Example sentences of "what they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To what extent is the learning process of the classroom reflected in the working relationships within the institution as a whole , i.e. do schools practise in their structures what they preach in their aims ? |
| 2 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 3 | And what we 've tried to do is to look at the national curriculum and try to identify young engineers who could go in and help with design and technology and quite obviously , practice what they preach . |
| 4 | Typically , he summarises aphoristically the question of whether writers lose authority if they are found not to practise what they preach . |
| 5 | As has often been noted , such individuals very seldom practise what they preach . |
| 6 | But he says their not practising what they preach . |
| 7 | Parents will often pace what they reveal initially , giving only information that they feel is required . |
| 8 | Discussions around the educational achievements of British Afro Caribbean and Asian girls are also significant in what they reveal about the contradictions and reductionisms of both public and academic debate in the whole area of racism , culture and education . |
| 9 | Official trade figures need careful handling , but those who specialise in this area generally agree over what they reveal . |
| 10 | The presentational aspect involves all kinds of different considerations which I shall come to presently , but what they boil down to is this : what can you do to make it easier for the communicator to communicate and the audience to receive the required message — with minimum distraction ? |
| 11 | One way of checking what people are eating is to see what they throw away . |
| 12 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 13 | At a larger distance , none the less , a pattern of partial unity of purpose grows faintly visible , and the old romancers and young realists of post-war Britain by now look one in what they denied and defied , even if they remain opposed in style and in the positives of dogmatic faith . |
| 14 | His eyes seemed riveted on his hands — or on what they touched . |
| 15 | ‘ No one who has not lived among them knows how hard their lives are , how wretched their condition , could imagine what they suffer . |
| 16 | Depends what they flower like though . |
| 17 | What they highlight very sharply is the importance of very careful scrutiny of the ways in which girls and black pupils are portrayed as problems . |
| 18 | They are indeed considerable achievements , but what they show most clearly is how hard it will be to get the major Third World countries to agree on any protocol which could slow down or affect industrial growth . |
| 19 | The actions themselves may be insignificant in themselves , but what they show about our concern for others , whether they are friends or strangers , is very important . |
| 20 | Foreigners , they do n't bother what they show . |
| 21 | What they show is that no matter how objective or impartial enquiries may seek or claim to be they are always in some degree preconceived because they are preconditioned by cultural assumptions of one sort or another . |
| 22 | We see ourselves very much in sympathy with their sober , selective approach to what they show , and with their scholarly cataloguing . |
| 23 | Yes but the twenty five percent what they show , is pretty horrific was n't it ? |
| 24 | Inevitably scribes would have corrected what they perceived to be ‘ mistakes ’ and undoubtedly the story would also have been embellished on occasion . |
| 25 | Noades has revealed the full extent of fury from Selhurst Park supporters at what they perceived as his personal attack on Coppell . |
| 26 | The older , rusticated students were moved by appeals to their sense of national duty ( as well as by threats ) , while the younger students wished to revive anti-Japanese feeling because of what they perceived as the ‘ second Japanese invasion ’ . |
| 27 | The Dennis case was by no means unusual : many of those employed had encountered some form of what they perceived as racialism in the transition from school to work . |
| 28 | For one thing , employers ' behaviour both in the USA and Sweden was profoundly influenced by what they perceived as the threat posed by unions to their ability to manage . |
| 29 | Their ‘ choices ’ were even more limited than before — for many it was a ‘ choice ’ between what they perceived as ‘ shit jobs ’ and temporary schemes . |
| 30 | She and other teachers insisted on the right to attend these lessons , and were taken aback by what they perceived to be the absence of a moral framework in what was , as it turned out , an ‘ entirely factual ’ approach to sex education . |