Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 2 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 3 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 4 | Russian designers have certainly taken advantage of anything they could learn from the West . |
| 5 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 6 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 7 | Consumers judge quality by comparing the service they receive against expectations of what they should receive . |
| 8 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 9 | In Denmark seven of the eight parliamentary parties had reached a national compromise on Oct. 27 on additions to the Treaty on the basis of which they would support a second referendum in 1993 [ see also p. 39158 ] . |
| 10 | Training in research methods is part of their preparation for their research projects on the basis of which they will write a dissertation . |
| 11 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 12 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 13 | Many guests visit restaurants with preconceived ideas of what they should eat . |
| 14 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 15 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 16 | It has to be done , thought Taliesin , torn between agony for Fergus and the knowledge of what they must do . |
| 17 | It is not other people or outward events that cause harmful stress , but the way we perceive such external factors and our fears of what they will do to us . |
| 18 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 19 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 20 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 21 | Much of what is approved of may match up in their self-image with how they see their strengths and qualities of which they would like more . |
| 22 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 23 | For them , the cost is this anxiety , and the fact that ( because of the rate of charge on their credit obligations , which commonly is high ) they are poorer , in terms of what they can buy , than they would otherwise have been . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | Suddenly , the division bells ring and the room empties , milords making their way to vote in a debate of which they may have heard not a word . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 28 | In more realistic conditions , however , managers are faced with a complex series of questions in the resolution of which they must exercise choice , for example , about plant location , production methods , employment levels , output , advertising , investment , research and development , and so on . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 30 | The staff of Lothian Highways have many achievements of which they can feel proud . |