Example sentences of "which they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly three years after the murder , Mr and Mrs Macaulay still share the same sense of outrage and defiance against the IRA which they felt at the time of the killings . |
| 2 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 3 | It is a combat zone which they concede to the predators until morning , when they drive out their cattle again past sleeping lions and strangely reticent hyena . |
| 4 | But , for all that effort and the manner in which they attacked from the kick-off , I believe they deserved that try . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly , the failure or unwillingness of Adorno and Horkheimer to find difference in the cultural find which they survey in the Culture Industry essay — American popular culture of the thirties — is damaging . |
| 6 | At Cromwell Road the students made use of the first floor which had a magnificent music room and a ballroom which they loaned to the Senior Common Room for the purposes of the annual Royal College Charity Ball which rivalled the Chelsea Arts Ball . |
| 7 | Trade unionists were demonstrating against sharp falls in living standards , which they blamed on the government 's current austerity programme , economic mismanagement and widespread government corruption . |
| 8 | There are many cases recorded in which Christian subjects petitioned the sultan to redress grievances which they suffered at the hands of overbearing church leaders , and where the sultan acted in the interests of the petitioners . |
| 9 | Willses have never been ashamed of their religious faith , and the disabilities which they suffered in the past as Nonconformists served to strengthen their convictions . |
| 10 | white material , they 're just white , but they , they a total black out which they use on the rave nights . |
| 11 | In the round before they attack , the valley is filled with their bizarre hoots and screeches , which they use in the same manner as bats to navigate and locate their prey . |
| 12 | Modern farmers are often accused of ‘ soil-mining ’ rather than farming — of not replacing the fertility which they extract from the soil by a balanced rotation of crop and animal husbandry . |
| 13 | In Western industrial society , the means of production are owned by the capitalist whereas the workers own only their labour which they hire to the employer in return for wages . |
| 14 | Similarly , in the capitalist era , there are two main classes : the ‘ bourgeoisie ’ or capitalist class which owns the means of production , and the ‘ proletariat ’ or working class whose members own only their labour which they hire to the bourgeoisie in return for wages . |
| 15 | When these enterprises do manage to take hold the next key question is the extent to which they hire from the local community and from disadvantaged groups ( e.g. the long-term unemployed ) . |
| 16 | When they had heard the king , they departed ; and lo , the star , which they saw in the east , went before them , till it came and stood over where the young child was . |
| 17 | Everyone had brought a small handful of husked rice , which they passed to the front to be put on a plate beside the dhāmi . |
| 18 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 19 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 20 | The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 21 | There is a point for many men which they regard as the point of no return . |
| 22 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 23 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 24 | Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 25 | The qualities of initiative , responsibility and loyalty which they demanded from the soldier were very different from the passive obedience and mechanical discipline typified by the army of Frederick II ( which , significantly , found it difficult to create units of this kind ) . |
| 26 | And erm , they 've got some new system of a little plastic card , which they stick into the machine each time . |
| 27 | In the western provinces , where the Christian population was overwhelmingly Catholic or in communion with Rome , peasants were refusing to fulfil the economic obligations which they owed to the Orthodox clergy . |
| 28 | All cephalopods are carnivores , feeding on fish , shrimps and crabs , which they catch with the tentacles . |
| 29 | He and Sir David accordingly set upon this final crucial lap of their preparations and to witness the unswerving determination with which they persevered in the face of repeated frustrations was a humbling experience ; countless letters and telegrams were dispatched and his lordship himself made three separate trips to Paris within the space of two months . |
| 30 | On their return they were given the Charles University which they absorbed into the Clementinum , and the emperor became their protector . |