Example sentences of "of they [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 2 | The newspaper group plans to shed 33 jobs , about 25 of them through compulsory redundancy , leaving it with 400 staff to service the Daily and Sunday Telegraph . |
| 3 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 4 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 5 | Dentists claim that Government plans to cut their NHS fees will force most if not all of them into private practice . |
| 6 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 7 | He recalled that he had led the Party for thirteen years , nearly eight of them as Prime Minister . |
| 8 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 9 | At one moment we shall be talking in terms of billions of years and billions of light years ; at the next we shall focus on events that are of importance for only billionths of a second involving particles so small that it is misleading to think of them as material objects . |
| 10 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 11 | More than 50 women work at Long Lartin prison near Evesham in Worcestershire , 17 of them as uniformed prison officers . |
| 12 | Braudel himself seems to think of them as brief episodes without significant consequences . |
| 13 | On Sept. 6 the three Baltic Foreign Ministers , A. Saudargas ( Lithuania ) , Janis Jurkans ( Latvia ) and Lennart Merri ( Estonia ) , went to Brussels to present a request for associate membership of the European Communities ( EC ) , which had already formally stated its recognition of them as independent states . |
| 14 | After a time we come to think of them as old friends . ’ |
| 15 | It allows the physical pieces of paper passed around an office to be replaced by electronic images — you can think of them as electronic photographs of the paper pages . |
| 16 | a way of allowing readers to focus just on the appearance of logical objects , but authors to be aware of them as structural entities . |
| 17 | The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized . |
| 18 | We will discuss some of them at various points in this book . |
| 19 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 20 | Two of them at New Drove are downstairs and one is an upstairs . |
| 21 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |
| 22 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 23 | There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside . |
| 24 | but I 'd never put any of them at Right Back again , Or buy somebody . |
| 25 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 26 | The six sections of that car were allocated to twelve assorted actors and crew , most of them at that point reading , talking or fast asleep . |
| 27 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 28 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 29 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 30 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |