Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] of they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 2 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 3 | Justices who exercise this delicate jurisdiction are under a statutory duty to carry out the inquiry expected of them by the Children Act 1989 . |
| 4 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 5 | They 've had er enormous difficulties and er the honourable gentleman will er know that the South Wales police authority committee , its officers and its Chief Constable have er visited parliament er to put their case to members representing the South Wales police authority area and indeed to er Earl Ferrers the minister er responsible for the police and they certainly have n't had any er criticism made of them by his own government and if er he believes that there is a criticism I would suggest that he takes a leaf out of the book of his er , his right honourable friend the Secretary of State and refers the matter so that it can be properly audited and er I think the honourable gentleman knows that when that is done he will see that there is no blame attached whatsoever to the members or the officers of the police authority . |
| 6 | The crucial distinction drawn by Mr Hibbert and others is between the figures themselves , simon pure as they are , and the possibly misleading use made of them by politicians and others . |
| 7 | In the West we tend to trust our official government statistics and then to distrust the use made of them by politicians . |
| 8 | They simply show the courtesy and respect demanded of them in such a society as theirs . |
| 9 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 10 | And if there was any one reason which , more than any other , ensured his defeat at the ensuing general election , then surely it was the inability of the trade union movement to assume during what had therefore become the winter of discontent , the responsibility required of them as a justification of the power and influence they claimed . |
| 11 | The Labour Party talked of them as if they were filled with caramels . ’ |
| 12 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |