Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress . |
| 2 | During experiment they were placed in modified Bollman type cages to maintain the minimum restraint necessary . |
| 3 | Clerical subventions to Edward I did not end here , but in future they were to issue from papal taxation . |
| 4 | Two people were taken to hospital with cuts and facial bruises after the car they were travelling in smashed into a road sign on the A1 western bypass at Lobley Hill , Gateshead , yesterday . |
| 5 | Fifty three women were on a WI outing to Denman College at Abingdon in Oxfordshire when the coach they were travelling in crashed into the back of a truck . |
| 6 | As justices of the peace they were burdened by central government with a growing number of responsibilities ; the more prosperous also intruded into the market towns , maintaining houses in Chichester or Lewes as well as the lesser centres , and replacing townsmen as Members of Parliament as the costs of the job became more onerous and the social distinction of election more desirable . |
| 7 | At the moment they are swamped in other considerations and their very existence is often denied . |
| 8 | Forty-four-year-old Robin Phelps from Brockweir was one of two men who died after the gantry they were working on collapsed and fell more than a hundred and fifty feet into the Severn in September ( 1990 ) nineteen-ninety . |
| 9 | Before their confinements some women go to the trouble of having the room they are to lie in fumigated . |
| 10 | Brownish grey in colour they 're recommended for freshwater tanks , but should be tested in low pH set ups with care as some may raise the pH . |
| 11 | ‘ If we afforded them the respect they deserve the respect they are given in other European countries then the standard of service we would get would be a lot higher , ’ says the 55-year-old Swiss-trained baker . |
| 12 | People do not know which authority they are paying for particular services . |
| 13 | The open cars were delivered in 1934 , to save money they were fitted with second-hand controllers . |
| 14 | As reports flood in [ in this case they are drawn from contemporary accounts ] groups must produce a front page story about the cholera . |
| 15 | Ethnomethodology depicts conversation as discourse constructed and negotiated between the participants , following pre-established patterns , and marking the direction they are taking in particular ways : with pauses , laughter , intonations , filler words , and established formulae . |
| 16 | On closer inspection they were equipped with central nipples of white rubber . |
| 17 | So of course they 're based on national figures . |
| 18 | In this case , however , methodological issues are tackled from a largely user standpoint , whereas in the previous part they were viewed as substantive problems in their own right . |
| 19 | After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year . |
| 20 | In the Trichoptera and the Dipterous family Psychodidae , for example , they are closely covered with hairs , while in the Lepidoptera they are invested with overlapping scales . |
| 21 | After discharge they were reviewed at weekly intervals and the volume of feed consumed was recorded daily throughout the four week period . |
| 22 | For some reason they 're mounted on angled surrounds , which I quite like the look of , but the coils are screened by black plastic covers which look pretty cheap and make a nasty scratching noise if you hit them with a pick . |
| 23 | Some form of property taxes are an almost universal source of income for local government , but in many parts of the world they are accompanied by other forms of taxation . |
| 24 | This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule . |
| 25 | I knew that in the main they were painted by Indian and mestizo artists at the command of the Europeans . |
| 26 | When patients come to hospital they are living in close contact with more people than usual . |
| 27 | They had taken an early lead with four points from Damien Short but when Oliver Lennon was sent off for a high challenge they were plunged into temporary disarray . |
| 28 | Where the transform faults occur on land they are associated with significant topographic features such as the valley of the Irrawaddy River in Burma . |
| 29 | But for the rest of the year they are dominated by dead plants . |
| 30 | That way , they query nothing and never answer back ; as a result they are not known for their political judgement , but , during the Depression they were jolted into social awareness . |