Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among their feudal ancestors however the long time during which estates used to continue in the same family sufficiently demonstrated the general disposition of people to live within their income . |
| 2 | In the meantime a slight democratising was considered , but not pursued , that of allowing the members to choose which bondholders might serve on the Committee by selecting the requisite number from a list supplied by the bondholders . |
| 3 | The extent to which authorities can achieve gains depends , of course , on their bargaining power , which in turn may be related to current ( and local ) economic conditions . |
| 4 | Therefore , while it is impossible to ‘ reduce ’ rights , status , etc. , to duties , it is possible to explain ‘ authority ’ by explaining the sense in which authorities can impose duties . |
| 5 | The initiatives which authorities should aim to develop include : |
| 6 | The service conception is a normative doctrine about the conditions under which authority is legitimate and the manner in which authorities should conduct themselves . |
| 7 | The scheme was not greatly used and was complemented by a Voluntary Advice Scheme under which solicitors would give up to half-hour 's advice for a fiat fee of £1 paid by the client irrespective of means . |
| 8 | ‘ There should be a much higher threshold at which solicitors would need to consult the board . |
| 9 | They also raised for consideration the possibility of reducing the period beyond the end of the accounting year in which solicitors must submit their report from 6 to 3 months . |
| 10 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 11 | Erm it 's one of life 's conundrums , there are of course answers which solicitors should know about . |
| 12 | Contestants would engage in three types of contest : close combat , in which knights would fight on foot with blunted daggers , swords or spears ; jousting or tilting , in which mounted knights on either side of a low barrier would charge each other with blunted lances ; and contests of skill in which mounted knights would attempt to skewer rings from posts . |
| 13 | There was a small gallery at one end which musicians would use and , at the other , against a wooden panelled wall , the dais and high table . |
| 14 | The balance between , on the one hand , presumptions as to freedom of contract and the protection of private property rights unless due compensation is paid , and the overall direction of the planning system is a complex one on which opinions may differ . |
| 15 | Decorated metalwork and pottery can , in addition , be studied by the measurement of elements in designs to determine which objects may have been made at the same source , using the same tools , or even by the same craftsman . |
| 16 | If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany . |
| 17 | Professor Hoskins perceived the compulsion under which labourers might enter the world of the money wage and the cash purchase when he assessed the impact of " agricultural improvement " on the village of Wigston in Leicestershire . |
| 18 | But one problem which employers may face is employees ' reluctance to move to a cheaper area as they can foresee the difficulty of moving back into a high-priced housing area later on . |
| 19 | So far , there has been no review of the way in which the British procedures operate and what the consequences are should a pupil be wrongly failed at a particular level which employers may come to accept as appropriate for some jobs . |
| 20 | If you do not feel you are a thrusting , dynamic sort of person you may possess different but equally desirable qualities which employers will want . |
| 21 | TECs are regarded both as regulators of the local training market in the transition between education , training and employment and as the channel through which employers can influence the vocational education and training system . |
| 22 | There are several ways in which employers can take a positive lead in , lead by organizing awareness training . |
| 23 | Industrial agreements on minimum wages were imposed by employers ' confederations , dominated by small firms , which set them ‘ at rates which employers could afford to pay ’ ( Kendall , 1975 p. 164 ) . |
| 24 | The Resource Options Programme is concerned to analyse the scope for and constraints upon ethnicity as a principle of economic organisation and group identity , paying special attention to localism as an alternative principle by which groups may organise or identify for particular purposes . |
| 25 | The offer , reported by the official ADN news agency , contained no date for such negotiations , nor did it specify which groups should take part . |
| 26 | Sequestration is a penalty which courts may impose where an organisation or individual commits contempt of court . |
| 27 | This sets out the basic principles upon which courts must decide issues relating to the upbringing of children . |
| 28 | Some legislative attempts have been made to structure the exercise of sentencing discretion by setting out the criteria which courts should apply when deciding on a sentence , but these , too , are limited in scope . |
| 29 | A unitary system , the sovereignty of Parliament usually wielded by a one-party majority , Treasury control of national finance , the absence of a written constitution or a Bill of Rights which courts can use to challenge the government , and the idea that extra-parliamentary party organs are merely ‘ handmaidens ’ of the parliamentary party all bear witness to this centralization . |
| 30 | What is required here are rules which courts can use to distinguish between legal and illegal armed conflicts , and between legal and illegal methods of conducting legal armed conflicts . |