Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 2 | If Roman Catholics believe that abortion is always wrong and contrary to God 's law , there is no compromise they can be offered , or which they can accept , which will satisfy their principles . |
| 3 | Unless there 's a special fluid or something they could put it in there to wash through |
| 4 | If something is wrong with a bedroom or whatever they will come to us . |
| 5 | She criticised the showing on television of ‘ pictures of young black teenagers taking calculated — and cheerful — running kicks at plate-glass shop windows , coolly helping themselves to the goods inside , shoes , shirts or whatever they could lay their hands on ’ . |
| 6 | And if the electronic sniffers or whatever they used to detect the presence of a nuclear mass gave a positive reading would the police want to evacuate the area before an attempt was made to render it harmless ? |
| 7 | Ninety-five per cent of our cats are fed a canned cat food , the others eating scraps or whatever they can catch ! |
| 8 | No , they might be on the dole or what they used to call the Board of Guardians something like that . |
| 9 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 10 | And there 's not a lot of co-ordination between what she 's currently doing and what the children did last year , or what they will do with another teacher next . |
| 11 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 12 | And if they think that they they can help you out with that that extra half page to get four pages |
| 13 | So far AMP executives are not sure where the Pearl is going wrong nor what they would do about it , other than perhaps improve the British group 's technology and have more centralisation of the selling operations . |
| 14 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 15 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 16 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 17 | But the next exam on the educational ladder lays emphasis on what people know , rather than what they can do , and is seen primarily as a passport to university entry . |
| 18 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 19 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 20 | A word with your local Citizens ' Advice Bureau manager may well give you an idea who is doing what and whom they would recommend . |
| 21 | users need to learn a scheme which may be unusual or unique and which they might find difficult . |
| 22 | He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to . |
| 23 | Farmers , while including all gradations of responsiveness within their ranks , do in many cases have a deep feeling for the land which they see every day , and which in many cases was shaped by their fathers and grandfathers , and which they would like to pass on to their children . |
| 24 | So sociologists can be stimulated by everyday occurrences which they , because of their training , can see from a special perspective and which they can put into a sociological frame of reference . |
| 25 | They are being engaged in activities which have a direct relevance to work they are already involved in , and which they can see are designed to help them do this work more effectively . |
| 26 | Parliaments must connect government with the governed , and a significant transfer of power away from national parliaments would represent a weakening of institutions with which people are familiar , and which they can understand , and a strengthening of one which is remote and weak . |
| 27 | This dominance exhibits itself in the ability of corporations to choose effectively which topics of policy they will shepherd into the arena of public debate , and which they will keep within the confines of private discussions . |
| 28 | The client will need to be told how to contact you , whether there are any prefered times for calls to be made and who they can expect to speak to . |
| 29 | Now if I , am I right in saying that B T is happy to continue er with the present framework of Trust Law , because within that framework you 've proposed to us er a er a body of ideas about the composition of the numbers of trustees and who they should represent , which would make it much more difficult for employers to raid the fund . |
| 30 | So everybody bar the PE teacher hated me playing football and everything they could do to stop me playing football they did . |