Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a celebration of their talents because , by being confined — so to speak — to those steps which they most enjoyed and thus performed best , they positively sparkled . |
| 2 | The clause on which they finally agreed and which was adopted the next day as part of the constitution , read instead : Persons who can hear , taking an active interest in the welfare or education of the deaf and dumb , shall be eligible for admission to ordinary membership on the recommendation of five ordinary members of the Association . |
| 3 | The identifiable failures of school science — the anti-science anti-technologists who can see science only as domination rather than that science as domination is itself a historical product , and the mass of people whose schooling teaches them that science is a specialized activity over which they neither have nor could have any control . |
| 4 | That is the purpose of the peace conference in The Hague , which they frequently attend and where they issue declarations and undertakings which they do not always respect when they get home . |
| 5 | The cultural context of the mystics who wrote in English in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnesses to an appetite for spiritual literature which they both formed and addressed . |
| 6 | The neighbourhood effect could also be understood as the middle classes acting as a ‘ generalized other ’ for the working classes of their locality ; in effect a reference group , for subordinate social groups , influencing the extent to which they either resist or abide by dominant , and often centralising , political authority . |
| 7 | Equally the enunciation of statements C and D may enable certain individuals to dominate the group in the name of an ‘ imagined community ’ of race or class which they either claim or are made by others to represent . |
| 8 | Each member of the community was given a name by which he or she was addressed in the Little Academy , representing a quality which they either possessed or sought . |
| 9 | The teacher 's task will often be to help pupils to systematise knowledge which they already have or evidence which they collect , and to keep the focus clear . |
| 10 | And erm in contrast the beaches at erm Seaford have suffered very serious erosion as a result of the depletion of material which they formerly received and Seaford , which of course faces southwest anyway , has always suffered serious erosion . |
| 11 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 12 | They may , however , be taken into account in the initial measurement of the liability in respect of debt to which they directly relate since by this means the financial effect on the issuer of the transaction as a whole is properly reflected . |
| 13 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |
| 14 | Which they now hackt & hewd , as if such use they hated , |
| 15 | A standard method of collecting image data was used : i.e. respondents were presented with a card listing 20 towns and cities which they then scored as interviewers read out 12 pairs of statements , each representing the positive and negative sides of an image dimension . |
| 16 | Objectively , people may lack economic and political power , and live in conditions of poverty and resource privation which they then internalize as feeling powerless ( Gaventa , 1980 ; Albee , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Interest therefore centres on the notion that left and right cerebral hemispheres differ in the processes which they characteristically employ or in some other aspect of information processing . |
| 18 | Older people have absorbed these attitudes which they once held as young people , and lead their lives in ways which confirm the stereotyped images , and perpetuate the myths of ageism from generation to generation . |
| 19 | Many teachers are not teaching the subjects for which they originally qualified and the audit can reveal other hidden skills and talents . |
| 20 | The government officials recognized the system since most bureaucrats owed their own position to nepotism and patronage , perpetuating ‘ a procedure to which they originally resorted and to which they are committed and indebted ’ . |
| 21 | They have both been occasional golfers , which they still enjoy when on holiday in Spain or Portugal . |
| 22 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 23 | Slightly embarrassed by the formality of these surroundings , they would relax in the pub , to which they always retired when the official business had been completed . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 25 | The RAF were expecting them , and a motorised ack-ack unit had been called in with their Scammells and their diesel generators and their giant mobile searchlights to blaze away with 3.7 inch AA guns at what they tentatively registered as about a dozen Heinkels flying very high , too high to be in danger . |
| 26 | Nor do they need their daily practice to be exposed to the analytic eye of anthropological ‘ thick description ’ , for in their task-driven world there is little to be gained by reflecting on what they already live and understand . |
| 27 | 51% of managers said they were playing it safe and upgrading their current central processing system , 29% said they are sticking with what they already have whilst some 16% said they would be downsizing to a mid-range system . |
| 28 | Our planning of an appropriate induction course for the French and German teachers is based on a number of assumptions about what they already have and what they lack : |
| 29 | I hope that Catholic Woman , as it develops , will encourage all Catholic women … single , religious and married … to see the significance of what they already do and the potential which they can yet realise , both in the Church and in society . |
| 30 | There is no way that any party , there is no way that the Liberal party can say to the Labour party or to anyone else , well we 'll support you , we think you 're getting in a mess but it 's your problem , you can carry it because that roughly is what they actually said and if it does go wrong , as it is sure that it will I am quite sure that it will be quite wrong to blame the Labour party entirely for that process , because it wo n't be entirely their fault . |