Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not seem to mind , each patting her head and calling out that her hair would soon grow , which was more than could be said for the balding bailiffs escorting them . |
| 2 | It started as a minor incident involving a petrol tanker , but then other vehicles travelling too fast for the foggy conditions found they counld n't stop in time and crashed as well . |
| 3 | Although fee paying , through the assisted places scheme they provide places for pupils unable to pay fees — this money comes from public funds . |
| 4 | In Britain the social and intellectual origins of the early surveys gave them a particular emphasis summarisable as generality and factuality . |
| 5 | On the other hand , more of the owner-managed businesses said they now had more confidence in the direction of Government policy than the top 1,000 representatives . |
| 6 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 7 | Jean Grimshaw , in Feminist Philosophers : New Perspectives on Philosophical Traditions ( 1986 ) , explores tensions in feminist thought and examines some of the philosophical problems underlying them . |
| 8 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 9 | There is a definite sense that Ulysses is above the cynicism and sourness , even if he has to descend to the level of the other warriors to convince them of his ideas . |
| 10 | Second , the discovery of mineral resources and the consequent development of metallurgical industries in Transbaikal and the Altai demanded more manpower than could be met from the local populations , and hence acted as a loadstone for the attraction of the necessary personnel to work them , in the form of both voluntary and forced labour . |
| 11 | A quarter of the male nurses felt they had ‘ greater opportunities ’ to advance their careers than female nurses . |
| 12 | some combination of the above factors makes them different from the rest . |
| 13 | some combination of the above factors makes them different from the rest . |
| 14 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 15 | Similarly , the Hungarians became the principal external threat to the Christianized Germanic peoples of Europe in the late ninth and tenth centuries , particularly in conjunction with the Slavs ; and after the former 's defeat and settlement on the Middle Danube , it was a natural instinct of the Saxon rulers to draw them into the orbit of western Christian kingdoms . |
| 16 | The Commission reported that their visits to the inner and outer areas of the main conurbations convinced them that it is now the large housing estates in the inner ring , or on the fringes of the city , that present the most pressing urban problems in the mid-1980s . |
| 17 | You see , paradoxically , C One little one and C One little three in fact give a strong measure of protection to the er character of the conservation areas do they not ? |
| 18 | Almost an entire generation of Titfords in Frome was increasingly destitute from the 1780s onwards ; in a town which had depended heavily upon the wool industry for its prosperity for so long , the innate conservatism of the local clothiers left them unable to respond to changing times and new technology . |
| 19 | As the royal ship tied up on the river Volkhov , however , the courage of the assembled nobles deserted them . |
| 20 | But the haemorrhage of people since travel was eased in the past few years , and the mass exodus of the past weeks suggest they are in a minority . |
| 21 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | He is forced to accept , however , that by this stage , most of the readers of the published articles read them " out of a sense of duty " and " a wish to keep up with what is being done , " rather than " because they have any real interest in the subject " . |
| 23 | Texts a and b , addressed to the general reader , are relatively accessible fragments of language which require only specification of the intended referents to make them readily interpretable . |
| 24 | What proportion of the labouring classes did they comprise ? |
| 25 | The Scuds themselves have been a nuisance , the allies having under-estimated both the number of Iraq 's launchers and the ability of the Iraqi crews to conceal them . |
| 26 | The French suffered enormous casualties , including Ring John of Bohemia , the Duke of Lorraine and the Counts of Blois and Flanders , and Froissart suggests that only Edward 's decision not to pursue the remnants of the French forces saved them from even more serious losses . |
| 27 | All had their sails up and all were looking out to the Solent , not back towards the red foils approaching them at 35 knots . |
| 28 | All around them benches were quickly filling with ladies in silk gowns , giggling and chattering , who clutched velvet cushions to their bosoms as they simpered past the young men eyeing them . |
| 29 | On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go . |
| 30 | Moss says he has negotiated with the unnamed firms to ensure they wo n't be duplicating each others ' efforts . |