Example sentences of "which they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've set aside thousands of tonnes of salt which they 'll dump on icy road surfaces to make driving safer . |
| 2 | Having played a major role in Middlesbrough 's promotion to the UK League , in which they 'll start as a Division Four team this summer , Stuart now finds herself number one sprinter with the champions of the past three years . |
| 3 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | In the UK , Sun Microsystems ' drive to flush out some of the value-added resellers which it says do n't actually offer any value-add ( UX No 399 ) , will take the form of a new contract which they 'll have to sign to become authorised VARs . |
| 5 | They learn who the residents are , where they sleep and any particular problems which they might meet straight away . ’ |
| 6 | The evaluators observed one course which was devoted to showing teachers from prospective Major Project schools a variety of worksheets , project books and software on which they might choose to spend some of their grant , and another in which nationally known figures ( Royston McHugh from the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) and Ron Mitson from the Abraham Moss Centre ) sought to inspire a good attendance with the philosophy of a more broadly conceived RBL . |
| 7 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |
| 8 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 9 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 10 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 11 | References to the ‘ incomers ’ are phrased in terms of the benefits which they might bring . |
| 12 | The great families of Rome had fortified towers or residences from which they might control the main routes in and out of the city . |
| 13 | Talk couched in women 's language lacks authority , thus unfitting those who use the language for any position in which they might exercise authority . |
| 14 | Mill wanted to protect children against the harm which they might do themselves . |
| 15 | Mr Davies has now written to me in connection with his research on BCR , saying — ‘ if anyone would like to help I can certainly suggest ways in which they might do so . |
| 16 | The argument runs that annuity rates have come down ( which they have done ) and that , therefore , they will go back up again ( which they might do , or they might go down further ) . |
| 17 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 18 | In general , from 1450 onwards , non-European Christians were taught theology to a level at which they might function as parish priests , but they were not admitted to the religious orders such as the Jesuits and the Dominicans . |
| 19 | It can hardly be of great value to them out on the open ocean where they spend the bulk of their time , except perhaps to detect the stench of a floating carcass on which they might feed . |
| 20 | Trainee consultants need to appreciate that the procedure of informing an interested school of the different structures that have been found to work well in different settings , and of inviting the school to decide which they might wish to develop in the first instance , is in itself an important part of preparing a supportive climate . |
| 21 | It also seems that it might be helpful if teachers were aware of those among their pupils with particularly unsupportive home lives , that is , with few sources outside school from which they might derive a sense of their own value . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Students should be made aware of the above criteria and should be encouraged to carry out their own evaluation of any potential investigation which they might use for summative assessment purposes . |
| 24 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 25 | I could n't possibly compete in those stakes , so I racked my brain to think of small things which they might like . |
| 26 | On another matter , I received from Wyre Borough Council details of the funding scheme for projects under the Rural Development Programme and I enclose a copy in case the PCC have any ideas which they might like to put forward . |
| 27 | By contrast in Kufra people did acknowledge circumstances in which they might have to unite with their enemies ; in 1978 they did in fact do so . |
| 28 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 29 | Although Beckenham U.D.C. had powers to construct a tramway system , which they might have leased to the B.E.T. , and had built a power station in Churchfields Road , they now had second thoughts about tramways and were thinking in terms of permitting the B.E.T . |
| 30 | When Reid ( 1986 ) identified seven causes of disruptive behaviour ( underachievement , the family , links between school and parents , peer group relationships , the gulf between the general public and teachers , schooling per se and teachers ) , I believe that he highlighted the very issues schools need to turn their attention to and over which they might have significant influence . |