Example sentences of "they [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 2 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 3 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 4 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 5 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 6 | The LRCs have a maximum speed of 200 km/h , but are limited to 155 km/h because of the need to timetable them between slower freight trains . |
| 7 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |
| 8 | Here the first thing to check is whether they are slips or not : if the pupil can correct his own errors , do n't count them as serious spelling miscues . |
| 9 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 10 | More than 50 women work at Long Lartin prison near Evesham in Worcestershire , 17 of them as uniformed prison officers . |
| 11 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 12 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 13 | The curriculum for most young people who have left school involves academic or vocational courses which prepare them for specific adult roles . |
| 14 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 15 | They are thought to be the victims of fishermen , who blame them for meagre fish stocks . |
| 16 | The artifacts remain in the National Collection , but Mr Hopkin informed us that if successful with our application then we will retain them for ten- year periods . |
| 17 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
| 18 | The CBI , and large companies in particular , refused to use the new powers of the Industrial Relations Act for fear of stirring up even more trouble , leaving them for smaller maverick employers to exploit , and discredit , in highly contentious situations . |
| 19 | The boys are furious when the police break their own rules by arresting them for public order offences while they are fighting on their home ground . |
| 20 | Like , her politics were really cool … ’ she says , and explains how her mother would set up estate agents and expose them for discriminatory letting policies . |
| 21 | In any given year there may be 120,000 or 130,000 elections held , most of them for local school boards . |
| 22 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 23 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |
| 24 | The offline manager must specify for each media item whether it is to be used for primary or secondary purposes , although there is no absolute requirement to make them of different media types . |
| 25 | This topic is meant to improve pupils ' awareness of ‘ danger ’ areas in houses and to inform them of basic safety measures and precautions which should be taken at home . |
| 26 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 27 | So her shops with their carefully designed clothes sat on top of great orders for dresses and suits that Belmodes made for a handful of big stores who marketed them under different trade names , sometimes their own , but never Belmodes . |
| 28 | The NFU in Wales said those using the service will be able to ask about any matter that concerns them including Inland Revenue investigations . |
| 29 | She ushered them into deep leather chairs , offered Edward a copy of the Financial Times ( which he took , cravenly ) and pranced off down a corridor . |
| 30 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |