Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ventured to suggest that there was nothing in the manner in which they had brought the concern into its active and productive state of working , which ought to subject them to such new and vexatious problems . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) A general immunity , possessed by all persons and bodies , from being compelled on pain of punishment to answer questions the answers to which may incriminate them . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) A general immunity , possessed by all persons and bodies , from being compelled on pain of punishment to answer questions the answers to which may incriminate them . |
| 4 | But antiracist activities encapsulate one final problem which may outlive them . |
| 5 | Elderly parents may begin to feel tense and unsure of their previous social skills and ability to sustain long conversations with visitors , or may tire very quickly , which may lead them to start placing obstacles of one kind and another to people coming to the house at all . |
| 6 | They may have changing patterns of substance use and an unstructured lifestyle which may lead them to want services intermittently . |
| 7 | ( In fact , if one reads her work carefully , one notices that she never speaks of God , but rather of people 's concept of God , which may lead them on in their striving for justice . ) |
| 8 | And the ‘ people professions ’ ( such as management , social work and teaching ) also seem to have a somewhat ambiguous status in the academic culture , which may lead them sometimes to de-emphasize the human aspects of their work , and emphasize the theoretical , procedural or institutional . |
| 9 | Since that was so counterbalanced by conditions , which may lead them into disputes and difficulties , they would be better acting upon their current lease . |
| 10 | To the men and women who wait in its shadow with the ground rumbling under them and the volcanic ash hiding the sun , it is a terrifying reality which may drive them to the most desperate expedients . |
| 11 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 12 | But in a way that puts cash into companies which may allow them to increase their dividends . ’ |
| 13 | We have seen that theories in the social sciences often appear to have irreducible value-components which may render them fundamentally incompatible with one another . |
| 14 | These will probably be things that they would have kept as a matter of course in their store cupboard in earlier days , but have gradually dropped off their shopping list as they grew older and only had themselves to cook for ; so there is no question of giving them new ideas — only trying to revive old ones , which may tempt them to prepare more varied and nourishing meals to achieve a balanced diet . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State at the head of its sponsoring Department of State must lay its annual report and accounts before Parliament which may debate them and which may , if it thinks fit , call the Chairman and others before a select committee , examine them and report on their performance . |
| 16 | These children would be put into orphanages or into care and have a greater possibility of leading an unhappy childhood which may afflict them with mental disorders . |
| 17 | Police were also examining video tapes which may help them find those responsible . |
| 18 | Since electrically charged objects attract or repel one another ( unlike charges attract , like charges repel ) , there are forces of attraction and repulsion between atoms , which may cause them to combine in specific ways to form chemical compounds . |
| 19 | This approach takes into consideration the person 's past history and current circumstances which may cause them to be especially susceptible to respond adversely to particular types of event . |
| 20 | Drug makers are by far the largest beneficiaries , which may save them $2 billion a year . |
| 21 | To build a theory of ‘ lawyers as controllers ’ on an examination of their minority work with working class clients is therefore to miss the central point about what lawyers do , and it is this central point which should give them their place in a theory of the social formation . |
| 22 | The latest bright idea is to bury the device from one of those irritating musical greetings cards in their run , which should drive them out ( or mad ) . |
| 23 | According to Mrs Whitehouse , it not only condoned , but advocated , teenage sex , and finally ‘ brought out into the open , in no uncertain fashion , the nature of the contemporary assault upon the young and upon the ethical structure which should support them ’ . |
| 24 | Hume and Kant ( 1724–1804 ) are two towering giants of philosophy and our brief indications of their positions on morality — which must tear them from their systems as a whole — may irritate the knowledgeable , but with the space at my disposal and the particular purpose of supplying background to Part Two of this work , the only alternative was to ignore them altogether . |
| 25 | Will he consult with our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security about how the availability for work rule might impede people , particularly the adult unemployed , in obtaining useful training which might enable them to return to work ? |
| 26 | As far as I can tell , they have all three led blameless lives , had no criminal connection , kept themselves to themselves and as separate from Moslems as they could , and had no occasion to even meet a Zikr , let alone enter into a relationship with one which might lead them to want to kill him . |
| 27 | Feedback suggests that students enjoy the experience , acquire knowledge about professional roles and patient management , improve their teamworking skills , and develop positive attitudes towards multidisciplinary teamworking which might serve them well in their later professional practice . |
| 28 | These arose out of the feeling that trade unions had to become involved in other spheres of influence if they were to offset any serious injury which might befall them as a result of the General Strike . |
| 29 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
| 30 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |