Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often , the loss of these senses results in older people being treated as if they were mentally impaired , with people talking to them as if they were slightly silly , or as if they had reverted to infancy . |
| 2 | Bitches are easier to live with , except for when they come into season , which must be endured . |
| 3 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 4 | But also they would probably have the men working harder than before & they may be more popular . |
| 5 | the Rumbelows cup , I said you said that without when they do n't win the league you say ah , its only the league . |
| 6 | the Rumbelows cup , I said you said that without when they do n't win the league you say ah , its only the league . |
| 7 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 8 | And as if they knew it they sent another flare up into the sky , so that it glowed bright and cheerful as a street lamp above his path of retreat . |
| 9 | Section 14(1) states that the memorandum and articles of association bind the company and the members as though signed and sealed by each member , and as if they contained covenants by each member to observe their provisions . |
| 10 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |
| 11 | And for because they see not in the church the shining pompe and pleasant variety ( as they thought it ) of painted clothes , candlesticks , images , altars , lampes , tapers , they say , as good to go into the barne . |
| 12 | In its place , the government is to set up a " new wide ranging review " of how local authorities could help clear up polluted sites , and of whether they had adequate powers and finances to carry out the task . |
| 13 | This is not the focus of these notebooks , and in that they are very different from The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State . |
| 14 | ‘ It just remained for them to find happiness — and in that they failed . ’ |
| 15 | As the election approached , voters ' awareness of opinion polls became less dependent upon their interest in politics and on whether they read the highbrow press rather than the tabloids . |
| 16 | So can I speak to and to if they 're here ? |
| 17 | ‘ Away with the atheists ’ , he cries out , not as if the words applied to Christians but as if they applied to pagans . |
| 18 | That is , it is not a matter of switching them off , but of whether they should be switched on either initially or again after suitable tests have been carried out . |
| 19 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 20 | Labour Members have changed their minds and their policies on Europe at least seven times , but in that they still lag behind the changes of mind of their leader . |
| 21 | Will he confirm that the inquiry will be wide ranging and will pay close attention not only to the environmental impact of the proposed lines but to whether they are needed at all for the national grid to meet its licence standards ? |
| 22 | His quarrel with the British was not about whether dominion status was an adequate offer , but over whether they were sincere in making it , and it was only when he concluded , in 1919 , that they were not , that he launched mass non-co-operation to get it . |
| 23 | exactly but because of that they 're playing the ball through the Forest er midfield and they are looking a lot better side . |
| 24 | Overheats and it would melt , so because of that they put a little protector thing on to cut out a thermal cut out to stop the current flowing |
| 25 | He was n't just pontificating , he was n't just starting out things he thought about , he and and , ideas that had come into his head , he spoke as one who had authority and because of that they heard him . |
| 26 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 27 | Clearly , conscious processes are central to an individual 's own experience , but most of us remain neutral as to whether they are central to cognitive processes given that many , if not most , of these are not conscious . |
| 28 | Their utilitarian contribution to our welfare should not , in other words , be our criterion as to whether they survive or not . |
| 29 | Each pie chart shows the proportion of axes found in three areas , classified as to whether they came from the south Downs , Wessex , East Anglia or other mines ( after Craddock et al , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | Women managers have a choice as to whether they wear trousers or a skirt . |