Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were District Officers , and there were Assistant District Officers , but they were stationed at regional headquarters where they functioned , not as independent administrators , but as assistants to the Resident : as late as 1921 the Resident at Kano declined to accept the posting of political officers to permanent stations in the districts . |
| 2 | Some of them have not handled light aircraft since they learned to fly , which can be as much as twenty years earlier . |
| 3 | On the whole these troubles were less severe with powered aircraft than they were with gliders . |
| 4 | Such apparent double standards need rigorous scientific data if they are to be justified . |
| 5 | Stephen Moon says 20 months is a longtime and they will be different people when they get home |
| 6 | I agree with the hon. Member for Chichester that it does not matter to the British people whether they have a pound sterling or an ecu in their pockets if their level of prosperity is being maintained and enhanced . |
| 7 | Those little shops are loved by the British people because they are conveniently located just around the corner . |
| 8 | I do n't like old people unless they are still children . |
| 9 | If you ask old people whether they ever think of themselves as old , they tell you it is only when they are ill or feeling very unhappy . |
| 10 | I presume you 've asked the old people whether they want their countryside to be destroyed or not ? |
| 11 | Old people because they do n't move around , what else do n't they do ? |
| 12 | Intermediate development versions of modules are deleted from magnetic media if they are not referenced by approved packages , and the hard copy process also provides the means of historically checking modules . |
| 13 | Well I think there is , there are n't many problem with the trained people because they 've been trained in the same areas as oneself and therefore understand what you 're on about . |
| 14 | A Job Club is a three week course for unemployed people where they learn techniques of job hunting , curriculum vitae preparation , and interview techniques , and are supplied with free stamps and free telephone calls during their time in the Job Club . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the authorities will require sets of consistent data before they accept that action is required . |
| 16 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 17 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 18 | Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld ; the elves because they were altogether too clever by half , and the trollen folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty , spiteful and greedy . |
| 19 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker . |
| 20 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) . |
| 21 | Rural trade unions do not feature in official statistics as they are considered illegal . |
| 22 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
| 23 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 24 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 25 | OEMs reportedly pay $75,000 to get source code for internal use and an additional $225,000 before they begin to distribute binary . |
| 26 | Then she injects them into the nostrils of an unfortunate sheep where they quickly start feeding on the membranes lining their host 's sinuses . |
| 27 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 28 | Chub are one of the most obliging fish because they are almost always hungry , and their appetites stay tuned , although to a lesser degree , even when the weather is at its most severe at each end of the scale . |
| 29 | The tropical forests can provide a home for such a specialized and diverse fauna because they undergo very little seasonal change . |
| 30 | But the wards are staffed twenty four hours a day , nursing staff are always about , we have dedicated security staff who can be called at a minute 's notice , and staff are obviously aware on kid 's wards how sensitive security is , and will be challenging people when they come on to the wards . |