Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other .
2 But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’
3 Moreover , his review took account of factors which were very different from those relevant to ‘ streamlining the planning machine ’ : the increasing pressure for public consultation and participation in the planning process , and the ‘ dissatisfaction on the part of applicants because they often do not understand why particular decisions have been made , or why it is necessary for what may seem small matters to be the concern of the planning machinery at all ’ .
4 So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism .
5 But , in the aggregate , they are unable to increase their holdings of bonds and they only succeed in driving up the price of bonds .
6 In addition , equities have a greater appeal to many groups of investors as they generally carry a higher expected rate of return .
7 Okay , it starts so what we 're talking there in text books you 'll find they define groups in terms of their structure and their composition and they 're the sorts of things that they usually pick out Okay , there 's a lot of work then on interaction in groups .
8 erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that
9 Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law .
10 I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way .
11 The pupils from Sutton gained from the experience of mixing with a wider range of pupils than they normally encounter .
12 The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned .
13 Let's look at the position of women once they actually get into the child care role and certainly the position of poor women erm the man is then the wage earner , the women then is relatively powerless .
14 One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place .
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