Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rustins have written ( 1987 , p.2 ) that all the modern writers of fiction for children they examined ‘ are concerned , in one way or another , with issues of emotional development in children ’ . |
| 2 | Unlike many terrorists , Iranian or Iranian-linked groups often do not claim responsibility for atrocities they commit . |
| 3 | Governors have an increasing responsibility for schools they serve , very much like a board of directors of a public company but , unlike company directors , they may have little specialist knowledge or previous experience of management . |
| 4 | ‘ These are new schools and they have got money for projects they want and need . |
| 5 | We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided . |
| 6 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 7 | No inquiries have been made into the 240 Ulster soldiers who sacrificed their lives for their country instead we see them being framed by our so called police force and left to spend their lives in a prison cell for crimes they did n't commit . |
| 8 | We 're not dealing with an old dying structure industry like the steel industry or coal , we 're dealing with a mass consumer industry with high technology and in the middle ; in our town we have British Rover closing a company which was financed for 14 years by public money ; by public of this town paying their taxes to keep that company going and now in the middle of a massive boom for cars they want to propose closure and that point was dramatically highlighted this afternoon . |
| 9 | Yet every year brings casualties : young drivers behind the wheel of cars they are too inexperienced to handle , losing control and killing themselves or others . |
| 10 | They offer free professional advice on jewellery repairs , all of which are undertaken by highly skilled goldsmiths , and as Registered Valuers , approved by the National Association of Goldsmiths they offer detailed , accurate valuations , and advice on the purchase of jewellery . |
| 11 | But as a literal succession of images they come closer to the disconnected temporality of the succession of perceptual memories in the unconscious . |
| 12 | It is the second time the policemen have been sentenced for the murder of Nahaman , who died on 4 March 1990 as a result of beatings they inflicted . |
| 13 | Through their size , funding and concentration of personnel they are central scientific and technological establishments . |
| 14 | Poorly trained managers who found themselves faced with new , rapidly changing technologies developed technophobia out of fear of things they did not understand . |
| 15 | By their diligent eating of carcases they had probably spared the garrison an epidemic or a pestilence , but that was not what the Collector liked about them … though clumsy on the ground , their flight was extraordinarily graceful . |
| 16 | I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ’ |
| 17 | ( Without it or without secure supply lines , guerrillas might last a fortnight or so before their own food resources ran out , for there are strict limits to the weight of rations they can expect to carry with them . ) |
| 18 | Which brings us back once more to the web of words they have spun to entrap us . |
| 19 | Particular emphasis will be given to the implications of the finding that some patients with visual recognition impairments resulting from brain injury can show evidence , in implicit tasks , of ‘ covert ’ recognition of stimuli they fail to recognise explicitly . |
| 20 | People only accumulate competencies by continuous assessment of skills they do in their day to day job . |
| 21 | With companies being urged to look to the EC for the chance to expand now that the single market has come into force , this new service is intended to make it easier , particularly for smaller and medium-sized businesses , to take advantage of possibilities they might not otherwise get to hear about . |
| 22 | Even at the level of forms they 're all in each |
| 23 | But they take the Institute to task for criticising the level of services they are able to offer their members . |
| 24 | II are satisfied with the level of profits they are currently obtaining and do not therefore increase production . |
| 25 | They have a lower level of seats , like the new East Stand , but instead of an upper level of seats they have executive boxes for the assorted reptilia who frequent such places . |
| 26 | It is essential that we should maintain both our sensitivity and our effectiveness , if we are to protect and watch over the interests of the people we work for and provide the kind of services they need . |
| 27 | The new regimes , of course , differed widely in the kind of problems they had to confront . |
| 28 | He knew the kind of tragedies they were . |
| 29 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 30 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |