Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duffer , who celebrated her 100th birthday last week in lavish style , also seems to think that CAPTAIN AMERICA were forced to change their name to C&A after Marvel Comics sued them , only to be injuncted by the clothes store and forced to change their name again . |
| 2 | The remarkable persistence of the wasp 's performance serves also to remind us that most other animals have contingency plans to extricate them from such behavioural culs-de-sac . |
| 3 | School board superintendents complained they had to hire the buddies , allies and nephews of board members . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the hospital says it 's only got 6 intensive care beds and in the winter emergency accident and chest cases fill them up . |
| 5 | It has been shown to thrive on a diet of soluble uranium ions converting them into solid waste and thereby making them easier to remove . |
| 6 | Computer Associates calls them ‘ pages ’ , but essentially multi-dimensional calculations and linked spreadsheets are all on the menu . |
| 7 | If they do n't contain a waterproof membrane such as Gore-Tex or Sympatex , you can obtain spray-on products to give them a water-repellent finish . |
| 8 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 9 | but they did n't explode , so the RAF lads said they were made of macaroni . |
| 10 | It was supposed to be like going Over the Top , but it felt more like a gang of reluctant schoolboys setting out on a cross-country run with only the prospect of a quick smoke round the back of the bike sheds to sustain them . |
| 11 | It is a bit like taking a poll of general election candidates asking them to state in public whether they think that they will win . |
| 12 | A questionnaire is being sent to all local General Election candidates asking them their views on the subject . |
| 13 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 14 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 15 | Light rail supporters claim they are fast , clean , efficient and can reduce congestion . |
| 16 | If the amount of data to be passed is small , you may prefer to pass data to the CHAINed program by using the indirection operators to store them at known addresses . |
| 17 | Since 1892 , we at Bob Martin have been developing , improving , refining and perfecting our Flea Treatments , Wormers and Condition Tablets to make them the best you can get your paws on . |
| 18 | Our reductionist , analytical thinking attempts to form them , conceptually , into discrete linear pathways , but nature knows nothing of such superficial imaginings ! |
| 19 | Leyhill prison on the Gloucestershire Avon border is as far from the popular conception of a jail as you can get.Modern buildings cluster around borders boasting blooms that many public parks would be hard pressed to match.Leyhill is an open prison … the last port of call for inmates nearing the end of their sentences.A hundred prisoners work on the nearly forty acres of lawns , borders and market gardens.Their skills won them a silver medal at Chelsea for this display of garden design.And at Leyhill , they 've created a spectacular show … with drifts of brightly coloured pelargoniums competing for attention with giant cannas … and a fine show of roses.New borders are being created all the time … giving the prisoners an opportunity to express themselves and learn techniques that could help them go straight when they 're released : |
| 20 | The nature of the backward and forward linkages in many external development and investment programmes make them inappropriate , on their own , as a means of tackling the problems of DRAs . |
| 21 | It will take more than the prospect of weight savings to prompt them to abandon this safe method . |
| 22 | But Mr Garrett said others who have taken only the three-hour assessment are responding to pursuits despite force guidelines prohibiting them . |
| 23 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 24 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 25 | Both men pulled on the cowl hoods to prevent them seeing their abductors . |
| 26 | This would be achieved by formulating a convention on climate change , to include legally binding protocols on cutting emissions of gases which contributed to global warming , and provisions for industrialized countries to provide financial and technical assistance to Third-World countries to help them achieve this without forgoing the benefits of industrial development . |
| 27 | Mansfield breweries took them over now |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Germany 's employer , trade and industry associations said they had formed a committee to fight xenophobia , which is now said to be putting off foreigners from investing in the country 's impoverished East . |
| 29 | College officials said they could not recall any previous speaker receiving such an enthusiastic welcome . |
| 30 | We discovered later that a crowd of drop-outs had been living rough on the Towers , using local fishing boats to ferry them to and fro . |