Example sentences of "they [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |
| 32 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 33 | More than 50 women work at Long Lartin prison near Evesham in Worcestershire , 17 of them as uniformed prison officers . |
| 34 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 35 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 36 | However , at the time of going to press , Berthoud , Chafer and Degania are also offering them as original equipment on their sprayers . |
| 37 | When regional deals divert more trade than they create , economists regard them as harmful overall : such arrangements tend to shift production to less efficient producers . |
| 38 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 39 | Erm strictly in those terms by by district , mainly because much of the development across North Yorkshire is on very small sites er within urban areas , within villages , the extent to which you define them as green field or brown field sites becomes a very subjective one and I I think it 's a very difficult line to draw . |
| 40 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 41 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 42 | ‘ They are so well rewarded it 's hard to motivate them for international football . |
| 43 | THE Government last night moved to avert a threatened mass exodus of dentists from the NHS and put on ice plans to cut fees paid to them for dental work . |
| 44 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 45 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 46 | The Dependency Ratio , refers to the ratio between those in employment and those dependent on them for financial support , — directly or indirectly eg children , the elderly and the unemployed . |
| 47 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 48 | The curriculum for most young people who have left school involves academic or vocational courses which prepare them for specific adult roles . |
| 49 | And he said , I do apologize , he said , for the mucking about , he said we want to work with our sub-contractors very , very , closely and have a good er relationship with them for ongoing work and stuff like that . |
| 50 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 51 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 52 | This frequent contact with families is given strong emphasis by the prison authorities , who see it as one of the key elements both of encouraging prisoners to participate and in preparing them for successful reintegration . |
| 53 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |
| 54 | them for Good Use . |
| 55 | As these wheels are going to take the weight of the entire model , it is best to pin them for extra strength . |
| 56 | On the other hand Mrs Thatcher has jealously maintained tax reliefs for homeownership and private pensions ( indeed , extended them for private health care for the over-60s ) and privatization of gas and telephones have done little to increase competition . |
| 57 | This would leave the bassist free to add little chordal colourings on the G and D. You could also use them for striking solo intro riffs , something they excel at , while adding a touch of stereo chorus provides an even sweeter sound . |
| 58 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 59 | They pulled the chunky torches from their holsters , and primed them for high output . |
| 60 | Are suitable writing materials easily available if the children are likely to need them for reflective work ? |