Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | When Henry and Eleanor held their Christmas court at Chinon in 1172 whatever tensions there were between them remained hidden from public view . |
| 3 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 4 | A few scientists began to think in terms of ‘ Little Bangs ’ ; later , more of them began to wonder about white holes . |
| 5 | All of them seemed to have in common a cold dislike of children and a determination to do as little as possible for their inadequate wages . |
| 6 | It was crewed by amateur sailors and one of them says adjusting to ordinary life has been difficult . |
| 7 | It includes aid already promised ; debt relief that will deliver no new cash ; bilaterally-negotiated grants and credits , many of them tied to trade with particular ‘ donors ’ ( one man 's export subsidy is another 's development assistance ) ; and a variety of loan facilities that may not be drawn and which are , in fact , conditional on further reform . |
| 8 | Many of them refused to work on nuclear projects . |
| 9 | ‘ About half of them fail to comply with European standards . ’ |
| 10 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 11 | They are socially mobile , many of them having risen from working class backgrounds to new heights in the class structure . |
| 12 | Every year the Irish national broadcasting service , RTE , buys in a series of Radharc programmes and their high quality has ensured that a number of them have appeared on other national TV networks . |
| 13 | Whatever else , it is clear that a modernist representation would not accurately capture the organizational patterns of contemporary Japanese organization , which have served in the 1980s as if they were a very beacon of postmodernity , given the role that various representations of them have played in recent debates . |
| 14 | The team is weighing young children every month , and about 15 per cent of them have to go to intensive feeding , with high-energy milk to combat the symptoms of kwashiorkor . |
| 15 | The great majority of the children were recommended to the school because they presented severe management difficulties to teachers in mainstream schools and many of them experience a multiplicity of adversities in their personal lives A majority of children have intractable learning difficulties , and few of them have responded to conventional interventions by members of child guidance clinic teams or remedial services before admission . |
| 16 | Some 30pc of them have switched to Labour and around 8pc to the Tories . |