Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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31 The authorities sometimes turned down applications for butcher 's licences because they feared that the presence of such establishments would lead to increases in cattle stealing .
32 They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism .
33 Er now let me ask the Planners whether they see that as the way in which they would be trying to operate this policy through the local plan .
34 Admire the ( British ) assassins as they plan and execute the audacious operation .
35 The most important marketer for the school could be the secretary who snarls at parents when they call or phone .
36 Another thing : not enough men would be in the middle waiting for crosses when they came and like I said before the crosses were mostly aiming for heads — or for Deano 's head .
37 She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients .
38 Once the disorder has developed , the impact of environmental circumstances on its course and outcome is relatively easily established : the difficult issue of reconstructing family relationships and other environmental circumstances as they existed before the appearance of symptoms is unnecessary .
39 Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops .
40 My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water .
41 As the potatoes cook , soak the dried mushrooms in the hand- hot water for 10 minutes until they swell and soften .
42 I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night .
43 In 1975 , one-third of the total number of members covered by occupational pension schemes were in schemes which had equal pension ages and they hoped that even without legislation this number would be increased by negotiation and voluntary agreement .
44 These are all traditional set operators and they require that all relations included in one operation have the same degree , that is , they have the same number of columns ( referred to as union compatibility ) .
45 However , there are times to leave practice ground ideas where they belong and play golf with your present swing , plus one simple key thought for the day .
46 I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable .
47 In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily .
48 Through them , it is possible to argue , as Foucault concluded from the design of the Panopticon , a whole type of society may emerge , a society based on the protection of sectional interests through subtle coercion , whose technology is used to preempt what people can and can not do in buildings that they use or occupy .
49 employees will only admit weaknesses if they feel that this will not be held against them .
50 Okay now some people you mention fractions and they scream and run and , Ah no no hate fractions .
51 They would turn in their graves if they knew that we were allowing employees to simply give twelve weeks ' notice of intent to change those conditions .
52 Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place .
53 Wholeness of body , mind and soul should be the prior concern of all Christians and they believe that this wholeness can be found through faith .
54 Contact a Family have found that there is a move amongst Health Authorities to increase the age at which they provide free nappies for children with special needs because they argue that children without special needs use nappies at night until they are 4 or 5 .
55 Some have armies and weapons because they fear that , come a war , they would need protection and defences .
56 Our reader does not like using water-based gums because they stretch and buckle the paper .
57 That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him .
58 And they er , I ordered this the one Saturday and two weeks after they come and put it up .
59 So two years after they married and as the couple face divorce , Isabelle Duchesnay is a sadder and wiser woman , aware now that she would always have come second to his work in her husband 's affections and that , because of her role in Chris 's life , Jayne Torvill turned into the spectre at the feast .
60 And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 .
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