Example sentences of "which [verb] they [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Booth and Rowntree were wealthy industrialists , it was principally considerations of cost which led them to limit their study to the particular areas they did . |
| 2 | It is the poverty suffered by pensioners with disabilities which forces them to change their behaviour . |
| 3 | Having identified who has joined the church in the past year we need to know what were the main influences which caused them to make their decision . |
| 4 | Cacti have deep and spreading roots , store water in their stems , capture water from the air , have a reduced surface area , and practise a form of photosynthesis which requires them to open their stomata only at night ( see p. 95 ) . |
| 5 | Towards the shift 's close , ordinary policemen and women are generally reluctant to become involved in work which requires them to extend their duty , unless they need the overtime money , in which case it is a spur . |
| 6 | ( I doubt that men are reading magazines which counsel them to modify their style in order ‘ to communicate better with all the women in your life ’ ! ) |
| 7 | We have no commercial or other relations with the Blues , but we supply the Reds with essential food which helps them maintain their war effort . |
| 8 | That is fundamental to the needs of our economy in the years ahead ; fundamental to the prospects for unemployed people ; and fundamental also to the creation of opportunities for our people not only to obtain work , to have and to hold down a job , but to obtain work and jobs which give them satisfaction , which are truly rewarding and which enable them to fulfil their potential to the greatest possible extent . |
| 9 | It had to be modified in 1961 when it became clear that a minority holding did not provide a certain defence against a determined takeover , but Whitbread continued to retain minority holdings in a number of regional brewers , which enabled them to retain their independence . |
| 10 | By so differentiating he described both the characteristics of his villagers and the typical gestures which enabled them to tell their tale ( see page 59 ) . |
| 11 | One quality Oxford possessed in abundance , though , was spirit , which enabled them to claw their way back . |
| 12 | For this faction , the term ‘ just war ’ has secular as well as religious appeal , an ambiguity which permits them to communicate their cause in direct fashion to left-wing British and right-wing American groups at one and the same time . |
| 13 | He said that cabinets and parties were coalitions ; groups of people with a common philosophy , providing ‘ a starting point in most discussions which enables them to work their way by dialogue through to agreement ’ . |
| 14 | However , these conceptualizations also derive from the biographical situation of policemen and women , which predisposes them to define their role in a certain way . |
| 15 | The exploited classes do not spontaneously generate ideologies which lead them to accept their lot . |
| 16 | Such enzymes do exist — they are known as reverse transcriptases — but they are generally believed to be exclusive to RNA viruses , which need them to transcribe their RNA genes into DNA for replication inside cells . |