Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb base] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 2 | Both teachers keep on their desks , beside the National Curriculum ring binders , the registers and all the other tedious impedimenta of a teacher 's working life , a pile of books of poems , which they use for short sections of time throughout the day . |
| 3 | It is not impossible that nationalism will decline with the decline of the nation-state , without which being English or Irish or Jewish , or a combination of all these , is only one way in which people describe their identity among the many others which they use for this purpose , as occasion demands . |
| 4 | The price at which they bid for these bills determines the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 5 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 6 | This project aims to explore what teachers implementing the programmes assume about the way children learn , how they interpret the differences among their pupils ( in the new atmosphere which emphasises ‘ attainment targets ’ ) and the ways in which they cater for those differences . |
| 7 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 8 | The explanations which they offer for continuing peasant unrest , however , run counter to important aspects of the Soviet explanation . |
| 9 | The shareholders could also be passive because the manager is doing precisely what they require for high returns on that money . |
| 10 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 11 | see what they say for ten minutes . |
| 12 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 13 | That 's all the more reason why you should not be cutting their budget below what they need for next year . |