Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 2 | Football thrives on scandal , it is a highly competitive game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players , sudden and often tragic decline in the lives of those whose youth or skills desert them , and the extremes of pain and passion to those who follow the game . |
| 3 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
| 4 | This simply means that meaning shared by words or signs allows them to be located close together in the system which allows them to be identified internally . |
| 5 | The infamous Stanford Prison study experiment ( Haney et al. , 1973 ) , which had to be stopped because students in role as either prison warders or prisoners forgot they were in role , is powerful evidence of this possibility . |
| 6 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 7 | Article headings will be set in Times 14pt Bold to give them a bit of impact while headings within the text , cross or subheads to give them their proper name , will be in 10pt Helvetica Bold . |
| 8 | If you do n't know they were trainers or shoes say they were a white type |
| 9 | Not least in America , where else , where companies know they can pick and choose among executives desperate to work again . |
| 10 | In several primary schools children are working together at ‘ turtle geometry ’ projects in which they set their own goals and spend several days or weeks achieving them . |
| 11 | Not infrequently two or more adjacent cells may become confluent owing to the atrophy of the vein or veins separating them . |
| 12 | Some home managers or owners say they do n't want to bother residents with this sort of thing . |
| 13 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 14 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |
| 15 | Guarantees are , however , only as good as the people or businesses giving them . |
| 16 | Where sub-cultures exist they could weaken the hold of a dominant culture and may respond to change more readily . |
| 17 | The notion of champions is based on the false belief that protection from competition leads to long-term strength , but , as one economist has shown , where rivals cluster they are forced to innovate and compete most . |
| 18 | They have to get through it without officers or sergeants to guide them |
| 19 | In LDCs in general , the poor are disadvantaged because they have low levels of education and training and therefore have few skills or qualifications to help them . |
| 20 | In some of the odes , this compositional method has a wayward look , perhaps leaving the modern reader with the suspicion that the poem is structurally flawed.1 It is not particularly troublesome in " Diffugere nives " ; even so , there are throughout the poem points at which a reader needs to take connections on trust , or ventures to read them into the text , because they are not foregrounded or overtly articulated . |
| 21 | The scheme will be targeted at 25–35 year-old chemical engineers or chemists to encourage them to take up the available lecturing academic posts and to carry out teaching and research on environmental issues . |
| 22 | If fleas or mites persist they can be easily dealt with by a fly spray . |
| 23 | But in the 1980s career-swaps became the fastgrowth area , fuelled , VGA executive director Susan Bloch says , by ‘ people who trained as engineers , lawyers or dentists — perhaps because their parents or teachers wanted them to — and loathed it ’ . |
| 24 | Some are resorting to alcohol or cigarettes to help them overcome work pressures . |
| 25 | The resentment arose from the concentration of high-risk categories in particular occupations and the reluctance of insurance companies or societies to include them — a perfect example of cream skimming and adverse selection , discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 26 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 27 | The man ran off towards Banbury railway station , where police say they later found a weapon hidden in the men 's toilet . |
| 28 | No dogs or vehicles to help them . |
| 29 | Unlike the hostels for the homeless , places of last resort where inmates feel treated as if they have no rights , the refuge is a place of first resort , where women learn they have rights and how to exercise them . |
| 30 | Birds of prey , or raptors to give them an alternative group name , come in many sizes . |