Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of Britain 's 18,000 dentists say they will refuse to take any more NHS patients if the Government cuts subsidies . |
| 2 | Many of Britain 's 18,000 dentists say they will simply refuse to see any new NHS patients . |
| 3 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 4 | Thirteen housewives say they ‘ like ’ washing , fourteen ‘ do n't mind ’ it and thirteen ‘ dislike ’ or ‘ hate ’ it . |
| 5 | Four of the six schools said they would be prepared to take positive steps towards ‘ searching them out ’ . |
| 6 | Almost seven out of 10 directors say they have procedures for social workers who handle clients ' money . |
| 7 | After losing Piers behind a seven foot canvas and unable to negotiate an easy exit between pots , palettes , paints and general pandemonium , the three artists concluded they no longer has enough space . |
| 8 | Two out of three dentists said they had extracted teeth that they might have filled before the contract was introduced . |
| 9 | If elected , the three dissidents say they will continue to sit in the opposition as independents . |
| 10 | Kingston , whose coach Kevin Cadle watched Friday night 's semi-final , did not qualify for the tournament because they did not compete in the League last season although their form over the past three weeks suggests they will be front runners over the next seven months . |
| 11 | The three firms say they will demonstrate the stuff running on RS/6000s next year . |
| 12 | Three quarters said they had n't been consulted before a caution was given , and sixty two percent of our sample thought offenders should only be entitled to one caution no matter whether the crime was committed by an adult or juvenile . |
| 13 | Nadobenko , Gary Beneke of South Africa and John Charlesworth of the Britannia team broke clear on the circuit and with three laps left they were joined by Norwegian Ole Simensen . |
| 14 | Two out of three voters said they wished other candidates were available . |
| 15 | Only twice in their first 57 appearances did they take the stage without him . |
| 16 | • only 8% of women who had children in the last 5 years said they would prefer a hospital consultant to provide their antenatal care . |
| 17 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 18 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 19 | Often they lend as little as ten piasters knowing they will be able to take the borrower 's scrap of land , his house — and his wife and daughters too probably — when he fails to repay . " |
| 20 | And a colourful diversion for the county cricketers , who 've been told their clothes of many colours will remain for Sunday outings even though seven out of ten members said they do n't prefer them . |
| 21 | Eighteen of the 33 respondents said they would welcome training in educational methods and principles . |
| 22 | worth a pound off so they give you ten points do they every ? |
| 23 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 24 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 25 | One of the president 's earliest and most loyal supporters on the Hill says , privately , that those among his constituents who , until 1992 , had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 16 years think they have been tricked . |
| 26 | In short , there appeared to be a cutoff at five years , such that those with responsibility time spans of less than five years felt they needed a manager with a responsibility time span of more than five years . |
| 27 | MORE than four out of five Britons feel they are financially worse off than they were a year ago . |
| 28 | More than two out of every five Britons say they buy products on environmental grounds — over double the number who did so in 1988 . |
| 29 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 30 | By far the poorest cover was in Speyside where only one in five wives said they could deal with an emergency on their own . |