Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] they [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat , however , my conviction that primary teachers can adapt to the new legislation without abandoning the good practice which they know is right for children . |
| 2 | An international team of astronomers estimated that the distance to Supernova 1987A , and therefore the LMC , is 169 000 light years , a figure which they say is accurate to within 5 per cent . |
| 3 | Insider dealing in this respect is controlled by restricting the number of traders who have access to information , a technique which they believe is easier than trying to control how much information is announced over a given period of time . |
| 4 | Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business ! |
| 5 | The words ‘ Pod gathered ’ tell us that the sentence which they interrupt is a report of something said to Pod , namely still part of Spiller 's explanation . |
| 6 | But since then the law has been changed to allow the courts to review a sentence which they believe is too light . |
| 7 | As a last resort the salesperson may need to ‘ second guess ’ the reluctant buyer and suggest an issue which they believe is causing the problem and ask a question such as : |
| 8 | They steer people away from any home which they believe is likely to be closed and once you start doing this , you will in fact be sealing the fate of those homes and you it 's a very , very dangerous game , you 've got ta be , you 've got ta play it very , very carefully indeed and I hope Chairman that there can be a degree of common sense and rationality introduced into discussions between the members of the various groups who have to deal with these very difficult issues . |
| 9 | And an epic which they say is unreadable . ’ |
| 10 | Lewis and Meredith ( 1988 ) reveal similar tensions and problems although the picture which they draw is less bleak , showing a number of women whose recollections of caring for their mothers are predominantly positive , even if stressful . |
| 11 | These essays , say the publisher , intend to challenge the view that Kollwitz ‘ reputation relies on the ‘ social content of her work ’ ; a notion which they suggest is perpetuated ‘ often at the expense of her remarkable artistic skills ’ . |
| 12 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 13 | Innu Indians Simon Michel and Mary-Ann Michel , delivering a petition to Canada House , London , yesterday , protesting at noise and pollution from low-flying Nato aircraft over the Labrador-Quebec peninsula which they say is threatening their survival by killing the animals they hunt . |
| 14 | ‘ . The theory which they comprise is an attempt to articulate the feeling that , for a belief to be knowledge , it must be peculiarly sensitive to the truth of the proposition believed ; it must track the truth ( Nozick 's term ) in the sense that if the proposition were in changed circumstances still true , it would still be believed , and if it were not true , it would not . |
| 15 | The general approach which they make is extremely varied , from being quite clandestine to being rather pushy. 1 think the more senior one becomes , the more serious any headhunting approach becomes . |
| 16 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 17 | Although the number of new patents held by Nimslo is impressive the legal monopoly which they offer is much less so . |
| 18 | In a Commons motion they say they deeply regret the decision to shut the hospital which they argue is a direct result of Government reforms in the National Health Service . |
| 19 | In a Commons motion they say they deeply regret the decision to shut the hospital which they argue is a direct result of Government reforms in the National Health Service . |
| 20 | INROADS first Safe Driving Challenge which they believe is the first competition of its kind in Local Authority has been hailed as a great success . |
| 21 | There is one exception to all these payments in that parish , town or community councillors are not entitled to receive payment when the duty which they perform is within the area of the parish or community . |
| 22 | Erm the police will only apply their resources to a matter which they feel is appropriate to the need of that particular problem . |
| 23 | When they talk of change what they mean is a change of leadership . |
| 24 | As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . |
| 25 | These stories also serve to give to the part-time reserve police a self-respect which they feel is otherwise lacking from an organization which undervalues and marginalizes them . |
| 26 | The breakdown of trust which they effect is graphically represented by Shakespeare , first by the way in which the king 's sons , fleeing the country , are suspected to have been his killers ; second , in the scene where Macduff , who has finally fled Scotland ( his wife and children are murdered by Macbeth in his absence ) , is confronted and tested by Malcolm . |
| 27 | Flacks and his colleagues , opposed to the public company which they feel is designed to produce dividends for major shareholders rather than quality signings , said : ‘ Every speaker at the meeting was against the plc . |
| 28 | Artists express in their own way what they feel is saintly , what is sinful |
| 29 | In spite of the high efficiency of halogen lamps , the heat which they generate is considerable , and the 1000 and 2000 watt units are generally blower-cooled . |
| 30 | By contrast , in London " talking black " or " chatting Patois " can be seen as a social act where speakers , coming to the conversation with similar models of the stereotyped " Creole " , but different degrees of competence in it and different amounts of motivation , negotiate a language which they agree is " Patois " / " Creole " / " black talk " etc . |