Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief purpose of the chapter is to outline how the two opposing groups in Ireland developed their dominant beliefs in the context of the new states of Ireland , and moulded the states to support them , strengthening antagonisms between the two groups . |
| 2 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 3 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 4 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 5 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 6 | Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ? |
| 7 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 8 | They are just carrying out their life in accordance with the rules given them , as all ‘ people ’ including Chewong do . |
| 9 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 10 | The tenant should consider deleting both clauses 11.1 and 11.2 though for the reasons given they could perhaps be tolerated if necessary . |
| 11 | The Russians agreed they were legally at fault . |
| 12 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 13 | The 1977 white paper , Policy for the Inner Cities ( HMSO , 1977 ) , argued that additional powers should be granted to local authorities to enable them to assist industry . |
| 14 | There is no shortage of advice available to local authorities to enable them to decide whether , in uncertain circumstances , it is politic for them to seek to start proceedings , whether criminal or civil . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman will know that we have recently announced a £10 million programme to provide grants to local authorities to enable them to give priority to buses through the construction of bus lanes and by giving priority to buses at traffic lights . |
| 16 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 17 | And experts fear they may never be seen by the public . |
| 18 | And experts fear they may never be seen by the public . |
| 19 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 20 | Of fungi , spores , hyphae and spore bodies are eaten by a wide range of invertebrates and fleshy spore bodies soon become infested with maggots ; snails rasp them ; beetles lay their eggs in them ; carrion-and dung flies take the foul-smelling slime of phalloids , while tortoises , rats , pigs , deer , macaques and probably other large mammals , in the Malay Peninsula at least , also eat them . |
| 21 | You have to get people out from behind their desks to see them clearly . |
| 22 | there is a serious side to community education and it is highly political in nature , that it should be directed towards equalising political power at local level , that communities should be learning skills to enable them to work with , and if necessary to confront local bureaucracy . |
| 23 | Effective Project Management — an intensive five-day residential course for executives needing professional management skills to enable them to meet their objectives successfully . |
| 24 | Oh it 's obvious that safety 's involved , I think that er it 's also er road use because er if people take a long time er going forwards and back trying to get into a space to park because they do n't have the basic skills to enable them to do it , then it 's frustrating for other motorists , and obviously accidents can be caused . |
| 25 | The point was the Germans hated them and wanted to get rid of them . |
| 26 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 27 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 28 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 29 | It will explore how they make sense of their predicament , and how , and in what circumstances , they devise separate or joint coping strategies to enable them to survive . |
| 30 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |