Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accordance with Article 115 of the Articles of Association they hold office until the Annual General Meeting when they offer themselves for election . |
| 2 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 3 | In so far as the actions since 1979 have politicized areas hitherto relatively immune to such considerations they provide pretexts for a future Labour government to intervene in these spheres . |
| 4 | When ‘ the lads ’ talk about football they exclude others by discussing the intricate implications of a second division transfer that nobody else knew anything about . |
| 5 | Like databases they require source material that is structured in format . |
| 6 | Football again , a all my brothers they love football so much watching |
| 7 | As a result they lose contact with everybody — with their employees , their customers and their suppliers too . |
| 8 | The consultants clearly expected too much from an over-generalised model , and as a result they produce results which lurch from the absurd to the ludicrous . |
| 9 | As a result they diffract X-rays diffusely . |
| 10 | To the high command they conveyed aggression , but to the enemy they conveyed peace . ’ |
| 11 | Like living pelagic animals they had preferences for particular water temperatures ; different types of ammonoids were found in high or low latitudes . |
| 12 | As Scott said later , the judges ‘ were not Gothicly disposed and though they awarded premiums to all the best Gothic designs they took care not to put any of them high enough to have much chance ’ . |
| 13 | With a vigour amounting to tactlessness they put dissension and argument into film debate , too long overshadowed by blind acceptance of yesteryear 's taste . |
| 14 | Even as measures of arousal they have problems , they are difficult to record and analyse , and they may be dependent on things which are related only indirectly to either arousal or subjective risk ( e.g. preparations for action , expectancies , physical effort involved in driving ) . |
| 15 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 16 | Marseille last night paid the £2.5 m they owed Rangers for World Cup player Trevor Steven . |
| 17 | Supported by four Landrovers and equipped with a few flimsy spares , they sported jeans and shorts rather than jodhpurs , tee-shirts instead of ties and jackets , while on their heads they wore cheches — and definitely not pith-helmets. but if the style was different , the spirit was certainly reminiscent of those pioneer days . |
| 18 | On their heads they wear fezes . |
| 19 | In the UK McDonald 's uses 100% EEC produced beef , in Canada they use 100% Canadian beef , in the United States they use 100% US beef . |
| 20 | But in place of tea they drank beer . |
| 21 | In Taiwan they drink wine made from tiger bone . |
| 22 | The kernels have to be de-bittered , for like bitter almonds they contain amygdalin . |
| 23 | After an arduous approach march they reached Heraklion airfield , but found that it was well guarded . |
| 24 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |
| 25 | As solo-voice performances they leave room for refinement , but for intimacy of performance style and chronological near-integrity , this record gives other would-be Byrd performers something to ponder . |
| 26 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 27 | And for people who are not on income support , in other words they have means higher than that , but who do receive attendance allowance , their charge will go up from eight ninety at the moment to fifteen pounds . |
| 28 | To the high command they conveyed aggression , but to the enemy they conveyed peace . ’ |
| 29 | In the spring they fly North again . |
| 30 | In the spring they migrate north again . |