Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three issues associated with institutional aims and objectives : ( i ) the extent to which they are aims and objectives rather than social platitudes and/or moral aspirations ; ( ii ) the extent to which objectives are differentiated from aims and are capable of implementation ; and ( iii ) the extent to which they refer to teaching and non-teaching staff as well as children . |
| 2 | He and a business partner , Benedict Marsh , also found guilty , will not be sentenced until the end of a forthcoming VAT evasion trial involving alleged gold smuggling in which they are defendants . |
| 3 | The detailed battles go on between Her Majesty 's Treasury , whose constitutional role is to contain spending , and the spending departments that are responsible for the individual services and aware of the demands they are under and of the nature of the rising costs to which they are subject . |
| 4 | This suggests , Leakey and Lewin argue , considerable conceptualising capacities : consciously relating to others through language and reflecting on the innate processes to which they are subject . |
| 5 | Potential ontological existents are topics that are in principle capable of existing independently of individual acts of thought of which they are objects , and meanings can not so exist . |
| 6 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 7 | As the sense of self , they provide the basic attitudes and perspectives which are taken for granted in relations with the external world , by virtue of the extent to which they are models into which that world must be assimilated . |
| 8 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 9 | Awareness of environmental issues is being introduced into undergraduate teaching , across all Faculties , and not only in those subjects , such as earth sciences , biological sciences , agriculture , geography and ecology , of which they are part and parcel . |
| 10 | The Code draws attention in a preamble to the duties of lawyers towards their clients , to the courts in which they practise , to the profession of which they are members and to the general public , noting the potential for conflicts of interest to arise . |
| 11 | ( a ) Conflicting interests In settling the terms of the partnership agreement there is often a need to strike a balance between the conflicting interests and aspirations of individuals and the firms of which they are members . |
| 12 | but similar change of causation , restrictions imposed by of which they are members and which they are party and we would say we had the same defence to the extent that they had written business which would not of been risen if the restrictions had not been made |
| 13 | Conventions are here understood in a narrow sense in which they are solutions to co-ordination problems , i.e. to situations in which the vast majority have sufficient reason to prefer to take that action which is ( likely to be ) taken by the vast majority . |
| 14 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 15 | The LIFESPAN manager receives a summary report indicating the total number of modules nominated , and the module managers receive a report listing exactly which modules and their versions have been nominated , for which they are manager . |
| 16 | but similar change of causation , restrictions imposed by of which they are members and which they are party and we would say we had the same defence to the extent that they had written business which would not of been risen if the restrictions had not been made |
| 17 | Some States may have interests arising out of a treaty to which they are parties , and which is to be interpreted or applied by the Court . |
| 18 | For their authentication , they required the experience of being in the situation in which they were part of the ordered life . |
| 19 | But apart from this , the Nazareans are indistinguishable from the broader movement of which they were part . |
| 20 | Park , adopting an analogy with plant and animal ecology , was interested in how individuals adapted to the larger , and rapidly changing , society of which they were part . |
| 21 | Already in the later seventeenth century , moreover , the designation of chargé d'affaires had begun to be given to secretaries who thus acquired a representative character , either on appointment or on the death or departure of the head of the mission of which they were part . |
| 22 | Some of Hyam 's most impressive passages describe male bisexuality : in many of the cultures which the British conquered or governed , sexual relations between men carried none of the odium or guilt to which they were subject in the United Kingdom ( particularly from the 1890s ) , and he has unearthed much evidence of cheerful , matter-of-fact but discreetly conducted sexual relations between British men overseas . |
| 23 | This transformation came about as companies expanded to take advantage of mass production methods and associated economies of scale and integration , and also as they strove to limit the competitive forces to which they were subject . |
| 24 | Prominent individuals were often prominent by virtue of the groups of which they were leaders . |
| 25 | The August agreement stipulated that during the transitional period , Russia and Ukraine would exercise joint command over the Fleet ; enjoy equal use of its bases and facilities ; recruit to it equally by conscription ; and allow servicemen of the fleet to swear allegiance to the state of which they were citizens . |
| 26 | I look forward with considerable pleasure to our arrival at Flinders whither I proceed purposely to see the remnants of the inhabitants which once peopled this fine Island over which they were Lords and Masters but now submissive creatures to the wiles of Englishmen . |
| 27 | Starting with the first , place the following in the chronological order of which they were President of the Cambridge Union : Leon Brittan , Norman Lamont , John Selwyn Gummer , Kenneth Clarke . |
| 28 | The room in which they were dining must , he thought , have been part of the original cottage . |
| 29 | Five out of 18 ( 28% ) drug users were admitted to hospital with bacterial pneumonia in the four to six months between their last visit at which they were HIV negative and their first visit when they were HIV positive . |
| 30 | Another and even more importantly irrelevant difference is that thermometer readings are linguistic : they say explicitly what they 're signs of . |