Example sentences of "they [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easy here , Hilary , Monica and Yvonne are more like your mates than your mum , it 's easier to talk to them than to talk to my mum . |
| 2 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 3 | They are unlikely to satisfy the test required by the main argument , i.e. that individuals were more likely to succeed in realizing that which reason required of them if subjected to the government concerned than if left to themselves . |
| 4 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 5 | However , the effect of the recent tribunal decisions in Warrener v Walden Engineering Co Ltd ( Case No 22672/91 , Hull 21 October 1991 ) and in Perry v Intec Colleges Ltd [ 1993 ] IRLR 56 is that there is a major risk for a purchaser that he is now obliged to provide occupational pension benefits to the employees equivalent to those enjoyed by them while employed by the vendor . |
| 6 | Yes , it 's erm , they came on stage , I think it would be good for and then they when coming to New Zealand yeah , the whole . |
| 7 | I wonder what Ministry will provoke in the kids here inside this Berlin dope den — are they as consumed by the same perverse taste for blood as myself ? |
| 8 | In making those recommendations they made clear they took into account the recommend the representations made and views expressed to them whilst complying with the statutory requirement that they should aim to recommend the European parliamentary constituencies with as nearly as possible equal electorates . |
| 9 | If you have an electrical test meter you can devise one of your own , using two electrodes and measuring the current passing between them when pressed into a wall . |
| 10 | The geological availability of these is used by geographers and historians as a strong argument for why settlements are sited near them when engaged in mining them , or when a particular industry which uses them as a raw material has to be nearby . |
| 11 | These are terribly obvious points , but we tend to forget them when dealing with complex and highly controversial matters which matter emotionally to us . |
| 12 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |
| 13 | And there are still just as many options open to them when looking for a loan . |
| 14 | On the other hand , traders buying sterling with dollars will be prepared to trade in the forward market at a rate that is also less attractive to them when compared with the expected future spot rate ( in this case f t will be less than ) . |
| 15 | Buses could more effectively operate them when integrated with the rest of the bus network , which would also enhance its profitability . |
| 16 | Decisions of the court upon the meanings of phrases used in Acts of Parliament may come , in the course of time , to give them the quality of terms of art which Parliament may well be assumed to have intended them to bring with them when used in subsequent legislation . |
| 17 | some actors today , notably Sir John Gielgud , use them when playing in classical drama and some eighty are still part of a dancer 's means of telling a story in classical style . |
| 18 | Certain industrial consumers of high voltage electricity claimed that tariffs applied by the electricity board resulted in undue discrimination against them as compared with consumers of low voltage electricity , and sought recovery of sums alleged to have been overcharged . |
| 19 | Erm try and where possible to use the individual communication with them as opposed to erm communicating to them as a member of a group preferably in a relaxed environment er rather than a sort of erm including any decision making pass on as much credit for that decision as possible |
| 20 | Erm in both of them it 's , they 're saying that how they 're falling behind and they ought to lead them as opposed to joining them . |
| 21 | The same segment of the population working as producers and consumers here creates quite contrasting images , although analysis reveals them as emanating from a consistent set of interests . |
| 22 | Certainly neither the KGB nor the GRU are going to stop spying , for that would leave them as exposed to criticism as if the CIA suddenly stopped spying on Russia . |
| 23 | To address the possibility that recombinant baculoviruses containing duplicated promoters might be unstable , we avoided the juxtaposition of identical promoters by arranging and segregating them as illustrated in Figure 1 . |
| 24 | Gloria was always telling Dot she should try to hold on to things so she 'd have them as keepsakes for ever . |
| 25 | Both of these lads had bits and pieces on their clothes and bodies that placed them as killed in the house where they were buried . |
| 26 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 27 | Cutting a whole sequence of further corners I shall now take it for granted that the total process by which we habitually segment and classify the things in the external world and recognize them as belonging to species entities originates in an introspective self-awareness that " I " can be distinguished from " my body " . |
| 28 | Although it can become distracting if the children always want to use it when you 're working as a whole group , there may be times when you want everybody to take a piece of cloth and make themselves something with it — a headband or a belt in a particular colour , for example to identify them as belonging to a particular group . |
| 29 | To utilize this to the full , Brusilov resolved to launch all four of his armies at once over a wide front , rather than concentrating them as dictated by contemporary military thinking . |
| 30 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |