Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | Training in research methods is part of their preparation for their research projects on the basis of which they will write a dissertation . |
| 11 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has to be done , thought Taliesin , torn between agony for Fergus and the knowledge of what they must do . |
| 18 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 19 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 20 | ‘ … 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 ) . |
| 21 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 22 | Whenever we compare two or more people , we can discover a variety of attributes in respect of which they may be equal or unequal . |
| 23 | Suddenly , the division bells ring and the room empties , milords making their way to vote in a debate of which they may have heard not a word . |
| 24 | The thought of what they might even now be doing to Ruggiero Miletti took the sparkle and warmth out of the morning and made Zen realize how exhausted he was . |
| 25 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 26 | In more realistic conditions , however , managers are faced with a complex series of questions in the resolution of which they must exercise choice , for example , about plant location , production methods , employment levels , output , advertising , investment , research and development , and so on . |
| 27 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 28 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 29 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 30 | Accordingly , peasant aspirations remained firmly fixed on the one panacea of which they could conceive : the land of the nobility . |