Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 2 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them , and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 4 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 5 | THE SCHOOL VIEW — ANDY CUSHING 'S BEEN THERE , SEEN 'EM , & HATES 'EM |
| 6 | Goods are in consumer use when a person is using them , or has them for use , other than exclusively for business purposes . |
| 7 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 8 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 9 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 10 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 11 | In this case , the student can write in pencil the words he is n't certain how to spell ; or underlines them for his own or the teacher 's later attention . |
| 12 | There are many areas of sexual activity where the Bible is silent ; it neither condones or condemns them . |
| 13 | The Commission provides guidance on certain of the services or costs they wish reviewed ; for example , in introducing a higher proportion of civilians into the police force or boarding out a higher proportion of children in care . |
| 14 | The farmer plows the earth , he harrows it , tears it , pulverises it ; he pulls out weeds , or cuts them , or burns them ; he poisons insects and fights against drought and floods . |
| 15 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 16 | If the last counter-offer came from the buyer , then the seller will signify acceptance ( depending on the type of goods and the nature of the transaction concerned ) when he ei ther appropriates goods to the contract , puts their manufacture in hand , or delivers them to the buyer . |
| 17 | Ball never addresses or acknowledges them , unlike Hughes , but there would be no point in doing so . |
| 18 | She herself paints abstract designs on an L- or U-shaped canvas , and leaves them on the floor or wraps them round a pillar . |
| 19 | The farmer plows the earth , he harrows it , tears it , pulverises it ; he pulls out weeds , or cuts them , or burns them ; he poisons insects and fights against drought and floods . |
| 20 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 21 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 22 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 23 | The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a ‘ spoil-sport ’ . |
| 24 | Such remarks can be an invitation to the teacher to come and listen or look , and as she shares the children 's enjoyment and pride or helps them to sort out their problems , there are times when this will involve ideas which are mathematical . |
| 25 | Amphoterics by themselves are not recommended for use as disinfectants although when compounded with QACs or bisguanides they can be effective if somewhat expensive . |
| 26 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 27 | There are several mirrors in our house , as you would expect , but he never confronts or consults them . |
| 28 | The Conclusions are circulated very promptly after Cabinet , and up to that time , no minister , certainly not the prime minister , asks to see them or conditions them in any way . ’ |
| 29 | Locke 's thought is that , just as we can distinguish between the characteristics of gold ( or the clock ) , and its corpuscular constitution ( or internal mechanism ) , so we can distinguish between the characteristic properties of a triangle , and what accounts for or explains them . |
| 30 | The leader either numbers each pair or gives them names such as apple , banana , cake , or other fruit . |