Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The assumption that they are not neglected , and that cultural values ensure they will be cared for adequately , has been challenged by Norman . |
| 6 | To justify their failure to grant compensation , French authorities argue they could have simply stopped ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ from leaving the country by invoking the 1941 Vichy law , which makes no provision for compensation . |
| 7 | Folklore has it that any economic revival starts in the housing market as homeowners and would-be homeowners decide they can put off moving or buying no longer . |
| 8 | They did not ever smile — but you could tell that when their empty eyes opened they were alive . |
| 9 | In male prisons , while homosexual relationships exist they are less likely to be tolerated if they involve truly loving feelings . |
| 10 | British Waterways believe they could use other canal networks , via Oxford and Milton Keynes , to move Welsh water to the south east of England , avoiding future drought . |
| 11 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 12 | six o'clock seems to be a nice time , Scottish Homes said they would lay on coffee and |
| 13 | But if English speakers hear they can usually recognise this as ‘ my turn ’ and not ‘ might earn ’ . |
| 14 | At a meeting with the consortium more than a week ago , Caledonian directors said they would help only if they were given a controlling interest in the pit . |
| 15 | He says Ali 's mind is one hundred per cent , his motor functions like they should be . |
| 16 | British businessmen feel they have only just restored their right to manage after a hard-won showdown with organised labour . |
| 17 | Agony aunt Claire Rayner said last night : ‘ People are often despairing — especially in the cases of offspring whose ageing parents fear they will not be properly looked after when they have gone . |
| 18 | What semantic functions do they perform ( manner , place , direction , time , degree , etc ) ? |
| 19 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 20 | West German officials said they hoped similar arrangements could be made . |
| 21 | West German officials said they understood the trains would be sealed from the inside , and would take roundabout routes to evade jumpers-on . |
| 22 | She was the target of a bomb attack during her visit and French officials said they suspected Iraqi government agents . |
| 23 | To defuse British anger , the hardline leader of the Bosnian Serbs , Radovan Karadzic , said he would agree to UN monitoring of Serbian planes to prove they were not involved . |
| 24 | British officials say they believe this conference will not be obsessed with South Africa , as previous meetings have been . |
| 25 | Social workers decided they would be safe with their 23-year-old unmarried mother . |
| 26 | Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order . |
| 27 | The social workers say they have a duty to prepare the seventeen year old for independent life as an adult . |
| 28 | Informed sources say they started shopping it around last week through Goldman Sachs . |
| 29 | British sources say they already have the potential power-unit and are half-convinced that the French may already be quite advanced in the aero-dynamics of the bodyshell . |
| 30 | Some of the refugees originally refused to touch East German territory again , but were reassured when two of the West German diplomats said they would accompany the train , to ensure that the rules were followed . |