Example sentences of "of [Wh det] they [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever we compare two or more people , we can discover a variety of attributes in respect of which they may be equal or unequal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 4 | Later this year they will launch the Prague Heritage Fund , of which they will be joint patrons . |
| 5 | 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' . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 8 | I honestly had no idea of what they might be thinking or what to make of it myself . |
| 9 | Therese said , ‘ Mon petit , the people who talk do n't matter , I was n't thinking of them , I was thinking of your mother , of what they might be saying about her . ’ |
| 10 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |
| 11 | But there 's no clear idea of what they will be worth or how many private sector bidders there will be . |
| 12 | The yellow-jacketed policeman shuffled uneasily from foot to foot , uncertain of what they should be doing now . |
| 13 | Furthermore , despite Hurd 's fervent belief that security arrangements must originate from within the Arab world itself , his own hints of what they should be ( which no Arab leader is likely to ignore ) seem to run counter to the practical realities of the world in which they are to be applied . |
| 14 | 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 . |