Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other comments ( from other authors ) that you find interesting and that look as if they might be useful can go down in the blank spaces . |
| 2 | There is a particular problem associated with some designs in that they are activated simply by the sound of barking . |
| 3 | The four , Emmanuel Houtekins , his wife Godelieve Kets and their two children , had been on board a yacht , the Silco , in the Mediterranean ; there was some uncertainty over whether they had been seized off the coast near Gaza by the Abu Nidal group or south of Malta by a Libyan naval vessel . |
| 4 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 5 | Some question of whether they 're liable for import taxes or not . ’ |
| 6 | Although most country parks are monitored by crude counts of visitors , there have been few studies of whether they have achieved the aims set out above . |
| 7 | Perhaps Betty had asked some people in and they were enduring one of those breaks in conversation , but the silence went on . |
| 8 | The outer form and the behaviour of the creature are thus always at one — man does not try to flap his arms and fly , any more than an insect seeks out the sex pheromones of another species as if they were its own . |
| 9 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 10 | He argued that , on the one hand , reproduction is mainly practised by peasants and others of low rank , who could hardly be expected to show much interest in whether they produced male or female children . |
| 11 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 12 | First , most professional anthropologists use these words as if they were technical terms , but there is no general agreement about how this should be done . |
| 13 | I never would have credited that people would talk about these illusions as if they 'd really taken place . ’ |
| 14 | Apart from the fact that I mean , are n't we actually looking at something similar to erm erm here , in that most of these things were organized , as far as I can work out , was the one that organized all these lectures into but they were originally lectures . |
| 15 | Mr Hurd has talked about these articles as if they were about the imposition of old East European ‘ socialism ’ ( with Chancellor Kohl leading the way ? ) . |
| 16 | The company may still , of course , deal with these assets as if they were not subject to a floating charge . |
| 17 | Everything was alike ; men resembled each other as if they were all brothers . |
| 18 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 19 | It is not surprising , therefore , to observe a tendency amongst materialists to treat all properties as if they were purely relational . |
| 20 | For example : bed , patient , ward , nurse , are all concepts in that they refer to classes of things , not single instances . |
| 21 | The second , related one is about the reasons for treating all people as if they were the same , regardless of their individual peculiarities of sex and gender . |
| 22 | If public DC access is granted , by setting the 3rd parameter to TRUE , all users will be able to view all DCs as if they were an interested party . |
| 23 | A lit little write up through through pub this would surely bring more people in if they knew what was . |
| 24 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 25 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 26 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 27 | Obviously , North Shields and Cramlington are part of the same region in that they both lie within a single UK standard planning region . |
| 28 | Most individual actors do not rely upon their own judgment of whether they are doing well in the action , but refer to certain members whose real or even fancied reactions are taken as the expression of binding judgments of propriety . |
| 29 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |