Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly afterwards officers smashed their way into Mrs Curran 's bungalow where they found the victims ' bodies in separate rooms . |
| 2 | However , the toxic effects of aluminium on fish are complex and , if the calcium content of the water is high , its ions are preferentially adsorbed on the gill surfaces where they block the absorption of aluminium ions and so reduce their impact ( Mason , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | These dramatic spectacles are caused by charged particles , which are accelerated in solar flares , being diverted towards the poles by the Earth 's magnetic field where they enter the upper atmosphere causing ionisation and producing light . |
| 4 | Reconnection takes place at X , converting closed field lines , c , into open field lines , o , which form a rotational field discontinuity where they cross the magnetopause ( dashed line ) . |
| 5 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 6 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 7 | The EP was ‘ brought in ’ in response to the teachers ' perception that they lacked the skills to manage George 's behaviour . |
| 8 | Many would-be claimants are so afraid of going into solicitors ' offices that they try the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau ( CAB ) first . |
| 9 | Another aspect of the debate on taxation and labour participation is the claim that taxation rates in the UK are higher in relation to those prevailing in other industrial countries , with the result that they encourage the professional and the well-paid to emigrate to other lower taxed countries . |
| 10 | As a rule , the politicians of the mainstream right fight each other with more zest than they do the Socialists . |
| 11 | Roughly speaking , chapters in the present alternate with chapters from earlier periods , cast in such different styles that they emphasize the novel 's formal discontinuity . |
| 12 | Trading Standards however important , and Trading Standards is very important , erm , when you 're getting down to erm , reductions in equipment and uniforms and men , then lives are at risk , it is really a matter of er , er , of , of for our fire fighters that they have the right equipment and the right uniform and when it actually comes down , you ca n't compare that to maybe reductions in Trading Standards . |
| 13 | Members of the senior management within the health service have The Northern Echo that they believe the merger question will crop up once the purchasing consortiums have begun operating . |
| 14 | But the King for prevention of offences may by proclamation admonish his subjects that they keep the laws , and do not offend them ; upon punishment to be inflicted by the law , & c . |
| 15 | Among our samples , for instance , 79 per cent of the spouses said at first interview that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home , compared with 36 per cent of the non-spouses . |
| 16 | ‘ did drive ’ Driving is usually proved by witness statements to the effect that they saw the defendant drive . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State should issue an instruction tonight to all magistrates to the effect that they have the power to remit the payment of the poll tax for anybody who can not afford to pay . |
| 18 | In the empire of the Tsars , the twin revolutions offered such a strikingly different alternative that they overshadowed the remarkable changes elsewhere — the disintegration of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires , and the appearance of a host of new States . |
| 19 | Portfolio controls were used intermittently through the 1970s , but have fallen out of favour in the 1980s and early 1990s with the recognition that they distort the workings of the financial system , and that methods of circumventing the controls exist ( see Hall 1983 ) . |
| 20 | If the city 's culture lies in its heritage , its great literary tradition — Wilde , Shaw , Joyce , Beckett , O'Casey and all that — then surely the celebrations must involve a recognition that they found the city less than congenial and got out as soon as they could ? |
| 21 | Even Jews who had been released from concentration camps on strict condition that they left the Fatherland immediately were obliged to pay for the round trip . |
| 22 | It was held that the sellers were in breach both of the condition that they had the right to sell the goods and also of the warranty of quiet possession . |
| 23 | DBMS are therefore expected to support multiple linked lists if they adopt the list processing method of file organisation . |
| 24 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 25 | The unlucky ones who did n't drown were eaten by crocodiles in the water , and by scorpions and snakes if they reached the shore . " |
| 26 | They want the thing to be sorted out properly in Brussels and they want the French authorities to be told in no uncertain terms that it 's their job to control the activities of their farmers . |
| 27 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense and they blamed the Finance Ministry 's favouritism towards industry for the plight — and the restiveness — of the peasantry . |
| 28 | ‘ There 'd be more enticement if they improved the food . ’ |
| 29 | They were also hoping by these means to avoid causing resentment at infringement of separate national sovereignties which would be a possible result if they enlisted the aid of the British government . |
| 30 | They could n't see the shepherd until they crossed the last rise but they could hear the sheepbells on the clear air . |