Example sentences of "of they [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And through all age groups for women ( 12–64 ) , two-thirds of them take very little exercise at all . |
| 2 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 3 | They sat on staircases to talk about poetry or politics , and many of them smoked long thin cigarettes rolled in dark brown paper and smelling of perfume . |
| 4 | There were first of all Tudor chroniclers of various kinds , many of them writing straight political propaganda . |
| 5 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the grammar schools existing separately from secondary modern schools edgily defended their difference and their rights — even if one of them had only six pupils in the upper sixth . |
| 7 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 8 | It represented in real terms an overall cut of about 9 per cent , though as allocations to individual local authorities were made on an arbitrary basis , some of them suffered much greater reductions . |
| 9 | ‘ I am sure one of them attached this little blighter to your TV set in the short time you were showing me in . |
| 10 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |
| 11 | Many of them wear long ragged cloaks , hooded coats , and dangling caps which cover their bodies and protect them from the sunlight . |
| 12 | Although each of them gave greatly inflated estimates of their membership , reliable intelligence reports suggest that they were shoestring operations with minimal popular impact . |
| 13 | Scottish parents are apparently even more likely to do this — one in three parents never protect their children from its harmful rays despite the fact that many of them have particularly delicate skin . |
| 14 | Many of them have inordinately high mortgages around their necks and they are finding it extremely difficult to service them in this unusually long period of high interest rates . |
| 15 | And some of those guys out there , some of them have actually committed suicide . |
| 16 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |
| 17 | As well as this posh pedal thingie , Quickjoy also have a number of natty new joysticks poised for release — a good few of 'em looking pretty damn mean from the blurb sheets , too . |