Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] they [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
| 2 | Well , yeah , but I mean the stories they tell about fishing so they 're different stories |
| 3 | In poor road conditions , police advise motorists to double the safe gap so they are four seconds behind the vehicle in front . |
| 4 | mummy if they 're good boys and work hard at school |
| 5 | They point beyond themselves to the possibility of an all-encompassing reality to which they are a vital witness because they are constituent parts , words signifying the Word . |
| 6 | I gather them all , unapologetically , into the same disreputable fold because they are all substances we use to change the way we feel . |
| 7 | The 250 runners-up will get a consolation prize of a pack of six Kodak extra-life batteries , manufactured without mercury so they 're well green ! |
| 8 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 9 | Successful applicants may be subjected to surprise random testing once they are hired -names of those who must provide a urine specimen are picked in a computerised lottery . |
| 10 | Unions are no longer above the law if they are damaging tactics such as ‘ blacking ’ or ‘ secondary picketing ’ . |
| 11 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 12 | He does n't have to break any ice because they 're all pals . |
| 13 | By an application dated 26 February 1992 Philip Rodney Sykes and John Roger Hill of Binder Hamlyn , appointed receivers pursuant to a facility letter dated 15 May 1990 and a debenture dated 28 April 1989 made between the respondent , International Bulk Commodities Ltd. of 80 , Broad Street , Monrovia , Liberia , and the Swiss Bank Corporation , sought , inter alia , a declaration on the question whether they were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 or receivers whose powers were limited to those conferred by the debenture . |
| 14 | In several African countries in which marriage or first union takes place comparatively earlier in life , one half of the women bore their first child before reaching age 19 ; in Bangladesh , 50 per cent of the women had at least one child when they were 16.5 years old . |
| 15 | Thus in SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 Donaldson J explained that a court should ask the question " Would the parties have agreed that a particular term formed part of the contract if they were reasonable men looking at the matter objectively in the knowledge that no adverse consequences could flow from the answer ? " |
| 16 | Chapels may be eligible in their own right if they are outstanding buildings ( grade I or II* ) , or on townscape grounds if they are in conservation areas . |
| 17 | There is very little interest indeed in sexual offences prior to the court appearance unless they are sexual assaults or murders with a sexual component In the 3,015 newspapers considered in the study , only 29 of these residual sexual cases were identified . |
| 18 | I 'm interested in the romantic novel , and erm in the way in which certain kinds of English fiction affect American models in this period , which continues in a way my interest in popular fiction , because the American fiction really takes as its model in the late eighteenth century , the early nineteenth century , not in fact so much the mainstream British fiction of the eighteenth century , we think of Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Smollett , these do n't provide very suitable models for American writers during that period because they 're all models based on the assumption of a fixed kind of society . |
| 19 | For the new classicals , high unemployment rates should not be the object of discretionary government intervention since they are mere epiphenomena . |
| 20 | A comparison of historical records with modern data revealed that in 1893 , the fish did not reach maturity until they were 75 centimetres long , but last year half the females were fertile at 50 centimetres . |
| 21 | But , no wait a minute cos they 're two issues ! |
| 22 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 23 | Which , presently , Meh'Lindi did , ravenously consuming fish , flesh and fowl from out of the stasis-boxes which they had brought to the suite from Jaq 's ship , the Tormentum Malorum , which went by the alias of Sapphire Eagle while they were visiting Stalinvast . |
| 24 | Pat and David have known each other since they were eight years old and astonishingly they say they always knew they would marry ! |
| 25 | whether they send people on a course , whether they send people on a course because they 're long term unemployed and having finished the course then do n't get a job but they are no longer long term unemployed . |
| 26 | M. Because they were two women on their own . |
| 27 | They have been cleared by the European Commission because they were transitional contracts . |
| 28 | The colonies as a group quickly emerged as a key element in British strategy because they were net dollar earners ( basically because of Malayan rubber and West African products such as cocoa ) and could be made so on a bigger scale by a number of policy devices . |
| 29 | The response of the couple was that this was encouraging news because they were successful circus clowns and hoping to have like children to keep the business in the family . |
| 30 | He had idolised the ex-boxer since they were young children together in Page Street . |