Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] they [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 2 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 3 | Sir Harold left his collection to the Corporation of the City of London , but rather than include them in the Guildhall Art Gallery , he left instructions that , due to the fact that he believed his pictures looked best in domestic surroundings , the pictures be installed in the Lord Mayor 's residence , where , unfortunately , they will mostly be inaccessible to the public . |
| 4 | And Northumberland had chosen , rather than pursue them with a force then quite inadequate , to gather his and his sons ' levies and wait for the marauders to return . |
| 5 | I would also like to add that the small meeting room which is off the corridor , opposite the program office , is ava available for you to er relax during the lunch break , and eat your sandwiches in there , rather than bring them into the hall . |
| 6 | However , once again I strongly suggest that you grow a collection of wild flowers in your own garden rather than pick them from the countryside and assist in depleting the stocks ! |
| 7 | Rather than write them in the book , just put the answers down either on a on a piece of paper . |
| 8 | It is best to try and group all mains-voltage components into one area rather than disperse them around the board . |
| 9 | The belief of the NUT that intelligence tests would be used to grade pupils on one scale rather than place them on a set of scales was amply vindicated . |
| 10 | Some poison lions which are troublesome , rather than kill them with a spear . |
| 11 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 12 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 13 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 14 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 15 | In fact , th the New York Saint Andrews Society which exists to er I think to er , apart from to hold er meetings and er get togethers , also to assist er Scots in New York , at least that was one of it 's original er , principles , they have a er a splendid dinner with all these gentlemen in full kilts , kengroms , don'tski and do 's , the whole bangshoot , and and their their women folk can come and watch them from the gallery upstairs . |
| 16 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 17 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 18 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 19 | What a challenge to transform and use them as an asset ! |
| 20 | That the Assembly could depose and fine them at no notice , as happened to Pericles himself towards the end of his life , shows that the Assembly was theoretically and actually master . |
| 21 | For example , many badger communities use one group of holes for several years , leaving others in the territory to fall into decay , only to uproot and re-open them on a whim . |
| 22 | Now see how many of these countries ' capital cities you can name and fit them into the grid . |
| 23 | With these oilskins and boots they 'd just come home and drop them outside the door and go indoors . |
| 24 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 25 | There is no doubt that the person entitled to goods may enter and take them from the land of the first taker if the taker himself wrongfully put them there . |
| 26 | The princes of the realms decided that they needed someone to rally round and lead them in the event that war should come again . |
| 27 | Small world then , life 's I mean erm , child seat , there was one child seat in that was strapped to the and erm there was erm the , the other car seats in the front of the not strapped in I had to hurry up and put them in the back , cos I was running a bit late I was running a bit late anyway . |
| 28 | I think I ought to go and put them in the dryer a bit longer . |
| 29 | Cabs , you used to jump in and drive them up the road cos there were no motor cars . |
| 30 | So will more than likely be off next week , but I do want to try and get something done with this and some of the other accounts , I want to try and get them out the way before I |