Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 2 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 3 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 4 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 5 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 6 | He entered her fiercely , her body and all her senses filled with him until , as before , the slumbering embers of the fire he had lit last night now blazed again , the raging flames consuming them both . |
| 7 | This sudden use of low notes gives them prominence and unusual power . |
| 8 | any new constitutional arrangement must provide what the 1920 Government of Ireland Act tragically failed to achieve : tough guarantees of basic rights for the minority as well as for the majority community , together with accessible and representative institutions to enforce them . |
| 9 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 10 | It is only a matter or time before they die … and there are few new sapling in these machine-cut hedges to replace them , even if farmers wanted them . |
| 11 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 12 | Both types of classification are useful in defining translation problems and in justifying specific strategies to overcome them . |
| 13 | In reply the Namibian authorities stated they could not grant a licence as the islands were South African territory , thus indirectly providing the information required ! |
| 14 | The local coast rescue team used ropes to pull them away from danger after the alarm was raised . |
| 15 | US forces used loudhailers to urge them to surrender amid intermittent explosions of gun and cannon fire . |
| 16 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 17 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 18 | There was a rather sickening , glutinous sound as the eyes moved , the sort of sound you hear if someone with sore eyes rubs them too hard and they squelch . |
| 19 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 20 | ( 135 ) … raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them to decompose into their elements ( or oxidize if they are heated in air ) … |
| 21 | In contemporary English neither *Most enzymes can not make a reaction to occur nor * Raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them decompose into their elements are possible . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Labour and Tory Euro-MPs were incensed by the suggestion and Labour front-benchers said they will block the bill when it returns to the Commons next Monday until they receive clarification from the Government of its intentions . |
| 23 | It can help to identify problems with clarity , and find specific remedies to meet them . |
| 24 | New regulations for setting up political parties required them to register with the government for a year , have at least five elected office holders , and own property of more than 10,000,000 New Taiwan dollars . |
| 25 | LAMP works with the tribal groups to help them revive their culture , languages and art forms , and to be aware of their rights . |
| 26 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 27 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 28 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 29 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 30 | The political implication is that blacks should be self-assertive and proud of their black identity and not rely on well-meaning attempts to assimilate them into white society . |