Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their bodies were covered in a mist of moisture as they lay side by side . |
| 2 | In winter the ground becomes cold and the trees are unable to take in the same amount of moisture as they do in summer . |
| 3 | Do you feel that you 're giving the parents the kind of support that they require ? |
| 4 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 5 | Mechanistic systems are unsuitable in conditions of change because they tend to deal with change by cumbersome methods . |
| 6 | In these cases some psychiatrists resort to the description ‘ schizoaffective ’ which , although itself an old term , is now often used in recognition of the fact that the traditional categories of schizophrenia and affective psychosis really only represent varieties of insanity as they occur in their pure forms . |
| 7 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 8 | Erm any bit of hope that they 've got erm i is going to be gradually eroded as far as I can see . |
| 9 | Both of hope that they include ideas to inspire and encourage those with even the smallest of gardens to create their own interesting , colourful features . ’ |
| 10 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 11 | Horses and ponies in the rest of Europe must have the same sort of protection as they do in this country . |
| 12 | The Head and Governors have a special burden of responsibility as they do for all matters concerned with the running of the school . |
| 13 | They are unable to enter into a total experience of mourning where they acknowledge loss and pain without needing to deny it or blame anyone . |
| 14 | In a haunting , slow-motion procession , with the nine-strong cast changing into costumes of mourning as they march , the production takes us back to Leontes 's tragic court . |
| 15 | Yeah of course once they get to know where you are |
| 16 | The first satisfaction of indeterminist claims , including those , like the present one , which are not within but are antecedent to the traditional area of dispute about Free Will , is of course that they leave , or promise to leave , room for a reassuring or enhancing view of ourselves and our situation . |
| 17 | Part of the answer is of course that they have little choice if , for example , the firm is made bankrupt . |
| 18 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 19 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 20 | of course until they notify and get it exempted which is always opened to do it 's always been opened of course to notify an answer when they get a bit of clearance should of been |
| 21 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 22 | I can usually tell by when I when I 'm doing a fact-find reply obviously you find out whether their erm position is , is erm simply building society or national savings investment , or whether they 've gone into shares or unit trusts or investment trusts , and you can see at what level they 're operating and of course if they 've still got their money under the bed , then |
| 23 | Yes that they are beginning a process involving both governments and er naturally er I welcome that very much , because I think the attention of both governments would have to be concentrated on this terrible problem , and of course if they take the trouble to read the statement that Mr Addams and I issued that 's precisely what we said , that the two governments should begin a process involving all parties . |
| 24 | Of course if they come to you then you get a feel of how the equipment is going to feel in your office , and that can be useful too . |
| 25 | People can ‘ change their luck ’ , and can in a way say ‘ No ’ to divine Providence , though of course if they do they have to stand by the consequences of their decision . |
| 26 | And of course as they say , if they 're not , we will let you know . |
| 27 | Under new arrangements , local authorities are penalized by loss of grant if they spend too much — that is , more than the government thinks they ought to spend . |
| 28 | The magic wears off , and Swift advises women that they have only themselves to blame for a husband 's loss of enthusiasm if they do not keep themselves clean : |
| 29 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 30 | Populations of these species may not be able to tolerate this type of predation because they have evolved in the absence of ground-based predators . |