Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | … Individuals are thus in both accounts primary and society secondary , and the identification of individual interests is prior to , and independent of , the construction of any moral or social bonds between them . |
| 2 | This states that the weights of two or more substances which chemically react separately with a fixed weight of a third substance are also the weights which react with each other or simple multiples of them . |
| 3 | ‘ At common law one 's duty to one 's neighbour who is the owner … of any goods is to refrain from doing any voluntary act in relation to his goods which is a usurpation of his proprietary or possessory rights in them . |
| 4 | Waldock , for example , considered that the ‘ general duty ’ upon States to respect the operation of treaties between other States , ‘ even when limited to treaties not impairing their rights or imposing disabilities upon them seems to go beyond the existing law ’ . |
| 5 | The public naturally turn to books of fiction , or televised versions of them , rather than to serious books . |
| 6 | To run pipes through walls can mean making medium or large holes in them . |
| 7 | SAVE your work under the filename : YourInitials1 ( see Task 4 ) leaving no spaces or full stops between them ; eg Jane Brown would type JB1 . |
| 8 | It would be a gross violation to carry out noisy or even physically energetic rituals or ceremonial activities at them . |
| 9 | At that time the Camargue had not been invaded by the tourists , who instigated the establishment of mournful-looking groups of tethered , bony horses in American-style corrals , souvenir stalls with gardien hats , and gaucho hats and Texan sombreros , little cotton peaked caps , with Mickey Mouse or pink flamingoes on them . |
| 10 | Gasification involves not only heating the coal ( as in carbonisation ) but also the subsequent reaction of the coke or char produced with air , oxygen , steam or various mixtures of them . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) An originating summons for leave to convene the requisite meeting(s) of members ( or particular class(es) of them ) . |
| 12 | interim and preliminary announcements and annual reports or precise extracts from them by listed companies |
| 13 | The publication of interim and preliminary announcements and annual reports or precise extracts from them by listed companies is subject to the exemption contained in Section 58(1) ( d ) ( i ) of the FSA , as supplemented by SI 1992 No 813 , which exempts from the investment advertisement provisions any document required or permitted to be published by listing rules issued by the London Stock Exchange or any other market specified by the SI , which includes the USM , and most major overseas stock exchanges . |
| 14 | It was now believed that they — or vital parts of them — were infallible cures for a whole variety of ailments and weaknesses . |
| 15 | While the TNCs from the United States no longer dominate these sectors as they once did , they are still the leaders in a wide variety of fields and even when they are not the leaders it tends to be ‘ American ’ cultural products or local adaptations of them that are on offer . |
| 16 | This suggests that certain Third World countries , or institutional sectors within them , which were once in the thrall of dependency , can escape and reverse their previous disadvantage . |
| 17 | We now know much more about surviving hunters and gatherers than was known in Morgan 's day and , although sexual unions among them may in some cases be very unstable , in others they are not . |
| 18 | Whatever else , it is clear that a modernist representation would not accurately capture the organizational patterns of contemporary Japanese organization , which have served in the 1980s as if they were a very beacon of postmodernity , given the role that various representations of them have played in recent debates . |
| 19 | Community policing was once the normal form of policing in the United Kingdom , but the increasingly bureaucratic and professional nature of policing unintentionally yet progressively separated the police from the community , leading to more anonymous and impersonal contacts between them ( see Ericson 1982 : 24 ) . |
| 20 | Different regions — or the people and economic activities within them — play different roles within the overall division of labour . |
| 21 | Their existence , like that of other nationalist splinter groups , was vital to the continuance of a Labour government , and private negotiations with them ( amongst whom was now numbered Enoch Powell ) ensured that their numbers in the new House of Commons would be raised from 12 to 18 . |
| 22 | Even in West Fife and Rhondda East , the Central Committee declared that : " the Party is prepared to , in conjunction with the Trade Unions and Labour bodies in them , convene a selection conference , bring the various working class candidates before it and abide by their decisions " . |
| 23 | We have encoded and used versions of them from the past we study . |
| 24 | They loved titles and titled people — they are no non-resistants and their vision is clouded by wealth and worldly importance — though there are many kindhearted and munificent men among them . |
| 25 | No matter how difficult some of his colleagues might be , no matter how incompetent , negative , bad-tempered and unco-operative they are , he will always persist in trying to develop constructive meaningful and friendly relations with them . |
| 26 | Times have changed , as have circuses and public attitudes towards them . |
| 27 | Before we consider each of these offences in outline , let us examine the practical and theoretical foundations for them . |
| 28 | Although his analysis is principally philosophical and occasionally historical the concepts and theoretical relations between them that he develops are relevant to understanding specific instances of ideology . |
| 29 | They occupy a cove with the sea and steep cliffs behind them and a sailing boat anchored to the right . |
| 30 | They must not be allowed to train a new and superior élite , and free places in them ( when and where they are introduced ) should go not only to the cleverest but to those who need a boarding education . |