Example sentences of "[noun] of they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the present definition of such schemes , the beneficiaries of them may include not only present employees of the company concerned , but also employees , or former employees , of it or any company in the same group , and the spouses , widows or widowers , children or step-children under the age of 18 , of any such employees . |
| 2 | A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation . |
| 3 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 4 | By and large , these and other regional officers ' reports from the second wave of evacuation did not indicate that the outcry of September 1939 was justified ; typical of them was the verdict of one officer in October 1940 that ‘ the general standard of those evacuated is good and 80% of them should offer no difficulty at all in billeting ’ . |
| 5 | Many pioneers of women 's education made it quite clear that they did not accept Emily Davies ' view that girls might be trained in the same way as boys , and argued that they should be given an opportunity , by way of , for example , domestic science classes , to prepare for the lives a majority of them would lead as wives and mothers . |
| 6 | A gang of them would meet there , graduating from Meccano and toy farms to risqué games of Dare , illicit cigarettes , speculation about sex . |
| 7 | For instance , it is estimated that around 1m of the 1.7m new jobs forecast for the mid 1990s will be in the professional and managerial areas , and demographics suggest that a substantial proportion of them will have to be filled by women . |
| 8 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 9 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 10 | In Doctor Faustus whether heaven and hell are ‘ discovered ’ in a manner which confirms conventional expectations of them can have drastic implications for the play 's destination , the impact it makes on its audience . |
| 11 | When boys reach puberty , in primitive societies today as in ancient Greece , a group of them will go away into the mountains , jungle , or other hostile environment to undergo hardship and trials which , if successfully endured , allow them to return to society at a higher level , as adults . |
| 12 | The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris . |
| 13 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 14 | They dumped his body outside the Hizbollah 's offices with a note saying that the rest of them would die in a similar fashion if the three diplomats were not released . |
| 15 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 16 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 17 | One or the other of them would insist on having you to stay . |
| 18 | The legacies of these origins have persisted and there has never been agreement on the nature of international affairs , on the proper methods for studying them , or on the range of elements which theories of them must take into account . |
| 19 | If the business is subsequently hived up to Newco at less than both cost and market value , this will depress the value of Target 's shares , so that a subsequent disposal of them would realise a loss . |
| 20 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 21 | Old-fashioned or external sanitary towels , as anyone who has had the misfortune to make use of them will know , are dreadfully uncomfortable : they will not stay in place , they leak , and they chafe . |
| 22 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 23 | The founding brothers never entrusted anything to paper , fearing that rituals and their interpretation of them might fall into the wrong hands . |
| 24 | These experiences have extreme consequences and an interpretation of them will occupy the next three chapters . |
| 25 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 26 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 27 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 28 | He seeks to provide a substantive characterization of the concept of reality which will enable him to do two things : first , to show how certain rules and procedures are logically correct , how employment of them will suffice to guide us towards knowledge of reality ; secondly , to show how it can be rational for a self-controlled agent to seek to contribute to knowledge of reality . |
| 29 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 30 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |