Example sentences of "of they [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper group plans to shed 33 jobs , about 25 of them through compulsory redundancy , leaving it with 400 staff to service the Daily and Sunday Telegraph . |
| 2 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 3 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 4 | Dentists claim that Government plans to cut their NHS fees will force most if not all of them into private practice . |
| 5 | He recalled that he had led the Party for thirteen years , nearly eight of them as Prime Minister . |
| 6 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 7 | More than 50 women work at Long Lartin prison near Evesham in Worcestershire , 17 of them as uniformed prison officers . |
| 8 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 9 | Two of them at New Drove are downstairs and one is an upstairs . |
| 10 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 11 | There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside . |
| 12 | but I 'd never put any of them at Right Back again , Or buy somebody . |
| 13 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 14 | The six sections of that car were allocated to twelve assorted actors and crew , most of them at that point reading , talking or fast asleep . |
| 15 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 16 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 17 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 18 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 19 | Only 12% think that they are public property and therefore the press should be able to take photographs of them at any time . |
| 20 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 21 | The inclusion of them at this point in the text , defines the whole process of the experience of love , " insuperable " " inseparable " and " singular " as the activity of the Holy Spirit in man . |
| 22 | She 'd had a cocktail of them at some point that morning . ’ |
| 23 | She had eight brothers and had had to fight or argue with every one of them at some time or another . |
| 24 | Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs . |
| 25 | The receiver 's got to dispose of them at some stage . |
| 26 | CVCP had maintained that ‘ an expansion driven wholly by the recruitment of extra students , many of them at marginal cost , could threaten research ’ , but says that the research funds mean that some universities can ‘ increase their income without recourse to student recruitment alone ’ . |
| 27 | Darling 's mark had been made on his final Test , however , with three catches in England 's first innings , two of them at short leg quite startling . |
| 28 | No doubt the army has lavish stocks of both ; but no capacity has been retained in Britain to make more of them at short notice . |
| 29 | Motorists who drive too close to the car in front of them at high speed are being targeted by Cheshire police . |
| 30 | This witticism reduced both of them to helpless laughter . |