Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [Wh det] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
| 2 | Not the basement from which they 'd come , with its shattered windows giving further access to this horror … not the service/access corridor with its hideous wall-bound parody of Farley Peters … but the door next to the basement door marked : ‘ Stairs ’ . |
| 3 | Later that afternoon the duty sergeant allowed him an hour off to dig the grave in which they would bury Private Prescott . |
| 4 | The signs of the coefficients on t and P t are correct , but those on σ and k are the opposite of what they should be . |
| 5 | So I ‘ open it an inch ’ and thus I delay further , giving them time to take it all in and to adjust to the exposure to what they must ultimately cope with : the witch addressing them directly . |
| 6 | Many of these ideas using sentimental flowers take some extra thought and planning , but the end result , and the enthusiasm with which they will be received , is well worth the effort . |
| 7 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 8 | Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted . |
| 9 | In the same way , human beings differ from one another in their ability to handle stress and the level at which they can cope comfortably . |
| 10 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 11 | Yet they can come to see one opponent as the rock upon which they will undoubtedly founder . |
| 12 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |
| 13 | They build criteria for studying approaches to supporting the children in reading in the schools in which they will work . |
| 14 | All such options need to be examined for their effectiveness in reducing emissions so as to achieve air quality standards , as well as for their technical and economic feasibility , the speed with which they can be implemented , and their enforceability . |
| 15 | Earls Court made a successful return to hosting seated events last year , in a move made possible by new developments in demountable seating and the speed with which they can be constructed and dismantled . |
| 16 | We have seen by now in a good number of cases , including those immediately above , that when one takes account of the interaction between the meanings of particular words and the value of the constructions in which they may be used , it is often easy to see why certain structures are grammatical , and others are not ; this may enable us to say in turn why other related structures are ungrammatical . |
| 17 | The mist obscures their support crews and steals blankly between the men and the homes in which they will sleep . |
| 18 | He may receive suggestions from the parties on which they may agree and which he can adopt . |
| 19 | The structure of dialogue , moreover , disallows the taking up of any position beyond the interlocutors from which they can be integrated into a larger totality . |
| 20 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 21 | Lord Parker and the third Privy Councillor ( Mr J. A. Boyd-Carpenter ) concluded that these methods , subject to proper safeguards , and limiting the occasions on which and the degree to which they could be applied , conformed to the authority given . |
| 22 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 23 | At the appropriate times of the year , caged migrant birds regularly hop in the direction relative to the sun in which they would normally migrate . |
| 24 | Those of today have always had some evaluation , but seldom enough to cover all the circumstances in which they may be used , and they include many of such potency that their misuse can have dire consequences . |
| 25 | Major banks and building societies have found that establishing offshore branches gives them far greater scope to offer accounts that pay interest gross ; within the UK the circumstances in which they may do this are very limited . |
| 26 | That is not an unreasonable thing to do when one considers the circumstances in which they might be living . |
| 27 | The reporting of the crime is on the one hand an excuse for sexual titillation and on the other a misleading warning to women as to the circumstances in which they will be raped and how to avoid it . |
| 28 | Peacock ( 1974 ) suggests that the appropriate view is that the current generation is choosing to sacrifice current consumption to internalize its concern for future generations and therefore can be legitimately viewed as gaining from capital expenditure the fruits of which they may not actually sample . |
| 29 | These people would not be trained in law ; they would represent the interests , the social groupings and the nature of the community in which they would serve . |
| 30 | The level of demand is to do not only with the tasks as they are done but also with the duration for which they must continue to be done . |