Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [pron] they " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A system to convert data from internal and external sources into information and to communicate that information , in an appropriate form , to managers at all levels in all functions to enable them to make timely and effective decisions for planning , directing and controlling the activities for which they are responsible . ’
2 In addition to their knowledge and expertise in the activities for which they are currently employed , many have additional relevant experience ( botanical , geological , horticultural ) gained from previous employ or personal endeavour .
3 Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved .
4 Computer hackers pose a serious threat to the security of computer systems and some of the activities in which they engage are potentially criminal in nature .
5 It seemed in truth a time of indulgent expansion ; and , as if in retribution , students of all kinds , in universities old and new and in the polytechnics , became more and more resistant to authority , not just social authority , but the academic authority of their teachers and of the disciplines within which they were studying .
6 For example , Parsons explicitly says that , that the drives of the id are socially moulded in the sense that , the forms in which they express themselves are the result of socialization .
7 If the new higher education funding bodies established by the Education Reform Act ( 1988 ) were to rely over-heavily on numerical ‘ performance indicators ’ in assessing the extent to which institutions have fulfilled the contracts for which they are funded , institutions are likely to develop course appraisal systems which record performance in just those terms .
8 But unfortunately , they are not getting the opportunity because of er some of the management failings means that they 're not actually getting the contracts to which they 're entitled .
9 Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated .
10 What actually happens depends to some extent on the strategies that classes pursue and on the unity with which they organise themselves and seize opportunities to strengthen their positions .
11 If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving .
12 This contrast between ‘ fundamentalist ’ and ‘ pragmatic ’ attitudes is not specifically religious but can be generalized to describe the range of attitudes within a society and the direction in which they are changing .
13 Day ( 1964 ) noted that people are fairly consistent as to the direction in which they shift their gaze to break off eye contact .
14 This is often called " body language " and includes the way people stand or sit , the direction in which they turn their bodies , whether they lean forward or sit back .
15 It does , however , mean that such men had no serious doubts about the direction in which they were going and ought to go , and the methods , intellectual or practical , of getting there .
16 He wondered if the fact that there were no tracks in the direction from which they were supposed to be coming would be noticed , and thought not .
17 Retail companies may want to know the answers to the following kinds of questions : * How far do its customers travel to a specific store or " branch ? * What is the direction from which they travel ? * In what type of area do they live ? * That are their lifestyles and purchasing habits ? * How much of a town or area remains untapped by a shop located in it ?
18 " I want hardwoods planted up that hill , " he waved his arm in the direction from which they had come .
19 We are determined to reinforce the professionalism of teachers and the esteem in which they are held .
20 It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies .
21 It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies .
22 Now they tended to find their victims , and the loot for which they came , locked behind strong walls ; if they ventured too far , they found garrisons sallying from these fortresses and cutting off their escape .
23 However , many IMRO members do name the accounts for whom they want the firm to deal and these accounts can therefore qualify as indirect customers .
24 Politicians and administrators should clearly be interested in the effectiveness of the programmes with which they are most directly concerned .
25 She distrusted the institutions through which they exercised influence from the moment that supreme power seemed within her grasp .
26 But Dear and Wolch 's main point is that the daily lives of those dependent on welfare are suffused in largely intangible and invisible ways by the institutions on which they are dependent .
27 What happened is indisputable : students , and the institutions to which they belonged , acquired a bad name universally .
28 If the provisions were to work , there had obviously to be a clear definition of the institutions to whom they applied and the institutions chosen were mainly those for which the Bank of England had supervisory responsibility under the 1979 Banking Act , expanded by a few additions .
29 Lyons could legitimately maintain that scribal records have some potential , according to the institutions in which they are developed and used , for reliability as defined in that culture or even as defined by him .
30 On the basis of many years ' detailed observation of infants , they argue for the existence of what they call ‘ innate intersubjectivity ’ as a universal motivation , present in the newborn and peculiar to our species , that leads the child to acquire symbolic understanding .
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