Example sentences of "which their [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for excessive caution on the part of magistrates when dealing with bail applications in the past was the lack of adequate information about defendants , their home circumstances , or the circumstances in which their offence had been committed — information which can help the court assess the defendants ' chances of absconding or re-offending while on bail . |
| 2 | They left the cottage , leaving a grateful if sad couple who were quite amazed at the way in which their problem had been solved . |
| 3 | To suggest that things might have been otherwise had important individuals or groups behaved differently is to ignore the situation within which they were acting , their perceptions of it and the traditions within which their outlook had been formed . |
| 4 | Loggers argued passionately for allowing cutting to continue on economic grounds , but were opposed by fishing industry representatives , who claimed that the populations of salmon on which their work depended were plummeting as a result of their breeding streams becoming silted up due to logging . |
| 5 | They came armed with batteries of attorneys , British and American , merchant bank and investment bank advisers and the way in which their participation developed was immensely thorough . |
| 6 | The re-establishment of religious communities within Anglicanism has taken place only since the middle of the last century , and the tradition upon which their founders drew was mainly that of the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 7 | The finding in Sir David Calcutt 's report on privacy and the press that the Press Complaints Commission 's lay members were dominated by the industry was baseless , Lord McGregor said , as their standing in the worlds in which their reputations had been made ensured they would never kowtow to proprietors or editors . |
| 8 | Again they heard the allegations against them on the basis of which their children had been taken away . |