Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , they investigated , and apparently it was quite easy , because it was a very distinctive typeface , which they 'd only used on one machine . |
| 3 | Indeed , the term ‘ dramatic statement ’ , to which they become quite attached as the book proceeds , perhaps takes us too firmly in the direction of propositional knowledge translated into dramatic coding . |
| 4 | These sums were separate from the 128,300 million yen which they had already confessed to paying between 1987 and 1990 , and which had been revealed in July 1991 [ see p. 38342 ] . |
| 5 | In November 1989 the 300 remaining squatters in Amsterdam were evicted , amid serious disturbances , from the buildings which they had illegally occupied for many years . |
| 6 | Only with the development of factions and the growth of the party system did it come about that monarchs found themselves confronted , in Cabinet , by Ministers presenting a united front on matters on which they had previously deliberated in the absence of the monarch . |
| 7 | Today they give us a meagre amount of the cash which they had previously taken off us in the form of grant cutbacks , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Pressure on Pérez increased on June 11 , when the main opposition Social-Christian Party ( COPEI ) withdrew Humberto Calderón Berti , the Foreign Affairs Minister , and José Ignacio Moreno León , a Minister of State who was president of the Venezuelan Fund for Investment , from the " national unity " Cabinet which they had both joined on March 10 [ see pp. 38809-10 ] . |
| 9 | Some archaeologists , irrespective of their scepticism over Ivan Koltsov 's announcement , have expressed concern that Pravda should have shown a map of the underground areas , and that Koltsov publicly described seeing local boys playing with ancient gold goblets which they had supposedly found in the underground passages . |
| 10 | Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months . |
| 11 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 12 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 13 | The weather was fine and they were enjoying their walk when they came across the neglected remains of a large house which they had often seen in the distance from the pump-house . |
| 14 | In the case of the YCCC , the video workshop so inspired two of the members ( a husband and wife ) , that on returning to Yellow Creek they went out and bought a video which they have since used with great effect in their campaign . |
| 15 | The decision by Tesco and other groups campaigning to break the law to get their own way — which they have largely done as a result of the Government 's co-operation and collaboration — has made a serious dent in the turnover and profit of the stores that are already struggling . |
| 16 | He explains their shifts and duties , and gives them their copy of the document which they have already seen at their interview . |
| 17 | The directors , in the example given previously , can not retrospectively convert themselves into secured creditors in respect of moneys which they have previously advanced without demanding security . |
| 18 | British TV viewers will not pay more for a cable system just because one day it will be able to provide interactive services which they have never heard of , let alone want . |
| 19 | We saw earlier that , following the Neolithic Revolution , child-rearing regimes assumed an importance which they have never lost in all human cultures based on agriculture and more advanced modes of economic life . |
| 20 | Marielle , quiet spoken and nervy — though , curiously , it is she who brings a greater rhythmical stability to their playing , and who calls the expressiveness to order — talks about their new work , a jazz influenced concerto by Michel Camillo , which they have recently premiered with the Philharmonia Orchestra . |
| 21 | Employers , however , have welcomed the 1.5% pay curb , which they have long called for . |
| 22 | First , there is the early Marxist approach of Ian Taylor which emphasises that hooligan behaviour is a symbolic attempt by working-class fans to restore some control over a game which they feel increasingly alienated from . |
| 23 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 24 | It 's doing what they 've always done for 50 years . |
| 25 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |
| 26 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 27 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 28 | The Literary Lionisers , or those who had survived the damp morning walk to Ramsgate along the sands ( in the steps of the great Dickens on his walk with Hans Christian Andersen ) , were equally divided as to those who wished no more to do with the Imperial , Broadstairs or indeed the Lionisers , those to whom the sudden disappearance of their leader was an added bonus , and those who were determined not to miss what they had already paid for . |
| 29 | Instead they would continue to work towards what they had earlier described as ‘ a national consensus on a desirable frame-work for the curriculum ’ in the quest for ‘ improvement in the consistency and quality of school education across the country ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose some of your own nights when you were on the run were not unlike that , ’ she ventured into what they had never spoken of . |