Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 They are … the people whose position and activities enable them to fuse and mediate both neighbourhood involvement and social services care …
2 The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them .
3 But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best .
4 The National Curriculum 's aims — to give pupils knowledge , understanding , skills and attitudes to equip them for the responsibilities and challenges of adult life and tomorrow 's world — will be widely supported .
5 Caulker had been deeply concerned ( and I am convinced rightly so ) that the conference concentrated its time and discussion on the provision of sophisticated and expensive technology for developing countries , ignoring the need to lay foundations in schools for fundamental growth of knowledge , skills and attitudes to understand them .
6 But the studio paid out for fringe benefits including personal trainers and chauffeurs to keep them happy .
7 ( iii ) Suppose I do not understand Chinese , but , solely on the basis of the shapes of the letters , and rules connecting them merely as shapes , do the right things .
8 In Europe , trams were seen as ‘ completely classless ’ , with everyone from bank managers and labourers using them .
9 These forms of sexuality were dependent on specific codes and rituals to give them meaning .
10 And experts fear they may never be seen by the public .
11 And experts fear they may never be seen by the public .
12 FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects .
13 ) A regularity audit which verifies that expenditure has been incurred on approved services and in accordance with statutory and other regulations and authorities governing them ( sometimes called the ‘ Compliance Audit ’ ) .
14 This Keynesian process of governments pumping up demand for commodities has disadvantages : government interest payments grow and attempts to finance them by taxation tend eventually to threaten profits .
15 They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station .
16 At the same time , it draws from each of these approaches , and attempts to integrate them : Hartmann 's ( 1981 ) essay on the subject is appropriately entitled ‘ The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism ’ .
17 Instead Johnson ( 1972 ) looks outside the professions and attempts to understand them in terms of their sources and use of power and authority .
18 Education has expanded very significantly , thus giving a much greater number of people information and skills to assist them in improving their living standards .
19 The course is designed ‘ to equip pupils with the knowledge and skills to help them understand the economic aspects of their own lives and the world in which they live ’ .
20 ‘ This year I 'm starting a programme for managers , supervisors and operators to keep them up-to-date with environmental improvement progress , ’ said 30-year-old Mike .
21 What skills and strategies do they employ and what , if any , are the implications for schools ?
22 Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again .
23 Anti-fascists argued that whoever was to blame for the violence , the police and courts treated them more harshly , and the National Council for Civil Liberties certainly produced reliable testimony to back up those claims .
24 Indeed , the Aboriginal communities have been so disenfranchised in the past that giving them a say in decisions and policies affecting them is seen as a key element in improving their health .
25 Transformations that leave shape and size unaltered are obviously the most basic , and geometers call them isometries .
26 The laws , regulations , and guidelines governing them
27 Most parents of children at poorer schools already know about those schools , though they do not have the information to confront the governors , teachers and heads to urge them of the need to improve the school .
28 Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them .
29 Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them , and as I commented a little earlier to somebody I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven year old .
30 Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them .
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