Example sentences of "[noun] of they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of them as numbers on a tall , thin clockface may be useful , so first put a large leaf into the twelve o'clock position and then one at six o'clock . |
| 2 | This immediately puts the farmer on the defensive and reinforces the public 's perception of them as a complaining , dissatisfied group . |
| 3 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 4 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 5 | These , so MacDonald and Snowden told their colleagues , must amount to £25–30 millions , the bulk of them to be found out of unemployment charges … only reductions in unemployment payments would satisfy the opposition and resolve the crisis ; yet this would at the same time betray the hopes of the party 's supporters and probably split the party itself … |
| 6 | They live only in warm parts of the world , the bulk of them in the tropics . |
| 7 | ToolChest will be widely distributed initially to some 25,000 ISVs and end-user software developers , the bulk of them from Sun and SunSoft rosters , the rest from Unix International . |
| 8 | I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it . |
| 9 | By this time , the Magdalene , the Virgin and others of those closest to Jesus had disappeared , and there is no further mention of them in scriptural accounts . |
| 10 | There is no mention of them in any movement order . |
| 11 | For it follows from this distinction that we see only the appearances of things , images of them in our minds , not the things themselves , ‘ so that , for aught we know , all we see , hear , and feel , may be only phantom and vain chimera , and not at all agree with the real things ’ . |
| 12 | It was the home last year of the most famous crop circle complex of them at all — the series of circles interconnected by straight pathways and curious ‘ key ’ -shaped elements as featured in the newspapers around the world . |
| 13 | Nor were they altogether at ease in the neighbourhood , for though there was no reason to suppose that the verderers would return in search of them after their escape — after all why should they suppose the children would return to the very spot where they had been captured ? — the shock of the moment when Michael 's voice had spoken to them out of the darkness still hung about the place . |
| 14 | For a time , soldiers in Ulster were denied the protection of armoured personnel carriers because pictures of them on television and in the press would remind people of the Russian tanks which overran Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | We also collected pictures of them on cigarette-cards . |
| 16 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 17 | ‘ I got some pictures of them at home . |
| 18 | When learning the names of objects , have the objects or pictures of them before you , so that you associate the word you are learning with the object rather than through translation . |
| 19 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 20 | A coachload of them from Comerbourne . ’ |
| 21 | Microwave detectors have recently revealed the presence of organic molecules in interstellar space , and optical spectra show traces of them in comets . |
| 22 | They were so close now he could feel the wind of them on the back of his neck . |
| 23 | I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are . |
| 24 | It is clear that the simple conception of them as a burden will not do , in view of their roles as consumers , producers and suppliers of services . |
| 25 | On Sept. 6 the three Baltic Foreign Ministers , A. Saudargas ( Lithuania ) , Janis Jurkans ( Latvia ) and Lennart Merri ( Estonia ) , went to Brussels to present a request for associate membership of the European Communities ( EC ) , which had already formally stated its recognition of them as independent states . |
| 26 | provide an opportunity for the debriefing of students , discussing both the work supervisor 's and tutor 's assessment of them on an individual basis . |
| 27 | His energies were never enormous , but limited though they were , he used a large part of them outside the business . |
| 28 | The University accepts no liability for loss arising from the failure of electricity , heating systems , water supplies , fire , flooding or for any other cause beyond its reasonable control which may cause the University 's premises or part of them to be temporarily closed or the booking to be interrupted , interfered with or cancelled . |
| 29 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 30 | The conflict which characterizes our everyday feelings usually causes part of them to be inhibited or suppressed ; in contrast poetry and the other arts ‘ spring from and perpetuate hours in the lives of exceptional people , when their control and command of experience is at its highest ’ ( Richards 1967 : 22 ) . |