Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [unc] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
| 2 | Do hearing people have a significant role in raising the level of deaf people 's lives to help them fit into society better ? |
| 3 | The difference between fat people and thing people is that thin people 's bodies tell them when they have had enough to eat . |
| 4 | He even gave North precious travellers ' cheques to ransom them , although the ransom did not work out . |
| 5 | One could not doze easily as one had done in Matt Stukely 's day for there was something too insistently personal in this new parson 's efforts to reach them ; yet they had remained stolidly unreached till now when the fervour of his exhortation spoke to them as with an angel 's tongue . |
| 6 | people who were not regular paper readers relied more on television , while Guardian readers relied more on the press ; but a plurality of every other paper 's readers said they found press and television equally useful . |
| 7 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 8 | Social Services have taken the unprecedented step of writing to the young victims ' parents warning them of Alan Stout 's impending release.Adrian Britton reports . |
| 9 | CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division . |