Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take long for engineers to realise they could use more than one microphone , and ‘ balance ’ the music internally . |
| 2 | And when the law actually penalises people who inflict punishment outside the law through sheer frustration with its inadequacies , has not the time come for judges to realise they are dealing with real-world situations and sentence accordingly ? |
| 3 | And what sort of activities do they actually engage in ? |
| 4 | Non-abusing parents — mainly women — in the majority of cases stated they had no prior knowledge of untoward sexual behaviour prior to investigation . |
| 5 | What sort of hours did they have ? |
| 6 | Only in the case of skills do they actually list what they think are the appropriate elements of learning . |
| 7 | It could be useful when we get the usual clutch of nutters claiming they 're the Whistler . |
| 8 | He did not need to look at the single shelf of books to know they would have titles like A Pilot 's War Memoirs or Regiments of the Burma Campaign . |
| 9 | What sort of relationships did they all have outside performing hours ? |
| 10 | What do questions normally start with what sort of words do they start with ? |
| 11 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 12 | What sort of errors do they make ? |
| 13 | What sort of countries did they come from and what sort of life did they lead ? |
| 14 | According to the pre-Budget survey carried out by System 3 for the accountancy firm Ernst & Young , 77 per cent of companies believe they are well placed to lead the country out of recession although most do not feel that the economy has embarked on recovery . |
| 15 | There is also a slight improvement on the jobs front with 30 p.c. of directors saying they expect to recruit more compared with 25 p.c. in the earlier survey . |
| 16 | There was disappointing news for advertisers spending heavily on pre-Christmas promotions , with only six per cent of parents saying they were influenced . |
| 17 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 18 | So we 've done our materials , let's do our what sort of buildings did they make . |
| 19 | Consider three facts , arbitrarily chosen — half of all carers are over 65 ; 80 per cent of carers say they had no choice but to become carers ; and for one person in a hundred residential care is vital . |
| 20 | What sort of films did they show ? |
| 21 | What sort of films did they show ? |
| 22 | When they get ill , what sort of illnesses do they get ? |
| 23 | What kind of workers do they already have ? |
| 24 | Nevertheless , when asked about the way the societies sold insurance , 49 per cent of customers said they trusted their society to sell them only those products and services which were in the customers ' best interests . |
| 25 | And what what sort of powers do they people have er when problems like that arise ? |
| 26 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 27 | In the early 1900s buyers of firms guessed they could raise cash flows through economies of scale and by limiting competition . |
| 28 | What kind of feelings do they get from the ad — cheerful , serious , sad , confident ? … |
| 29 | A quarter of non-executives believed they should have the last word on mergers ( 10% of chief executives agreed ) and a fifth ( compared with 3% of the bosses ) thought they should approve major borrowings and loans . |
| 30 | 51% of managers said they were playing it safe and upgrading their current central processing system , 29% said they are sticking with what they already have whilst some 16% said they would be downsizing to a mid-range system . |