Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] which [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also already evidence that healthier lifestyles at early ages — including , in particular , abstention from smoking , a reduction in alcohol consumption , more controlled eating , and regular exercise — are now being adopted , and it is probable that they will improve health at a later stage for the cohorts which adopt them . |
| 2 | The lessons are reinforced by a booklet for the pupils and a separate leaflet for the parents which encourages them to discuss smoking with their children . |
| 3 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 4 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 5 | This is the unemployment , sometimes called frictional unemployment , which occurs because workers are searching for the jobs which suit them best . |
| 6 | Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert . |
| 7 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 8 | We have to encourage counsellees that talking about the issues which worry them might be helpful . |
| 9 | Although every moment of the lovers ' experience is drenched in imagery , there is still a fine feeling of reality about the characters which gives them bone and muscle . |
| 10 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 11 | Whereas for Marxist-Leninists , the nationalization of property in the hands of a workers ' State ensured that through the institutions which represented them — the State , the party , the soviets and the trade unions — the working masses were now in command , for libertarians this represented little more than a ‘ change of guard ’ . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , these trends should not be overlooked : there has been a tendency to stop at the recognition of particular forms of arrangement etc. , with little account of the developments which connect them . |
| 13 | The court accepted that an alteration of the goods which causes them to tell a lie about themselves may be a false description . |
| 14 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 15 | Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness . |
| 16 | They scarcely knew the man — and , no doubt , curiosity was one of the things which brought them out into the streets to see him . |
| 17 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 18 | Although a number of visitors had spontaneously mentioned the quality of the labels as one of the factors which attracted them to the exhibitions , the questionnaire also contained a specific question on the adequacy of the labels accompanying exhibits . |
| 19 | Apart from cleaning each pane , they take photographs of the windows which help them paint in missing images , in keeping with the overall style . |
| 20 | Partners have to reach a common understanding of good learning environments and of the conditions which produce them in order that they may jointly promote them . |
| 21 | There are no animal derived ingredients in any of the products which make them ideal for vegetarians and all formulations meet with BAUV standards . |
| 22 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 23 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that these two projects could form a pincer movement to circumscribe the operations of hierarchic managements pursuing the profitability of the enterprises which employ them without regard to the interests of working people , and therefore to reconstruct the impersonal possession of the means of production in the direction of ( socialist ) social appropriation . |
| 25 | Now , as she cautiously peered behind , she began to see the shadows in the trees , the gaunt and sinewy shapes of the mythagos which followed them , darting from shadow place to shadow place . |
| 26 | Their relative independence of the councils which set them up means that deals can be negotiated and long-term arrangements achieved which do not depend on detailed discussion through council committee . |
| 27 | ‘ In the 19th century , a series of cases forced upon the Commons and courts a comprehensive review of the issues which divided them , from which it became clear that some of the earlier claims to jurisdiction made in the name of privilege by the House of Commons were untenable in a court of law : that the law of Parliament was part of the general law , that its principles were not beyond the judicial knowledge of the judges , and that it was the duty of the common law to define its limits could no longer be disputed . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the consumers themselves and some of the organisations which represent them have fallen into the trap of confusing short-term expediencies with long-term solutions and now find that this focus on concessions may have actually distorted the argument for a decent income in later life . |
| 29 | Many professional archivists and records managers , who see their role as facilitating the work of the organisations which employ them , would probably say that the PRO had no right to do so . |
| 30 | Its objects , like the houses which contained them , were solid , a term used , characteristically , as the highest praise for a business enterprise . |