Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barro 's question is as follows : Why should firms agree to a course of action which they know in certain circumstances will force them to do something which in advance or ex ante appears sub-optimal ? |
| 2 | But while concern should motivate people , it should n't encourage them to switch off the reasonableness which they apply in other areas . ’ |
| 3 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
| 4 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 5 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 6 | Both teachers keep on their desks , beside the National Curriculum ring binders , the registers and all the other tedious impedimenta of a teacher 's working life , a pile of books of poems , which they use for short sections of time throughout the day . |
| 7 | It is not impossible that nationalism will decline with the decline of the nation-state , without which being English or Irish or Jewish , or a combination of all these , is only one way in which people describe their identity among the many others which they use for this purpose , as occasion demands . |
| 8 | The power of TNCs is very great because of the number of factories , warehouses , offices and research laboratories which they control in different countries . |
| 9 | When they began to travel abroad they invested in a couple of suits and a jacket which they passed around each other . |
| 10 | Perhaps the key way to establish a connection between the concerns of conventional Marxist urban and regional sociology and the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 is to concentrate on typical forms of social mobility ; the ways in which they relate to spatial mobility and moral careers . |
| 11 | The price at which they bid for these bills determines the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 12 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 13 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 14 | The ganglion cells are the neurons which communicate with the brain by propagating impulses up their axons , while their dendrites detect patterns of excitation in the photoreceptors , to which they connect through intermediate cells . |
| 15 | A sort of sponge , low and crusty and golden , which they ate with apricot jam . |
| 16 | Greatswords are armed with a huge double-handed sword — or greatsword — which they swing with devastating effect . |
| 17 | Although large tree-nesting birds — wood pigeons , rooks , storks or eagles — do only the minimum to soften the uneven surface of their platform nests , many smaller birds with delicate eggs fashion a cup in the centre of the nest which they line with softer material . |
| 18 | The two broad categories of plants designated C 3 and C 4 differ in the biochemical pathways through which they fix carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and so differ in the degree to which they benefit from increased carbon dioxide . |
| 19 | Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base . |
| 20 | If cars joining a crowded road take no account of the extent to which they slow down other road users , it may be almost impossible to rush from car to car offering or collecting bribes ! |
| 21 | The obvious example is Australia , which was separated early , and in which the marsupial mammals had the opportunity to adapt to a whole range of ecological niches , which they managed with remarkable success in spite of a low cranial capacity and a primitive mode of reproduction . |
| 22 | In assessing the relative efficiency of alternative forms of hierarchy , the extent to which they economize on bounded rationality and control opportunism is of some importance . |
| 23 | This project aims to explore what teachers implementing the programmes assume about the way children learn , how they interpret the differences among their pupils ( in the new atmosphere which emphasises ‘ attainment targets ’ ) and the ways in which they cater for those differences . |
| 24 | They eat plants and animals which they kill with poisoned arrows . |
| 25 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 26 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 27 | Of climbing Ratagan ( which they spelt in different ways : Boswell , ‘ Ratakin' : Johnson , ‘ Ratiken ’ ) in the early afternoon , Johnson confided in Mrs Thrale ( to whom he spells it ‘ Rattiken ’ ) ‘ more difficulty than we had yet experienced ’ , a formidable demur , given the harshness of the ride out from Fort Augustus to Anoch . |
| 28 | The influence of his teacher , Dvorak , hangs over the Serenade in E flat , but it is a bright , attractively varied piece which they played with fine control , rich sonorities , and exemplary attention to dynamics and rhythm . |
| 29 | One danger with this emphasis on the language of adults is that it easily leads to the conclusion that adults actually cause developmental progress by the way in which they speak to young children . |
| 30 | I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition . |