Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 2 | Repeated surveys have shown that a large majority of people remain convinced that Britain is much more strike-prone than other industrial countries , that strikes cause severe economic disruption and that they are a major contributor to the country 's industrial decline ( Taylor , 1980 , p.13 ) . |
| 3 | Speak to a Kenyan distance runner in the high hills of the Rift Valley , a Bulgarian hurdler , a Soviet pole vaulter or even a Chinese high jumper and though they may not understand a word of what you are saying , when you utter the words ‘ Andy Norman ’ lights will shine in eyes and heads will nod in recognition and they will search , sometimes desperately , for an interpreter . |
| 4 | L. B. Clarence , a Supreme Court judge , felt that juries often reached the wrong verdict and that they were inappropriate for Sri Lanka . |
| 5 | AS OUR ship 's company — some 50 passengers and the same number of crew — assembled on the dockside , there were wry remarks that nothing else was like our old tub and that they would sail the Nile in none other . |
| 6 | Erm because although they accept that there are certain conditions within the , within the tower block which affect the block as a whole , they would say that they would affect each individual flat to a greater or lesser degree and that they would have to be taken on individual merit . |
| 7 | During the study days , the patients were fully ambulatory and could follow their preferred daily routine except that they had to return to the laboratory for their meals . |
| 8 | The centre responds to requests for productions from groups in and around Bangalore with the understanding that they are used for the purposes of education and social development and that they reflect the principles of Christian communication . |
| 9 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 10 | The European Court also decided in favour of two Spanish and British foreign language tutors at the University of Venice , who had been denied contracts of indefinite duration on the grounds that the posts were in the public service and that they were not Italians . |
| 11 | He did not say whether they had been involved in any of the English advice or whether they were advising on the valuations as going concerns as bus stations or advising on the development values . |
| 12 | But Lévi-Strauss is arguing that kinship systems serve a similar discursive role and that they are similarly constructed out of units of meaning . |
| 13 | In January 1801 he wrote to Charles James Fox , the Leader of the Whig Opposition , enclosing the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads , and asking him to read Michael and The Brothers , not for their poetic merit but because they illustrate ‘ the weakening of the bonds of domestic feeling among the poor ’ . |
| 14 | There is more evidence that they are not mindless automata than that they are . |
| 15 | Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane . |
| 16 | Perhaps it 's surprising that in some cases the learning outcomes and performance criteria were not being assessed or applied — all the National Certificate publications stress that these features are at the heart of the competence-based system and that they can not be varied under any circumstances . |
| 17 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 18 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |
| 19 | At first , as Counts of Poitou , the Dukes had been chiefly involved in northern French politics but once they had also become Counts of Gascony their interests turned more and more to the south , towards Toulouse and towards Spain , where they took a leading part in the Holy War against the Moslems . |
| 20 | Whether because they have genuinely changed their political philosophy or because they simply realize that they will never get away with it in a modern pluralistic society , for whatever reason , conservative Protestants have preferred to follow the democratic inheritance of the Reformation . |
| 21 | Given that the private sector median allowance is £1,500 extra in inner London and £1,000 extra in outer London , will the Government ensure that their public sector pay policy follows the private sector and that they compensate people who work in London for the substantial additional cost of living in London ? |
| 22 | Inner-city riots , the politics of nationalism , peace protests , community action , and the emergence of single-issue movements around the felt concerns of blacks , women , the youthful , and the disenchanted , may not prove to be permanent features on the political scene but whilst they are around they are likely to defy easy incorporation into the snugness of the state . |
| 23 | Laura Ashley bought substantial amounts of tweed from Cambrian Mill and although they paid the regular price , the company drew upon its charity budget to subsidize this at the rate of a pound per metre . |
| 24 | The Fitzgerald family went together to early Mass and as they walked home everything seemed normal . |
| 25 | They can not afford the extra rent and if they are driven away they will starve . |
| 26 | Words presented visually or auditorily are less well recalled when they are similar sounding than when they are different sounding . |
| 27 | Simon Kellett and Ashley Metcalfe were in a business-like mood and although they picked off the bad balls , they took few unnecessary risks . |
| 28 | Members were discouraged from bringing along a personal caddie and if they did they still had to pay the caddie master the fee he would have received , irrespective of whether there was a caddie available or not ! |
| 29 | Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished . |
| 30 | They build idealised models but then carry them over into real usage as though they really existed , forgetting that they had initially involved ‘ bracketing ’ certain assumptions . |