Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | A succession of rescheduling deals , known by the places — Toronto , Trinidad — in which creditors dreamt them up , have been proposed in recent years . |
| 2 | It is likely that the protein/fibre ratios for mature leaves represent the degree to which colobines avoid them and rely on more limited and seasonal resources with a concomitant decrease in population density notably at times when the preferred foods are scarce , especially at Sepilok and in Gabon . |
| 3 | This will be investigated to see whether this is an optimism bias in which individuals perceive they are less vulnerable than other people to negative life events or whether this is an illusion of control bias which people overestimate their own abilities . |
| 4 | Yet it was accepted privately within the industry that their ‘ promotional ’ pricing could be below cost in order to compete with gas ( precisely the kind of uneconomic cross-subsidy of which critics accused them ) . |
| 5 | It binds IGG , one of the major immunoglobulins produced by the human blood in response to attack from outside and which doctors think they be destroying the AIDS patients ' own tissues . |
| 6 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 7 | And when officers went into a tent they found Peter Jones inside with over £300 in cash in his pockets and drugs which police claim they saw him drop . |
| 8 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 9 | He 'll definitely be playing for the French next week and they would n't even confirm that he 'd been banned from the scum 's next 4 matches in Europe ( which ones did they have in mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ) . |
| 10 | Which ones do they ? |
| 11 | They claimed that records of tests which nurses said they carried out on Mrs Bennett had gone missing from the Royal , and details of her case presented to the coroner differed from what they had been told . |
| 12 | Why are statistics not kept of trainees whose employers give them full-time jobs later ? |
| 13 | The governor had other officials whose posts entitled them to sit in his executive council , but although they might have looked like potential ministers the legislative assemblies could not use them to control the governor and , as the governor had no automatic right to dismiss his councillors , he could not use them as his ministers either . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) those whose circumstances make them highly likely to experience an event to which they are particularly vulnerable ; |
| 16 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 17 | Various doctors have described cases of children whose parents believe them to have food sensitivity , but where no consistent reaction to a food can be shown . |
| 18 | In those circumstances , training programmes must take account of the training needs and welfare of employees whose duties require them to use physical restraint alongside interpersonal skills . |
| 19 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 20 | For she was one of those born failures as a disciplinarian , one of those teachers whose classes know they can do anything they want . |
| 21 | At the foot of the stairs , a couple of officers of the Grand Army , whose epaulettes proclaimed them members of Davout 's staff , were talking to an ashen-faced Moreau . |
| 22 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 23 | Assistant Company Secretary Dr Jean MacDonald recently conducted two seminars at Hunterston for managers whose responsibilities involve them with contractors and sub-contractors . |
| 24 | The disciplines of sociology and philosophy are threatened by Mannheim 's proposals since , in his account , they are the formal and scientific disciplines whose topics mean they are the most likely to be affected by non-theoretical factors . |
| 25 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 26 | Ethnic minority elders The triple jeopardy of those from ethnic minority groups , discussed in Chapter 3 extends to those elders whose families find they are unable to care for them . |
| 27 | We get scabies , and we have internal worms , and for those of us whose interests bring them close to mammals or birds , parasites can be just a part of the job . |
| 28 | Conversely , Goody himself recognises that ‘ In non-literate society … there are usually some individuals whose interests lead them to collect , analyse and interpret the cultural tradition in a personal way ’ and the work of his fellow anthropologists is ample testimony to the variation and potential for challenge in non-literate societies . |
| 29 | More cubs will be reared by cheetahs whose genes equip them with the optimum compromise between running speed , milk production and all the other calls on their budget . |
| 30 | Coffin and Inspector Paul Lane were talking privately over a drink in the Victory Arms , a pub whose windows gave them a view of the sails of the Cutty Sark . |