Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] they [modal v] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 2 | If the occupier then asks them to leave , they must be allowed a reasonable time to leave , after which they will become trespassers . |
| 3 | The parties should agree a period of time during which they can continue negotiations and the investors can undertake investigations without fear that the target may be sold to a third party . |
| 4 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 5 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 6 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 7 | Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience . |
| 8 | LWT 's managers will end up with between 5 and 15 per cent of the new company depending on the performance in the interim , for which they will pay £3m — £700,000 in cash and £2.3m in forgone share options . |
| 9 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 10 | The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness . |
| 11 | Unfortunately their first action was to ask those already within the system of whom they should make enquiries . |
| 12 | About six feet below them they could hear thumps and scrapes as the luckless Stim dug his way down into the darkness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 17 | They greeted Tommaso unselfconsciously , not like a grown-up visitor of the opposite sex with whom they should use manners . |
| 18 | Senior house officers rarely , if ever , have a named educational supervisor or mentor with whom they can discuss problems about their training . |
| 19 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 20 | As well as having gills , Lungfish have primitive lungs with which they can obtain oxygen from the air . |
| 21 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 22 | The advantage of such a system to trainees building a career lies in the complete flexibility with which they can gain qualifications . |
| 23 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 24 | So in the last half of February Fleischmann and Pons had a detector with which they could count neutrons . |
| 25 | Like Lloyds , a number of banks claim customers will still want old-style cheques because not everyone has an account into which they can pay cheques . |
| 26 | Influencing the attitudes of staff working in the local careers advice service by ensuring that they are provided with up-to-date information of developments in nursing and someone from whom they can seek assistance . |
| 27 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied . |
| 28 | West Midlands bureaux managers may feel proud at the number of workers who reported that they were very satisfied and could think of no way in which they would do things better . |
| 29 | Later that afternoon the duty sergeant allowed him an hour off to dig the grave in which they would bury Private Prescott . |
| 30 | Talk couched in women 's language lacks authority , thus unfitting those who use the language for any position in which they might exercise authority . |