Example sentences of "and [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Last Meal in the Old Home ’ , like a Pre-Raphaelite painting , the three orphans and the grieving servant seated in melancholy around the old table , using the old knives and forks they would never use again . |
| 2 | The Tiebout model is sometimes called the invisible foot : people will cluster together in the area providing the package of spending and taxes they want . |
| 3 | If he took no interest in gardening before his illness , he may find it refreshing to be outdoors looking at the different colours and shapes of the plants , smelling their fragrance , and watching the insects and birds they attract . |
| 4 | Architects and planners are usually men and , in the case of local authority housing estates , not of the class of those who actually spend most of their time in the flats and houses they design . |
| 5 | Then they gave her a battery of psych-tests that plugged straight into her nervous system ; though she fought against it , they strapped her down and there was nothing she could hide , no way to stop the relentless tide of data and attitudes they programmed into her , or the probing of her mental set . |
| 6 | The green forest now flared with colour as the plants advertised the delights and rewards they had on offer . |
| 7 | Finally , probably the most decisive factor of all is whether both parties were properly advised legally , and equally skilled technically and commercially , so that they should have been capable of adequately assessing the risks and rewards they were undertaking in the transactions and of producing a contract document which properly reflected this . |
| 8 | The skills and cultures they developed sustained them in a harsh living , and gave them a lasting , non-destructive role in Arctic ecology . |
| 9 | Numerous disputes arose between the Forest officers and the owners of lands and woods they had re-afforested . |
| 10 | All in Mr Honecker 's image , tough and second rate , they are not inclined to give up the hunting lodges and chauffeurs they feel are their due . |
| 11 | The assimilative approach , Gusfield suggests , is associated with groups that are largely secure , where the values and opinions they hold either are , or are perceived to be , supported by the majority of the population . |
| 12 | But regarding wages and hours they were all taken by the executive council and debated at the national joint committee with the employers . |
| 13 | A further problem is that in most cases the witnesses ’ recollections of the events may have been biased by descriptions already given in interviews with the police and discussions they may have had with others . |
| 14 | Such common risks to the interests and values they all share still give the allies plenty to fret about collectively . |
| 15 | And again , I mean the training agency are , are sort of masters and mistresses they say , of this , because they , they had this stuff and then they actually you know , certain departments will have a pre-printed page with all the abbreviations that you should use . |
| 16 | Colin and John wish to thank White 's Electronics for the posters , key-rings and badges they supplied and Denise Rushton , who not only let them have exhibition space free of charge , but also travelled from Leicester to Telford to meet them on the day . |
| 17 | Having discovered that if he took cinchona or Peruvian bark , from which quinine is derived , he developed the symptoms and signs of intermittent fever ( malaria ) , and knowing that cinchona was an effective treatment for malaria , Hahnemann went on to experiment with other substances in use at the time to see what symptoms and signs they would produce . |
| 18 | Meanwhile they fought , in the name of the politics and religions they had invented ( inventions which divide , whereas art unites ) . |
| 19 | Comparative studies by Sorge and Warner ( 1980 ) in Britain and West Germany also suggest that although factories in different countries may be very similar in terms of their size , technology and products they can , nevertheless , bring forth distinctly dissimilar forms of organisation and industrial relations . |
| 20 | In their processes and products they seek reliability and non-destructiveness . |
| 21 | Most of us appreciate the beauty that birds can bring to the garden , but when they spoil our fruit and vegetables they become less desirable garden visitors . |
| 22 | But the manufacturers claim that the insurers are still using a blanket approach which does not take full account of differences between models , and improvements they have introduced . |
| 23 | It is the job of those responsible for managing that plant and that technology to be thinking furiously what the next step is , and what changes and improvements they can see , because if you are not doing this your competitors will . |
| 24 | Both courses include a placement in Year III which allows students to apply the knowledge and skills they have gained in Years I and II in an industrial or commercial setting . |
| 25 | They were relevant , exciting and highly ambitious in the knowledge and skills they demanded of teachers . |
| 26 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 27 | This book should assist this process and help practitioners focus on what personal qualities and skills they bring and not just those areas in which help and information may be required . |
| 28 | We shall go on improving education and training to guarantee that all our children have the basic knowledge and skills they need in a modern economy . |
| 29 | He noted the classification of these stations , the great variety of styles used , and their relative paucity over vast desert distances compared with European standards — only sixty in a thousand miles — and their distance from the towns and cities they were to serve . |
| 30 | If the Romans wanted systematic information about the Celtic lands and institutions they had to recruit Greek scholars . |