Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb base] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not least in America , where else , where companies know they can pick and choose among executives desperate to work again . |
| 2 | Where sub-cultures exist they could weaken the hold of a dominant culture and may respond to change more readily . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The man ran off towards Banbury railway station , where police say they later found a weapon hidden in the men 's toilet . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I think women probably want sex far more often than men think they do . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If misgivings persist they are not exactly moral . |
| 9 | If England lose they can still reach the finals as one of the best two second-placed teams in the three four-team European groups . |
| 10 | ‘ If Safeway succeed they could completely undermine the new Cornmill shopping centre due to open this August . |
| 11 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 12 | If relatives survive they would be great , great , grandchildren of General Maude . |
| 13 | Perhaps , if things improve they will go into industry , as I once did . |
| 14 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 15 | Even if paintings are unpopular or even if people think they are bad paintings for a while , they 're useful for art students . |
| 16 | Obviously assuming that his readers will be dealing with subjects to whom they are relative strangers , Labov points out some practical disadvantages of candid recording ; first of all , long-term access to a community is likely to be hindered if people think they are being spied on , and second , the quality of such recordings is often poor . |
| 17 | If people think they hear , , when they think listening to you , then what you 're talking about . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’ |
| 19 | But surely , if people feel they can produce something which will stand up to repeated inspection , one should expect only the very best . |
| 20 | I mean I , I , there is actually an argument for having one meeting , everybody knows when it is and where it is , and if people feel they 're being left out or not b getting informed they should make the case that I am |
| 21 | If users think they can run the same applications on Solaris , Destiny and Open Desktop then they 'll buy a desktop Unix client . |
| 22 | If sanctions continue they could affect the EMI Compact Disc worksa in Swindon … at the moment they export between ten and twenty thousand discs a month to America . |
| 23 | It follows that if teachers believe they are incompetent or impotent in these matters , they will accept and expect that the proper strategy is to pass on the problems to suitably qualified colleagues . |
| 24 | It is something which the learner craves even if teachers think they can do without it . |
| 25 | If pupils feel they want to smoke there they 'll have to stick to the bikesheds . |
| 26 | If voters say they want politicians to care , how do you show it — you ca n't suddenly burst into tears . |
| 27 | Unless companies change they simply wo n't attract the best , and so they will die . |
| 28 | ‘ Unless people prove they want the play-scheme and come to the meeting on Thursday night , we will have to cancel it this year . ’ |
| 29 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 30 | The German government is to close five Soviet built nuclear power reactors in what was East Germany because officials think they are very unsafe and too costly to adapt . |