Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you do n't know they were trainers or shoes say they were a white type |
| 3 | Not least in America , where else , where companies know they can pick and choose among executives desperate to work again . |
| 4 | Some home managers or owners say they do n't want to bother residents with this sort of thing . |
| 5 | Where sub-cultures exist they could weaken the hold of a dominant culture and may respond to change more readily . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If fleas or mites persist they can be easily dealt with by a fly spray . |
| 8 | The man ran off towards Banbury railway station , where police say they later found a weapon hidden in the men 's toilet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The subject under scrutiny in the 1990/91 survey was exporting to Japan and in particular the barriers that companies felt they faced in either entering the Japanese market or expanding their level of existing business . |
| 11 | Although DNs said they applied compression bandages to 73 per cent of affected limbs , 35 per cent of bandages used were inadequate to reverse the effects of chronic venous insufficiency . |
| 12 | And that 's something that christians believe they have over all other faiths , that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ . |
| 13 | There can be a sharp discrepancy between the degree of freedom and dignity that workers believe they deserve and the control that employers think is necessary for their authority to be maintained . |
| 14 | But even allowing for this , current users of credit cards were much more likely than non-users to say they are easy to understand and use , convenient and make shopping simple ; and more likely to say that they encourage people to spend too much . |
| 15 | " Kraken " is an old Norse word used to describe giant sea creatures that mariners reported they had seen . |
| 16 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 17 | Maybe the single parent is seen as somehow highlighting the cracks that couples think they 've covered over . |
| 18 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 19 | But in this connection it is worth noting here that we found women even more likely than men to say they would prefer to pay extra for credit insurance , against the risk of inability to repay : credit insurance is discussed in the section immediately following this . |
| 20 | ‘ I think women probably want sex far more often than men think they do . |
| 21 | The despair is the fact that publishers feel they can no longer sell hardback fiction and biography , because of the very high price at which it 's published . |
| 22 | In the area of questioning , it may be that boys assume they know the answers because in society men have traditionally taken the lead and are seen in positions of authority and superiority . |
| 23 | In this context , the term inquisitorial seems to mean that chairs feel they have the freedom to investigate cases and elicit the information they think they need in order to get to the truth of the situation , rather than to choose between competing arguments . |
| 24 | Fragmented evidence suggests that questions about married women 's reasons for taking jobs tap the normative tip of the iceberg — that women say they work for the money because this is the socially acceptable reason . |
| 25 | they organized their own child care practices , all the things that women say they 're fighting for today , has actually been done before , and done very successfully . |
| 26 | This could lead to suspicion : two people complained that colleagues thought they might ‘ over-identify ’ and therefore lack objectivity . |
| 27 | If prisoners feel they are treated as less than human , without normal instincts of tenderness or capacity for pain , they react as if that is the case . |
| 28 | And experts fear they may never be seen by the public . |
| 29 | And experts fear they may never be seen by the public . |
| 30 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |