Example sentences of "which they [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This later point reflects the concern voiced by this administration to reduce the ‘ dependency culture ’ which they felt was promoted by universal and ‘ overgenerous ’ state welfare systems . |
| 2 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 3 | Erm so the Communist Party , to try to counter this sort of erm advance of the rich peasant economy which they saw was getting a bit too far , tried to encourage the formation of mutual aid teams erm but they were very , there were problems in that in erm the implementation of this because peasants were unwilling to share their tools , they were n't compensated for it . |
| 4 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 5 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |
| 6 | Police are investigating the blaze which they said was started in ‘ suspicious circumstances . ’ |
| 7 | Opposition MPs claimed that the move was just another way of ‘ putting the boot in ’ to the unions , which they said were loathed and detested by the Government . |
| 8 | The difference remains when the age at which they die is taken into account . |
| 9 | Let one such ordinand have the last word : ‘ If a student leaves college as a musical novice ( both in terms of their own singing ability and their ability to select music for worship ) then the worship of the churches in which they serve is going to be severely disadvantaged … |
| 10 | Navajo Indians in Arizona have launched a campaign against mining activities which they claim are polluting water supplies , interfering with sacred sites and threatening local sheep farmers with coal dust poisoning . |
| 11 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 12 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 13 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 14 | The Brahmins were custodians of the law , and the legal system which they administered was based largely on their pronouncements . |
| 15 | In many Third World countries national liberation movements which failed to create effective political parties were either taken over by military elites or else the governments which they formed were overthrown by military coups . |
| 16 | Another highly important fact is that some sets of cross- references taken together would actually reveal inadequacies in the way in which the material to which they refer is handled in the dictionary in its present form . |
| 17 | , Small birds , including great tits and bluetits , are unable to rear so many young because the caterpillars on which they depend are developing faster in the warmer summers . |
| 18 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 19 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 20 | Also , of course , the ferment in the universities was in part a revolt against the technocratic role which they had been assigned in the Wilsonian scheme of things . |
| 21 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 22 | Odd , I thought , as I confirmed the number which they had been given . |
| 23 | One has seen people from the shop floor sent to help start up plants overseas , and seen them rapidly take responsibilities far beyond those which they had been given in their home organization . |
| 24 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 25 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 26 | Both Hastings and McGeechan ranked the Scottish effort as one of the finest in which they had been involved . |
| 27 | Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes . |
| 28 | The tree to which they had been tethered was still there , but the horses had disappeared . |
| 29 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 30 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |