Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever they stopped talking the muffled sound of the machinery in the workshop seemed to become louder . |
| 2 | Attainment of the competence award is not limited by any specific time period or course length , so candidates will be able to come forward for assessment whenever they have accumulated the required evidence of competence against national standards . |
| 3 | In short , theory can help practitioners to adopt a theoretical orientation to their task , whereby they seek to refer the particular techniques they use to more general principles , and , reciprocally , test out the validity of such principles against the observed actualities of classroom practice . |
| 4 | Their ability to react to given situations using slide and a film projector images and er a written examination at the er end of it , plus a full classification shoot whereby they have to reach a certain standard erm of ability in order to er pass the two week course . |
| 5 | One sympathized , but how they failed to recognize the extraordinary quality of the work will always be beyond me . |
| 6 | It tells how they returned bearing a huge bunch of grapes , and with reports of a land ‘ flowing with milk and honey ’ , just as God had promised . |
| 7 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 8 | And everyone in the press was saying how they had won the fucking thing already . |
| 9 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |
| 10 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 11 | How they 've portrayed a excellent |
| 12 | Indeed , as several hon. Members have already said , it is a confession by the Government of how they have mismanaged the entire privatisation programme . |
| 13 | Given that the units each do their particular thing , I can then understand how they interact to make the whole engine move . |
| 14 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |
| 15 | Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him . |
| 16 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 17 | Certainly the Communists ' role since 1941 had expunged memories of the Hitler-Stalin Pact period when they had opposed the French war effort . |
| 18 | In their most unpopular form the Corn Laws dated from 1815 when they had imposed a high tariff on imported corn to protect home-grown corn in freak economic conditions . |
| 19 | Still they raised great statues to celebrate the moment when they had laid the Hung Mao low . |
| 20 | All she knew was when they began to leave the straggling apartment block on the edge of town , because she felt him slide into another gear and the engine opened out with a deep growl , and then they were climbing , climbing , following the sinuous trail deep into a cleft in the mountains . |
| 21 | Most perennials grow periodically , stopping before the end of the growing season when they have reached a particular stage , for example the production of winter buds . |
| 22 | But they know what the game is , and they know when they have done a good job : the rewards are tangible and clear . |
| 23 | There are times when Chancellors are right to fuss with mini-measures , and there are times when they need to make an instant impact . |
| 24 | But of course if he worked for Raleigh where they 've got a vast labour force a vast pay as you earn scheme then any income would be taxed by Raleigh as a subsidiary source so there would be another code number there , they would actually be collecting tax at two sources , but they would still need to allocate allowances , it may well be that , at Raleigh for example , they 've covered that by allowances in which case they pull back five hundred pounds there to collect . |
| 25 | There 's a Fair Isle but that 's a Norwegian because this was happening in Norway , Iceland , everything that , in the cold climes where they 've got a nice woollen spun yarn . |
| 26 | The pound has been very strong recently , particularly in the United States , where they 've got a weak dollar , and we have to put over the message that there are tremendous deals to be had erm both in air fares and when you get here in terms of hotel rates erm and in terms of prices of food and so forth . |
| 27 | Well I mean it 's same where they 've brought a double one out have n't they ? |
| 28 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 29 | The important British companies , from Korda 's London Films to Goldcrest , have attracted capital at a point where they seemed to understand the economic need to balance Hollywood extravagance with a strong dose of parsimony , but all have ended up committing suicide by spending huge sums of money on attempts to emulate Hollywood . |
| 30 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |