Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When life brings them into touch again twenty years later , and they are hopelessly in love , a climactic scene takes place in an inferior tea-shop which they visit during a furtive day together in London . |
| 2 | This attitude was by no means confined to educated sceptics ; it was probably even more marked among the urban proletariat , who had largely abandoned churchgoing and were alienated from the established Church , which they identified with a repressive economic and social system . |
| 3 | At Cromwell Road the students made use of the first floor which had a magnificent music room and a ballroom which they loaned to the Senior Common Room for the purposes of the annual Royal College Charity Ball which rivalled the Chelsea Arts Ball . |
| 4 | In the round before they attack , the valley is filled with their bizarre hoots and screeches , which they use in the same manner as bats to navigate and locate their prey . |
| 5 | When these enterprises do manage to take hold the next key question is the extent to which they hire from the local community and from disadvantaged groups ( e.g. the long-term unemployed ) . |
| 6 | The Die-hards were opposed to the rise of a socialist Labour party and militant trade unionism , which they saw as a revolutionary threat to property and the stability of British society . |
| 7 | The regular , monotonous monastic discipline gave the monks a peace and equanimity which they saw as a tranquil experience of God which was fully in tune with their normal lives . |
| 8 | In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs . |
| 9 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
| 10 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 11 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 12 | The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 13 | After trying every aquatic shop in the area , I decided to write directly to the manager of Trilcot and within a week I was able to collect an excellent piece of wood which they sent to a nearby store . |
| 14 | Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 15 | In the western provinces , where the Christian population was overwhelmingly Catholic or in communion with Rome , peasants were refusing to fulfil the economic obligations which they owed to the Orthodox clergy . |
| 16 | For the past decade , the two have been exploring the boundaries of costume exhibitions at New York 's Fashion Institute of Technology , from which they come with a dazzling reputation . |
| 17 | It is very difficult , particularly for those who work in a stuffy , overcrowded office , to which they commute on a stuffy overcrowded train , successfully to avoid catching cold or other viruses . |
| 18 | The control the Scots ' pack brought to proceedings — principally from the platform of the lineout which they took by a conclusive 30-16 margin ( Doddie Weir and Damian Cronin pouching ten takes each ) , yet also in the alacrity with which they arrived at breakdown — left the Welsh utterly befuddled . |
| 19 | The two men , also squatting , are thrown flesh and bones which they pound in the bowl-like depressions . |
| 20 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats are united in supporting the scheme for devolution which they developed in the Scottish Constitutional Convention . |
| 21 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 22 | Kabbalists and Sufis were often moved by the ideas of the Jewish and Muslim rationalists , which they translated into a mystical mode . |
| 23 | The channels with which each of the tanks connect at the upper level , and into which they immerse at the lower , lie parallel to one another , but the entrances to each of the upper channels , against which the appropriate tank abuts , are the width of an entire plane apart . |
| 24 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 25 | Departments and the fields which they contribute to the Modular Course are not free agents , either in terms of conformity to Course regulations or in being able to project student numbers in isolation . |
| 26 | Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness . |
| 27 | Lyles stand reported good interest and considerable activity at the show which they judged as a successful exhibition . |
| 28 | They became involved in sustaining the feudal superiorities from which they profited in a small way . |
| 29 | Charles and Arthur Wilson were made full partners in 1867 and were by this time effectively running the company , which they transformed from a major European enterprise into an international one with routes to North America and India . |
| 30 | Again , few long-standing customers will surely want to compromise their future bargaining position by revealing to the court the true weight which they gave to the various considerations before them prior to the placing of interim contracts with the employer . |