its Ministry of Justice to be sent down to the appropriate local agency for delivery to the addressee . |
| 17 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
| 18 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 19 | Here they run across wayward convent schoolgirl Kim , Holly Marie Combs , who directs them to the deserted cafe of Kate , an enigmatic Karen Sillas . |
| 20 | So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting . |
| 21 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 22 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 23 | She nourishes them with a special fluid which exudes from a nipple on the wall of the pouch in which her larva lies . |
| 24 | When parents criticize or disapprove of what their children do ( when unacceptable ) , the fact that their offspring love and respect them puts them on the same side as their parents ; it means that they will take what is being said seriously , and will emulate them by beginning to criticize their bad behaviour themselves ! |
| 25 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 26 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 27 | If I continue then with some introductory remarks erm on policy H one a and one A , perhaps that would set the scene er for the discussion , then Mr will very briefly erm look at the differences as he sees them between the two sets erm of projections . |
| 28 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 29 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 30 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |