Example sentences of "or the [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating . |
| 2 | Rule-following is the typical mode of action by which the structure of the content of the rule is reproduced in the actions of the people , though we may have to explain their aims or the acts they intend , in other ways . |
| 3 | This did not matter , since it was the topics that counted , not the order of them or the way they were introduced . |
| 4 | That means actually copying their hand movements or the way they are sitting and doing the same . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps they are learning a little more about airmanship or the way they should behave at 40,000ft and above from the medical point of view . |
| 6 | In these systems we have good descriptions of their anatomy and of the physiological properties of the major types of nerve cells but , at the cortical level , we do n't have good explanations of what the systems do or the way they do it , except in the broadest terms . |
| 7 | This is so even if the relationship they are worried about is a very strong one or the parting they are anxious about is a very ordinary and short one . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |
| 9 | When employees are dissatisfied with aspects of formal organisation ( eg. they dislike the work they do or the person they work for ) they are likely to rely more and more heavily on an informal organisation at work to satisfy their personal needs in their work situation . |
| 10 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 11 | What they 're actually doing is they 're affirming to themselves they 're verbalising the performance improvement or the performance they 're going to give . |
| 12 | Neither do the Somali Patriotic Movement or the S.N.M. They argue that the appointments run counter to the U.S.C. , S.N.M. and S.P.M. agreement of 2 October 1990 . |
| 13 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 14 | As they begin to remember their younger life and what their job was or the day they went on holiday to Margate , the more they may begin to make links with things happening today . |
| 15 | Pronouns can either become disjuncts ( he or she , her or his ) or the singular they may be used ( no one would use sexist language if they could help it ) . |
| 16 | All the time he was on stage , it was difficult for audiences to think of him as other than the ‘ Carry On ’ character or the voice they knew on the radio or now on television . |
| 17 | It may well be that many apparently successful partnerships continue only because one party or the other does not trouble to examine the benefit they derive or the price they pay . |
| 18 | This usually has to do with the guilt they feel connected with the death , or the shame they feel at their anger and resentment towards the one who has left them . |
| 19 | But on the other hand of course you 've often got to deal with not just them , but their parents or , or people around them or the people they relate to and |
| 20 | He came into control of the District Underground Railway in 1900 but he had no particular interest in trains or the tracks they run on . |
| 21 | It will examine any differences in children 's writing arising from their being taught writing through either themedium of their home language , or the language they are learnng . |
| 22 | As in days of yore , the competing knights were not identified by their names but by their insignia or the insignia they had adopted for the event . |
| 23 | Several studies demonstrate that the kind of help people want , or the priority they attach to particular needs , does not coincide with what they are offered ( Mayer and Timms , 1970 ; Lerner , 1972 ; Merrington and Corden , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | But it must never be forgotten that , if this happens , it happens by accident : it can be no part of the system that pupils should be entered for a test because of the age they are or the class they are part of . |
| 25 | An important implication of this , in the context of attempts which may be made to encourage Denmark to change her mind , is that assurances and comforting words which are not directly part of the Treaty are unlikely to be worth the paper they are written on , or the microphone they are spoken from , so far as the emerging European law is concerned . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 27 | They walked towards St Mark 's Square together in comfortable silence , knowing each other well enough by then not to have to make bright conversation or comment on the weather or the buildings they passed . |
| 28 | If it is necessary for the expatriate couple to learn a new language , the course should provide them with details on where they might go or the steps they should take to achieve this . |
| 29 | People had the money or the shops they were on show on the that most expensive dress shop . |
| 30 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |