Example sentences of "which they have [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am concerned that I have recently received from the National Westminster Bank an invoice for £10.58 which they have debited from the Parish Council account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ , apparently on your instructions . |
| 2 | That removes the Government 's mask which they have worn over the past few months as they have tried to pursue the idea of cheap gas . |
| 3 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 4 | Outgoing tenants may , under the 1954 Act , claim compensation from the landlord for any alterations or improvements which they have made to the premises where these have increased the letting value of the premises . |
| 5 | Students will be asked to identify the contribution of residential experience to their own personal and social development and to identify the contribution which they have made to the residential experience . |
| 6 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 7 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |
| 8 | A much more specific fear was that young people would be provoked into imitative crime by the daring exploits witnessed on the screen , and the National Council of Public Morals addressed itself with particular vigour to the belief ‘ that the picture house is responsible for the increase in juvenile crime , and that boys are often led to imitate crimes ( larceny or burglary ) which they have seen in the pictures , or to steal money that they may pay for admission , . |
| 9 | The reason for such an uncompromising policy is made plain : ‘ … that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods , and so to sin against the Lord your God ’ ( 20.18 ; see7.4 ) . |
| 10 | Even living statesmen are now encouraged to record on tape their comments on events which they have observed for the benefit of archives of sound-recording . |
| 11 | Looseknit networks are hard to deal with chiefly because a multi-valued speaker variable like social network involves comparing speakers who differ from each other in certain respects — let us say in respect of the multiplexity of the ties which they have contracted at the workplace — but are still similar enough to each other in other related respects to make such a comparison meaningful . |
| 12 | I hope that he will also accept that Conservative Members have used the existing procedure to delay legislation which they have disliked over the years , which is why we want to change it . |
| 13 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 14 | It is tragic that any Government should , with such equanimity , be prepared to take away the rights of working people and the right to peace of mind for which they have paid over the years . |