Example sentences of "a [noun] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 was tame , his creation of a secret committee in 1857 was the traditional way to sweep calls for change under the carpet , the Nazimov Rescript envisaged a form of emancipation which would have severely damaged the peasantry , the relaxation of censorship in January 1858 was short-lived and the provincial tour of 1858 represented yet another futile attempt to persuade nobles to accept a measure they were bent on resisting . |
| 2 | They seem almost magical in themselves and once incorporated in a story they are guaranteed to weave a web to catch and hold us . |
| 3 | After a storm they were washed back in dozens , but most of them were broken or half ground to powder . |
| 4 | Anyway we can sort the problem because you 'll take them back a wo n't you ? put them outside your house , creating a smell they were playing up . |
| 5 | When an audience is responding to a play they are identifying what they have in common with the human beings on stage . |
| 6 | and I said who 's that ? and he went oh god , shit we 're in the wrong tent and they went out and you can hear 'em I mean being a tent they 're laughing their head off for about half an hour |
| 7 | According to one witness , as they ran away across a park they were heard to shout , ‘ Look out for the Hooligan gang . ’ |
| 8 | Into this somewhat bizarre plot , Hopper built in his odd interjections designed to remind the cinema audience that it was only a movie they were watching , that nothing was real . |
| 9 | With the advent of compulsory , competitive tendering in local authorities , direct service organisations are forced to compete with private sector organisations for contracts to provide certain services and as a result they are beginning to use strategic planning techniques ( see the section below on business planning ) . |
| 10 | ‘ As a result they are placed at risk . |
| 11 | As a result they were endowed with both the legitimacy of their official role and the popular support of the majority of users . |
| 12 | Almost 400 ministers refused to conform to this imposition of Episcopacy and as a result they were debarred from their kirks , deprived of their livelihoods , and disqualified from acting as ministers . |
| 13 | As a result they were met with a 45-minute barrage of gunfire . |
| 14 | This the Trojans did , and as a result they were called Franci , which the author thought was the Attic for " fierce " . |
| 15 | As a result they were used as pot-scourers , especially the species E. hyemale , called Dutch rush or scouring rush , and used in Britain and North America for cleaning and polishing metal such as pewter , brass and copper , and for scouring wooden containers and milk-pails . |
| 16 | A bug they 're passing around . |
| 17 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 18 | Five thousand francs a kilo they were fetching today , and a week later in London shops 12s. 6d. each for little tiny ones . |
| 19 | As a group they are eclipsed not only by the connections of local magnates , but by the affinity which developed around the queen and her brother earl Rivers . |
| 20 | As a group they are eclipsed not only by the connections of local magnates , but by the affinity which developed around the queen and her brother earl Rivers . |
| 21 | As a group they are called the Protozoa . |
| 22 | — To generate the language of description by setting students the task of describing a character or a place they are going to see . |
| 23 | ‘ When somebody is going through a crisis they are opening up to you and a deep bond does develop , more perhaps than you would have with a doctor . |
| 24 | Yesterday relatives of Charles Prattley told a coroner they were disgusted by the way he had been treated by staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 25 | It is a joy they 're missing , but it is never revealed to them . |
| 26 | For a moment they are snapped like a photograph in a flash of daylight . |
| 27 | But it is important for people to understand that this is a job they are doing , and for both they and the professionals involved to realise its significance . |
| 28 | A special intercom linking the theatre with the pathology lab means surgeons can find out the results of a biopsy within a few minutes to establish , for instance , if a tumour they are operating on is malignant . |
| 29 | COUNCIL workmen found a booby-trapped caravan yesterday on a site they were clearing after a court battle . |
| 30 | Having been dormant for a while they are looking for funds to give Britain 's young people the opportunity to realise their full skiing potential . |