Example sentences of "of [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Forest of Dean they also took housebote and haybote and a tree trunk at Christmas , under the supervision of the verderers and other Forest officers : they employed men to make some of this wood into charcoal and to operate travelling forges for the smelting of iron , and were answerable to the Crown when these workmen took wood in the forest to which they were not entitled . |
| 2 | But with a certain amount of bemusement they 've had to overcome several problems to meet their latest challenge . |
| 3 | I mean , I do n't know what sort of taxes they have on eh , on drink and that sort of thing , but I think Austria is more or less the same same sort of tax . |
| 4 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 5 | Though Invergordon 's shares dipped sharply early on in the morning after the figures , by the close of play they had recovered to end only 1p down at 269p . |
| 6 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 7 | The Soviet aversion to this multilateral arrangement and the apparent Soviet-preference to deal bilaterally with Vietnam , Laos and Kampuchea reflects the Soviet opposition to the creation of blocs outside Soviet control , even if the blocs are constituted of states they accept as ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 8 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 9 | It may eventually become apparent that the successful implementation of the 1981 Act was made impossible because in the early stages of its introduction too many teachers were frustrated at the lack of support they received . |
| 10 | Erm some people around , particularly a the Asian population around w then became worried about what sort of support they would actually get from , the police in real terms if outsiders came into the area . |
| 11 | Yet individually , advisers and advisory teachers earned considerable respect for the extent and quality of support they provided . |
| 12 | Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies . |
| 13 | Is the media merely a tool that can be used by the dominant group in society to bring about whatever change or lack of change they require or does it , by its nature , shape the influence it has on the population ? |
| 14 | Further evidence to suggest that events are important in depression according to their threatfulness rather than according to the amount of change they signify comes from a study by Tennant and Andrews ( 1978 ) . |
| 15 | Mrs Johnson said : ‘ We left the bottle on a table in the communal lounge and whenever a resident had a pocketful of change they would put it in . |
| 16 | A variation is the adjective checklist in which respondents are asked to indicate any of a list of adjectives they feel apply to themselves or to others , or to a product , etc . |
| 17 | Keep away from modern detergents in washing-up water , and bubble baths which degrease any bit of skin they are in contact with . |
| 18 | ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce . |
| 19 | For a number of reasons they normally fail to reproduce , and are present only for the lifetime of the individual(s) . |
| 20 | Subjects in Study 3 were members of the Unit 's subject panel , thus most had participated in previous experiments at the unit , for a variety of reasons they may be generally better at this type of task than those recruited through a newspaper advertisement appealing specifically to drivers . |
| 21 | The range of products they try — from glue to lighter fuel — grows all the time and the fashionable solvent changes from one year to another . |
| 22 | The kind of products they handle are mostly fibres , films and acetate flake , going into end uses ranging from clothing and imitation suede to food packaging , confectionery and spectacle frames . |
| 23 | There are a lot of ways that er both the Councillors can get into the habit and recycling is quite habit forming of recycling and from that er home use of recycling they will learn that there is a lot of products they can use in their councils ; recycled plastic makes very good er roadside signs that do n't rust and do n't need painting . |
| 24 | Leaning against a recumbent Henry Moore , a group of English Sloanes , lanky people , all wearing old men 's panama hats regardless of sex , shared out the single bottle of champagne they had bought at the Duty Free and laughed loudly . |
| 25 | As he said it , he held her eyes and suddenly Ronni was remembering that glass of champagne they 'd shared at the party . |
| 26 | Since most foreigners know only of the Phoenix King and the pre-eminence of Eataine they tend to assume that Ulthuan is a far more homogeneous bloc than in fact it is . |
| 27 | How haggard and bereft of hope they looked ! |
| 28 | ( Without it or without secure supply lines , guerrillas might last a fortnight or so before their own food resources ran out , for there are strict limits to the weight of rations they can expect to carry with them . ) |
| 29 | They issue an er they issue an annuity , which is erm er if you 're not sure what an annuity is , this is a temporary annuity , and they might say in the case of Miss they might say well what about a ten year annuity ? |
| 30 | Erm and the way this is most often shown like the the th type of convergency they do is that they erm change their vocal intensity to match that of the other person and their pause length is made the same . |