Example sentences of "[noun] of [Wh det] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 2 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 3 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 4 | To keep prisoners so near to a frontier on the far side of which they would be free , could seem a casual or risky policy , but it is hard to imagine anyone actually escaping from Le Portalet , whose grated windows you can see from the road , with a nasty drop of a good 100 feet straight on to the rocks beneath them . |
| 5 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 6 | The signs of the coefficients on t and P t are correct , but those on σ and k are the opposite of what they should be . |
| 7 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 8 | Peacock ( 1974 ) suggests that the appropriate view is that the current generation is choosing to sacrifice current consumption to internalize its concern for future generations and therefore can be legitimately viewed as gaining from capital expenditure the fruits of which they may not actually sample . |
| 9 | It has been generalist rather than specific , its programme being based upon each child 's interests and abilities ( rather than upon an external authority 's projection of what they ought to be ) . |
| 10 | Consumers judge quality by comparing the service they receive against expectations of what they should receive . |
| 11 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 12 | In Denmark seven of the eight parliamentary parties had reached a national compromise on Oct. 27 on additions to the Treaty on the basis of which they would support a second referendum in 1993 [ see also p. 39158 ] . |
| 13 | Training in research methods is part of their preparation for their research projects on the basis of which they will write a dissertation . |
| 14 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 15 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 16 | Many guests visit restaurants with preconceived ideas of what they should eat . |
| 17 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 18 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 19 | Most politicians , and probably most of the general public , whatever their political party , regard it as in principle a sensible innovation , certainly one that will give parents a better notion of what they ought to expect , in whatever part of the country their children may go to school . |
| 20 | Clark simply refuses to allow that such behaviour by a creature lacking language transforms the content of what they can properly be said to fear or be distressed at . |
| 21 | It does however strike one of some of the conservative authors , particularly Catholic , that they have abstracted their theological beliefs from other knowledge of which they must be in possession . |
| 22 | It has to be done , thought Taliesin , torn between agony for Fergus and the knowledge of what they must do . |
| 23 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 24 | It is not other people or outward events that cause harmful stress , but the way we perceive such external factors and our fears of what they will do to us . |
| 25 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 26 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 27 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 28 | Much of what is approved of may match up in their self-image with how they see their strengths and qualities of which they would like more . |
| 29 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 30 | For them , the cost is this anxiety , and the fact that ( because of the rate of charge on their credit obligations , which commonly is high ) they are poorer , in terms of what they can buy , than they would otherwise have been . |