Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Or them ones at the shops , I catch you in there I 'll kill you .
2 I think the reason why is that I never actually told the community or my comrades about the film — if I had there would probably have been an informer somewhere . ’
3 The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed .
4 Such an invitation should give an indication of what pictures could be taken or which parts of the event lend themselves to photographs .
5 But the role of the TCR genes or their products in the earlier DN to DP transition is uncertain .
6 A role for bacteria or their products in the aetiology and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease was suggested over 50 years ago but still remains unproven .
7 That can not have pleased the Megarians or their daughter-cities in the region , like Byzantium .
8 While there was , from the platform , evidence of considerable care and attention being paid to the potential physical hazards of the industry , little or nothing was said by the industry 's speakers about the effects of chemicals or their by-products on the environment .
9 The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' .
10 avoid the practice of giving gifts or commercial incentives to prospective pupils or their parents with the intention of inducing them to enrol and to take account of the possible damage to pupils in other educational establishments as a result of marketing activities .
11 Others in Vitebsk suspected that gold seized would not go to the Volga famine relief but into the Bolsheviks ' pockets or their mouths in the shape of much-fancied gold teeth .
12 Note that there is no reason for anyone to restrain their thoughts or their reflections on the reasons which apply to the case , nor are they necessarily debarred from criticising the arbitrator for having ignored certain reasons or for having been mistaken about their significance .
13 Individuals may be identified by their handwriting , or their answers to the range of questions may serve to point clearly in their direction .
14 Other life insurers sought to increase their distribution networks , either increasing their branches or their personnel in a variety of ways in order to market their products in increasingly competitive environments .
15 The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land .
16 Crevasses claim lives and the majority of crevasse deaths happen to those who travel on glaciers unroped , closing their eyes or their minds to the risks .
17 Any person who believes that his or her rights under the Convention have been infringed by a court ruling or an administrative act , and who has exhausted all the possibilities of redress in the British courts may complain to Strasbourg .
18 If effective civil and political citizenship were to be enjoyed in Britain , then the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government and the extraordinarily clumsy device of having to appeal for the protection of his or her rights to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg .
19 Owing to the provisions of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland and Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Brown [ 1981 ] AC 487 it would be prudent to obtain the consent to the conveyance from any other occupier of the matrimonial home aged 18 years or more , coupled with confirmation from such occupier that he or she is agreeable to the rights of the mortgagee taking priority over his or her rights in the property or its proceeds of sale .
20 A person who is quickly back on his or her feet after a serious blow .
21 Sooner or later , if she ever got her reason back , she would realise that her daughter had resigned from this German job six weeks before the accident , that she had n't breathed a word to her aunt or her friends about the possibility of her returning to Europe .
22 But if not , how has her work in algal taxono or her dives into the Galapagos Rift prepared her as an expert on the moving business ?
23 This was as much on the ancient principle of ‘ to the victor , the spoils ’ , as in any fear that the new occupant would carry his or her prejudices into the chair .
24 The usual procedure was for sympathetic teachers to provide branches in their areas with lists of school-leavers each of whom was then interviewed at home with his or her parents by a ‘ visitor ’ who discussed the general employment situation with them , urging the importance of continued education and inviting the parents to make a formal application to the committee for assistance .
25 They result from an observer 's use of his or her senses at a particular place and time .
26 References to authorities and to documents , to which counsel intends to refer in his or her submissions to the court , should be annexed to the skeleton arguments .
27 The role of the lecturer was to act as a channel of communication between company and college , to explain each to the other , to organise and perhaps deliver bespoke short courses , and to contribute his or her skills to the company .
28 The professional transplants his or her skills to the parents but still retains control of the decision-making process .
29 It was typical of his self-absorption that he displayed no curiosity about her sudden haste to return to her apartment or her plans for the evening and weekend .
30 This is the way that major orchestras get their conductors — a young conductor earns his or her spurs in a small orchestra or opera house , only to be hired away by a larger one .
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