Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [pron] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 2 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 5 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 6 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 7 | In short , capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves . |
| 8 | Here are the addresses of prisoners to whom they can be sent : . |
| 9 | The whole thing hidden beneath layers of ice and rock , untraceable from the air : a flexible and formidable system of defences from which they would launch their attack on the Seven . |
| 10 | This leads naturally to a review of the nature and potential of collective actors and the field of action in which they might be engaged . |
| 11 | Progressive emergence of partnership forces , combined with provisional intentions and priorities , will clear the ground for tasks and levels of partnership at which they could be set to be identified . |
| 12 | This study will examine various organisational forms of international collaboration in defence and civilian research and development ( R&D ) and attempt to formulate a set of variables with which they can be evaluated and collaboration as a form of organisation assessed . |
| 13 | Financial institutions such as building societies , banks and insurance companies bought up estate agents to build national networks of offices in which they could sell housing-related financial services . |
| 14 | They did , however have unrealised expectations about the number of clients for whom they would need to provide paid support workers even though they predicted that they would not find it necessary to provide such carers for ail clients . |
| 15 | The whole scene , the bar scene , the prostitution scene , the whole sex scene was enticing , shocking and , at the same time , fascinating but , above all , it was new , and they had no frame of reference with which they could measure it , ’ says Ed Behr . |
| 16 | Fief-rentes provided kings with a pool of mercenaries on whom they could call without having to compete in the open market with other war-lords . |
| 17 | For instance , the panel members in the YPLL study were asked to respond to a number of statements about what they would do if they had a problem . |
| 18 | The victims would resist more if they knew the limits of ill-treatment to which they might be subjected . |
| 19 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 20 | Members also felt the constitution was counter-productive , especially when capital projects called for an injection of cash over which they would have no control , and which was seen as improving someone else 's investment . |
| 21 | In 1341 England and France found both a cause and a theatre of war in which they might meddle further . |
| 22 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 23 | Practically , this is ensured by the governments being composed of parties which have to compete for votes at elections , on the basis of promises about what they will do if they get back into government next time . |
| 24 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 25 | It should be noted that what I have called a two-stage golden thread approach implies that human beings have some kind of control over what they will say is right . |
| 26 | The pressures might be conveniently categorized as follows : duties , obligations , loyalties and convictions , and arguably that is the order of priority in which they should be followed . |
| 27 | The way to make NoS popular was to put lots of people in it They could be used to bring home the sort of things which should be exposed and campaigned about in the paper — like housing conditions , or unemployment . |
| 28 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |
| 29 | There are a number of ways in which they might become interested in the subject . |
| 30 | Whites and Asians entertain a variety of ways in which they can advance , usually locating their careers in some long-term perspective and thus making security an important consideration . |