Example sentences of "[pron] they [modal v] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk couched in women 's language lacks authority , thus unfitting those who use the language for any position in which they might exercise authority . |
| 2 | Other objectives include " promotion of correct library behaviour " , coordinating the library 's work with that of county providers and ensuring " that staff are helped to relate Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers to those subject areas which they might require pupils to research or refer to " ( Proposal document ) . |
| 3 | West Midlands bureaux managers may feel proud at the number of workers who reported that they were very satisfied and could think of no way in which they would do things better . |
| 4 | Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience . |
| 5 | Later that afternoon the duty sergeant allowed him an hour off to dig the grave in which they would bury Private Prescott . |
| 6 | The unfortunates were sent over to the other building from which they would ring clients who owed money , and would demand of them immediate payment . |
| 7 | The researcher conducting this case ( Wobbe-Ohlenburg 1982 ) comments that much of the publicity about using robots in factories emphasises the way in which they can make life more pleasant for humans by taking over the dirty , dangerous , or monotonously repetitive jobs . |
| 8 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 9 | I think that the mass of the people , as far as I can see , want the state where they can er well economic climate in which they can make money for themselves and get on top . |
| 10 | In the same way it is suspicious of women , and the way in which they can transform tears into a source of erotic and celebratory power that can lead to resurrection . |
| 11 | Their most important asset is the way in which they can deflect light . |
| 12 | Some owners of compound eyes have another bonus to compensate for their poor resolution , and that is the rate at which they can perceive images . |
| 13 | The parties should agree a period of time during which they can continue negotiations and the investors can undertake investigations without fear that the target may be sold to a third party . |
| 14 | Private firms should invest if the rate of return on the project exceeds the market interest rate at which they can borrow funds . |
| 15 | This quality of inclusion signifies the sense of the collective that women have , and from which they can draw strength in their lives . |
| 16 | Hence it remains necessary to explain in further detail the present legal provisions and to highlight some of the problems to which they can give rise . |
| 17 | and my Lord in relation the provisions of the Lloyd 's Act and the er byelaws that are linked into solvency and the maintenance of er , er adequate fund and the payment of policy holders , in my submission constitute the implementation of that directive and those obligations er in , er relation to the society and that is perfectly compatible with community law er it is er the states er have variety of ways in which they can give effect er to community obligations . |
| 18 | They are prevented from entering what appears to them the more appealing world of work , a world in which they can earn independence and the goods that money can buy . |
| 19 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 20 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 21 | Like Lloyds , a number of banks claim customers will still want old-style cheques because not everyone has an account into which they can pay cheques . |
| 22 | The rate of reproduction by females is limited by the rate at which they can produce eggs , not by the rate at which they copulate . |
| 23 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 24 | It has to be remembered that children love an exercise in which they can get things right , or , of course , wrong . |
| 25 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 26 | The advantage of such a system to trainees building a career lies in the complete flexibility with which they can gain qualifications . |
| 27 | What we are talking about today is the need to ensure that bad cases do not elude tough penalties , because the present law puts burdens on the police and prosecution which they can have difficulty in discharging . |
| 28 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 29 | Grade Two studying next to a ditch in which they can take cover if the planes should strike today . |
| 30 | As well as having gills , Lungfish have primitive lungs with which they can obtain oxygen from the air . |