Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 32 | Only four authorities stated categorically that they spent nothing on training , although some very low sums per annum — £25 , £50 — were mentioned . |
| 33 | Cereal farmers are using less nitrogen fertiliser and have changed the way that they apply it in direct response to concern over nitrogen pollution , according to a report form the Home Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 34 | an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education . |
| 35 | Once you have chosen your bureau make sure that they know everything about your system and the way that documents will be presented . |
| 36 | or they 're so serious about it that they 'll probably be watching everything , you know , just to sort of make sure that they know everything about |
| 37 | People write me letters saying that although they only know me from my photos , they feel that they know something about my personality . |
| 38 | It was said in Scorer v Seymour-Johns [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 347 per Salmon LJ that the special element can be characterised as the connection relying on the employee to the extent that they regard him as the business rather than his employer : in that case the employer 's business had many recurring customers ( cf Fellowes & Son v Fisher [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 829 ) . |
| 39 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 40 | This does not mean that they put themselves into the hands of an absolute authority . |
| 41 | He thought , when this Lieutenant Colonel came back to him and said , oh my God the police budget 's in problems , we 've got em here , that they put something onto the council agenda . |
| 42 | It may be because the juniors act independently with equal quantities of youthful enthusiasm and historical ignorance that they get themselves into situations that the dinosaurs have seen before . |
| 43 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 44 | ‘ He said that Arabs were savages and that they ate nothing but camel dung . ’ |
| 45 | Auer did , in fact , produce such fine raised patterns that Austrian government representatives found the resemblance so close ‘ that they took them to be real lace , until , by touching and closely examining them , they convinced themselves that they were the production of the printing press ’ . |
| 46 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 47 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 48 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 49 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 51 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 52 | They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position . |
| 53 | The island presented such a complex profile to the early European navigators that they assumed her to be separate islands — and her pluralized name remained all the way up to Indonesia 's independence when an orgy of name-changing occurred and Celebes was renamed Sulawesi , and her capital , Makassar , became Ujung Pandang . |
| 54 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 55 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 56 | Ultraviolet light is so important to insects that they use it as a main component of their colour vision . |
| 57 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 58 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 59 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 60 | Equally loyal and effective was the Lady-in-Waiting , the Duchess de Bassano , whose husband was Grand Chamberlain of the Court , and whose devotion to their sovereigns was such that they followed them into exile , remaining faithful unto death . |