Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , the coupe 's front and rear look rather as if they were designed by different committees . |
| 2 | This is the case regardless of whether they take an objective , subjective or general view of their work ( see page 62 ) . |
| 3 | She patted his hand and smiled , then pursed her lips together as if they must be forced not to speak another word . |
| 4 | A London chronicler , writing of events in early 1461 , talks of the northerners almost as if they were foreign enemies : ‘ it was Reported that the Quene w ’ the Northern men wold come downe to the Citie and Robbe and dispoile the Citie , and distroy it vtterly , and all the Sowth Cuntre' ( 22 , p.172 ) . |
| 5 | The most direct link between the Fabians and Spencer is Beatrice Webb , who was brought up under his tutelage , absorbed his scientific method of viewing ‘ all social institutions exactly as if they were plants or animals — things that could be observed , classified and explained ’ , but who eventually shook herself ‘ completely free from laisser-faire bias ’ . |
| 6 | They had to pull their weight , but they brought up one or two who had lost their parents just as if they were their own children . |
| 7 | The living animal has by this process been transformed into something approximating a circuit board in a computer , and the researchers can go about exploring its properties rather as if they were electrical engineers , presented with a novel piece of equipment and trying to understand from scratch how its circuits function . |
| 8 | In his wake were two older men in crumpled uniforms , unshaven clumsy fellows , carrying their rifles gingerly as if they feared they might go off unexpectedly . |
| 9 | Looked at in this way , terrestrial zodiacs can have a role regardless of whether they are considered objectively ‘ real ’ or not . |
| 10 | Does the witness know how to contact you if they are going to be late ? ( 10 ) Do you do enough to help the witness get to court ; proper notice , instructions , map etc ? ( 11 ) Do you have a system for thanking witnesses regardless of whether they have to give evidence ? ( 12 ) Do you have an explanatory leaflet to give the witness ? |
| 11 | Finally , Schrager and Short focus on ‘ illegal ’ acts , but they do not stress that this refers to acts punishable by the state regardless of whether they are subsumed under civil , administrative , or criminal law . |
| 12 | They develop through well researched stages regardless of whether they are formal or informal . |
| 13 | Is Windthorpe just for when they got old . |
| 14 | He kept his voice low as if they were conspirators and that annoyed her too . |
| 15 | The accounts presented to Parliament , in the form of Estimates and Appropriation Accounts , are statements of cash receipts and payments during a year regardless of whether they are in respect of current or capital expenditure and , if current , whether benefit of the related goods and services was received during that year . |
| 16 | After the cool period , treat the bulbs exactly as if they were growing in compost . |
| 17 | I mean since Britten , and then later on Tippet and now Maxwell Davis and Birtwhistle , there is a general respect for English music and quite frequently the Continentals will commission a piece by Birtwhistle or Maxwell Davis now as if they were major composers , and indeed they are of course . |
| 18 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
| 19 | Recognise that alcohol , cannabis , cocaine , LSD , heroin , Methadone , minor tranquillisers , sleeping tablets and many other mood-altering substances are all cross.addictive to sufferers from addictive disease and that all these drugs feed the disease regardless of whether they are legal , illegal or medicinally prescribed . |
| 20 | This is very similar to the corresponding category for speech , and the verbalized thoughts are often put in quotation marks just as if they were speech . |
| 21 | It can not be right to treat unmarried women who have the support of a partner both as if they had no such support and better than if they were married . |