Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] they [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When children have not been warned that their parent is going to ignore them rather than shout at them the rate of their difficult behaviour may temporarily increase ( Sajwaj and Dillon 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Some local authorities , such as Torbay , that have within them a large number of second homes , from which they must derive some income because of the cost incurred in administering that situation , might like greater flexibility — such as that available under the rating and community charge systems . |
| 3 | To foster in pupils a love of literature , to encourage their awareness of its unique relationship to human experience and to promote in them a sense of excitement in the power and potential of language can be one of the greatest joys of the English teacher . |
| 4 | My senior staff have already addressed a meeting of Citizens Advice representatives in Edinburgh and explained to them the Council Tax legislation . |
| 5 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 6 | He was a quiet , wise , friendly man who ran his hall with a minimum of rules and regulations , treating undergraduates as adults and impressing on them the need for courtesy and consideration in their dealings with one another , and with the domestic staff . |
| 7 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 8 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 9 | It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire , including various forms of learning , while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells — no more than 20,000 neurons in all , arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal . |
| 10 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 11 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 12 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 13 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 14 | And we 've had one meeting be , between , just really detailed some of the , some of the issues that we find and focus on them a bit more . |
| 15 | These new measurements were counted in two series of twelve with their poles at noon and midnight , and to differentiate between them the terms ante meridiem and post meridiem ( ‘ am ’ and ‘ pm ’ ) were coined . |
| 16 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 17 | In an aggressive competitive world , stress levels are high , wearing down the weak and the wet and forcing upon them a proliferation of ailments and diseases with the consequential poor decisions and non-profitable returns . |
| 18 | A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff , and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia . |
| 19 | It is extraordinary that the Minister should take it into his head that he knows better than people in the museums world , and impose upon them a period that nobody asked for — indeed , everybody asked for the opposite . |
| 20 | The problems presented by the Hurufi heresy , which seems to have attracted the sultan himself , were more of a religious and social nature than a political one , and to deal with them the Mufti was called in . |
| 21 | A hundred years of missionary effort had failed utterly ; its only effect had been to confirm the Abyssinians in their attachment to their ancient faith and to sow in them the seeds of xenophobia . |
| 22 | I would take the train down the line where they would have to change at some junction and plead with them the cause of the Liverpool seamen . |
| 23 | It is a polled breed , closely related to the Swedish Mountain and the North Finnish and sharing with them the white colour-pointed coat cline . |
| 24 | If you made it and laid down them the the man that was doing it , he 'd only to lift that and give it a twine and on to the next . |
| 25 | But I believe we can take the present collection of businesses and produce from them a very profitable bank . ’ |
| 26 | But in the nature of things … " and here he twisted his red lips to signal and to share with them the perspectives of this operation " certain approaches have to be tentative and even apparently , ad hoc . |
| 27 | The adviser in charge of the inspection shall meet the head and teaching staff and discuss with them the aim of the inspection . |
| 28 | Nearly 300 years ago , French aristocratic refugee settlers founded New Orleans as a trading post and brought with them a taste for good food and classic cooking . |
| 29 | If people were making demands on him for what he owed them , he should assemble them and lay before them a fair statement of his past transactions , of his present condition and his future prospects . |
| 30 | Startled , she looked up at him , met his eyes , and saw in them a searching expression that made her heart jerk in astonishment . |