Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , assuming the properties are significant assets , a full investigation of title is to be preferred to either reliance upon a certificate from the vendor 's solicitors that the vendor has a good and marketable title ( since certificates of title are qualified and their benefit depends upon the status of the firm of solicitors providing them ) or reliance upon warranties and indemnities alone since the purchaser would rather have problems disclosed before the purchase than have to rely upon a right to sue under warranties which will be subject to general limitations . |
| 2 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 3 | Enormous mossy roofs of houses awaited them , and stables , sheepfolds , barns . |
| 4 | And what sort of activities do they actually engage in ? |
| 5 | Anglian Water Authority refused to attend the meeting of residents in Oakham because of rules preventing them discussing matters that might depress the share price during privatisation , and because there was little information available . |
| 6 | This rent in the tribal fabric was torn wider by Dr Elijah White , Superintendent of Indian Affairs , who presented the Nez Perce with a set of rules to govern them , and demanded that they appoint a head chief . |
| 7 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 8 | If they get there the men plot all kinds of strategies to get them out of such posts . |
| 9 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 10 | Non-abusing parents — mainly women — in the majority of cases stated they had no prior knowledge of untoward sexual behaviour prior to investigation . |
| 11 | It 'll take us a couple of hours to reach them , and at least twice as long on the return , plus whatever time we have to spend getting the patient stable enough to move . |
| 12 | What sort of hours did they have ? |
| 13 | A warning system of whistles tells them when soldiers enter the camp . |
| 14 | First , he advises the user of accounts to read them backwards . |
| 15 | She recognizes cultural and race differences in these patterns , and acknowledges the political limits of programmes to change them . |
| 16 | Only in the case of skills do they actually list what they think are the appropriate elements of learning . |
| 17 | It could be useful when we get the usual clutch of nutters claiming they 're the Whistler . |
| 18 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 19 | He did not need to look at the single shelf of books to know they would have titles like A Pilot 's War Memoirs or Regiments of the Burma Campaign . |
| 20 | Noctuid moths are eaten by bats , and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger . |
| 21 | What sort of relationships did they all have outside performing hours ? |
| 22 | The figs themselves are hardly bigger than acorns , but there are huge quantities of them and all kinds of animals find them irresistible . |
| 23 | What do questions normally start with what sort of words do they start with ? |
| 24 | Meanwhile , both sides were bringing up more and more artillery pieces and vast numbers of shells to feed them : the pattern of Verdun was repeating itself . |
| 25 | Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win . |
| 26 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 27 | The abundance of alkanes makes them particularly attractive starting materials for industrial processes . |
| 28 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 29 | Competitors battled valiantly throughout the afternoon with plenty of supporters to cheer them on . |
| 30 | When this is the case , pre-meeting briefing of supporters to get them to ask the right questions ( ones that you can answer well ) and to t ring in relevant information and viewpoints is essential . |