Example sentences of "which they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 2 | However wise and fairminded we are , anyone can suddenly find themselves in a fight for which they 've never bargained . |
| 3 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 4 | It 's hideous , except for the logo which they 've almost destroyed . |
| 5 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 6 | Conversely , many headquarters staff saw those in the field as too narrowly concerned with the running of their own prison establishments , and resistant to any suggestion that they should be called to account for the extent to which they implemented nationally agreed policies . |
| 7 | Even if cosy was n't the word she would have applied to the conservatory opening out before her she could see it was a little more intimate than the vast medieval refectory in which they 'd previously dined . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , they investigated , and apparently it was quite easy , because it was a very distinctive typeface , which they 'd only used on one machine . |
| 9 | A cluster of keys which they 'd never found doors to fit ; instruction documents for a blender he 'd burned out making midnight margaritas ; a plastic bottle of massage oil . |
| 10 | Indeed , the term ‘ dramatic statement ’ , to which they become quite attached as the book proceeds , perhaps takes us too firmly in the direction of propositional knowledge translated into dramatic coding . |
| 11 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 12 | Signs like these were enough to convince educated contemporaries that it was worth trying to maintain the pressure on the authorities which they had already begun to generate . |
| 13 | Water from the Arghuri brook , thought Miss Logan ; or perhaps that sourish milk which they had already received many times on their travels from obliging shepherds . |
| 14 | These sums were separate from the 128,300 million yen which they had already confessed to paying between 1987 and 1990 , and which had been revealed in July 1991 [ see p. 38342 ] . |
| 15 | Even allowing for the fact that Orphism , as the most recent artistic novelty , was attracting the attention of a press and public made restless and sensation-hungry by the numerous artistic upheavals which the twentieth century had already witnessed , the fact is that by 1914 the abstract tendencies in European painting were already assuming an importance second only to that of Cubism from which they had largely sprung . |
| 16 | Interesting that the offices of Yeo Davis should be very much less at the leading edge of modern design than the solicitors ' which they had just seen , McLeish thought , and murmured as much to Catherine Crane , who laughed . |
| 17 | ‘ When she started to cry they offered to help wipe her eyes and used a piece of soiled paper which they had just picked up . |
| 18 | Dhani gestured to the door through which they had just come and said , ‘ That door then ? ’ |
| 19 | There are a number of inconsistencies in that scheme , not least British Gas ' delightful decision to interpret the er scheme in a way which they had n't interpreted six months ago . |
| 20 | China , India and Zimbabwe abstained from voting because the text referred to Resolution 770 of Aug. 13 , on which they had also abstained [ see p. 39035 ] . |
| 21 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 22 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 23 | The pub at which they had finally arrived and had their pints had been serving up bar meals . |
| 24 | Very few environmentalists would choose to engage in a debate about the extent to which they had either succeeded or sold out . |
| 25 | All were trapped in something inhuman , into which they had dumbly delivered themselves . |
| 26 | In November 1989 the 300 remaining squatters in Amsterdam were evicted , amid serious disturbances , from the buildings which they had illegally occupied for many years . |
| 27 | Improbable though it may sound , Rutland men found themselves having , with ‘ much heauiness ’ , to fork out on the basis of the full value of their property which they had unguardedly divulged . |
| 28 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 29 | Similarly , in Bowes v Sedgefield DC [ 1981 ] ICR 234 the defendants were not allowed to rely on a statutory defence at trial which they had not pleaded . |
| 30 | The historian was at his best , he maintained , not as an analyst but as ‘ a craftsman of synthesis , a weaver of other men 's threads ( and some of his own ) into patterns which they had not foreseen or even suspected ’ ; and he was forthright in claiming , at a time when it was not fashionable , that the contemporary historian was just as capable of such synthesis as historians of earlier centuries . |