Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some donors might have great works of art which they 've lost interest in , or that belonged to their father or their grandfather . |
| 2 | Pagan Platonists , however , could not stomach the Christian notion of incarnation which they understood to imply change in God . |
| 3 | The latter were more concerned with the tangible and apparently more readily eradicable physical conditions which they believed influenced behaviour than with the less tangible effects of infant emotional experience or of inheritance . |
| 4 | ‘ States of mind , ’ Richards says ( 1967 : 45 ) , ‘ are valuable in the degree in which they tend to reduce waste and frustration . ’ |
| 5 | Though eugenicists found some ammunition in the Report , of which they sought to take advantage , the medical profession were equally responsive but more influential . |
| 6 | Griffith ( 1966 ) , for example , showed that government departments varied enormously in the extent to which they sought to exercise control over local authorities . |
| 7 | On the same day the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Defence Ministers signed a five-year bilateral defence treaty , in which they agreed to exchange information and experience " in the light of the dismantling of the Warsaw Treaty " . |
| 8 | On the legal substance of the case , the House of Lords had little to add to the principles on which they had decided Express Newspapers v. McShane . |
| 9 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
| 10 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that subjects in this study were more likely to recall the situations in which they had experienced risk . |
| 12 | Study 1 demonstrated that drivers were substantially more likely to recall those situations in which they had experienced risk . |
| 13 | The Legion would return you to the place at which they had taken charge of you . |
| 14 | Firms may enter into formal information agreements , under which they undertake to exchange information on costs , outputs , prices , and discounts . |
| 15 | City economists welcomed the decision to raise rates and defend the pound 's value , which they expect to subdue inflation more effectively . |
| 16 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 17 | DHAs can then concentrate on ensuring that the health needs of the population for which they are responsible are met ; that there are effective services for the prevention and control of disease and the promotion of health ; that their population has access to a comprehensive range of high quality , value for money services ; and on setting targets for and monitoring the performance of those management units for which they continue to have responsibility . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been requested by the Governors of the school to express our thanks to Rosemary Parkes and David Burns [ from Hygiene Preston ] for the competent , efficient and courteous manner in which they have conducted business . |
| 19 | Those of us who draft these clauses have to look at similar cases , to see which restraints the courts have upheld and which they have declared void . |
| 20 | The Rank Organisation 's policy requires employees who leave within 12 months of moving to repay their disturbance allowance , all fees for which they have received reimbursement , removal costs , travel costs and any out-of-pocket expenses paid by the company . |
| 21 | Letters are often a hoped-for source of descriptions of events or of personal feelings about certain things ; and one source of written information which , though not in letter form but not wholly dissimilar , can be useful for the researcher , is the description written by children or young people of events in which they have taken part , or about given social situations . |
| 22 | Normal rats learn rapidly to avoid arms from which they have taken food on that trial . |
| 23 | Emily 's on about doing er hostess badge which they have to make cake |
| 24 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 25 | Er the Director of Transportation recognises that , it was said that he 's happy to await the outcome of liberations by that er District Council and that 's what the Conservative group has suggested that we do but if he wants you to recognise that every policy has to be accepted , the way in which they have performed time and decided to be addressed by my members of of all parties and therefore I urge you to support the Conservative resolutions I now put forward . |
| 26 | Plant cells carry chloroplasts : organelles containing the pigment chlorophyll , which they employ to entrap sunlight . |
| 27 | The rebels ' immediate objective was the bridge at Warrington , from which they proposed to swing west and seize Liverpool , an important prize . |
| 28 | The plaintiff accepted they were precluded from re-litigating whether the road verges were registrable under the Act , by the commisioner 's decision , which they conceded gave rise to cause of action estoppel , but said the requirements of issue estoppel were lacking . |
| 29 | They may not be used routinely , but there certainly are circumstances in which they do provide assistance . |
| 30 | The hero , Beowulf , does battle with Grendel and Grendel 's mother , two enormous monsters which haunt the swamps — ‘ moras ’ in Anglo-Saxon — from which they emerge to wreak havoc before returning to a mere in the very heart of the fen : ‘ The lake which they inhabit lies not many miles from here , overhung with groves of rime-crusted trees whose thick roots darken the water . ’ |