Example sentences of "what they [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he argues that the benefits were ‘ too small and too short-term for us to know what they meant in the long-term ’ . |
| 2 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 3 | Those who were called upon to defend non-payment of what they owed beyond the promised date were , as they had always been and were to go on being , in the minority . |
| 4 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 5 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 6 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 7 | Thus Attoh Ahuma ( who was also known as a clergyman , the Revd S.R.B. Solomon ) joined with another local churchman , the Revd Eggijir Assam , to launch the Gold Coast Aborigine , in which they promised to redress what they saw as the colonial imbalance in the education of local Africans : |
| 8 | Meanwhile , significant groups of intellectuals and artists , often in a somewhat modish , self-conscious way which attracted derision in the press , seemed to move away from identification with their society , so alien to their instincts did what they saw as the unacceptable , philistine face of Thatcherism appear to be . |
| 9 | It shows what they saw as the moral careers of ‘ successful ’ and ‘ unsuccessful ’ immigrant and the spatial progress from back region to front regions which is bound up with these careers . |
| 10 | The intellectuals of the Enlightenment showed , in general , remarkably little interest in the structure of government provided it was pursuing what they saw as the correct policies , those directed towards greater tolerance and efficiency and the happiness and welfare of mankind as a whole . |
| 11 | Puritan polemicists frequently scoffed at what they saw as the uninformed nature of this mainstream spirituality . |
| 12 | Social liberals , like Booth and Rowntree , and Fabians , like Sydney and Beatrice Webb , may have differed in their views on the extent and the permanence of the provision of state welfare that they advocated , but shared an interest in what they saw as the factual demonstration of the extent of poverty which existed in what was still regarded as the major industrial and political power . |
| 13 | However , they felt frustrated by teaching in a comprehensive school rather than a selective school and by what they saw as the poor quality of the pupils . |
| 14 | In the early years of the 1970s each of these groups was involved through their professional organisations in a campaign against what they saw as the damaging consequences of the 1960s liberalism . |
| 15 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 16 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 17 | Both Christabel Pankhurst and Swiney used medical authorities and statistics instrumentally to win specific arguments , while distancing themselves from what they saw as the corrupt power of male professionals . |
| 18 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 19 | That is what they said in the 1930s . |
| 20 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 21 | Union conferences passed motions condemning what they described as the growing use of temporary workers and employers ' strategies of substituting temporary for permanent workers . |
| 22 | For example , middle class women were as convinced as working class women by the medical profession 's call for hospitalised childbirth , although just as working class women wanted what they regarded as the additional bonus of hospital rest , so middle class women also saw the availability of anaesthesia as a major reason for welcoming the trend to hospital births . |
| 23 | The 18 Kurile islands to the north of the disputed territories were Russian territory , and Soviet troops had occupied what they regarded as the southern part of the chain at the end of the Pacific War in 1945 . |
| 24 | The nurses involved in the IMS survey carried out in 1986 for the RCN gave a clear impression of what they regarded as the important features of the work situation : " good job security " , " good atmosphere " , and " doing a worthwhile job " were cited as by far the most important . |
| 25 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 26 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 27 | Yet throughout the seventeenth century no diplomats were more pertinacious than those of Russia in asserting what they claimed as the honorific rights of their master . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 29 | By 1929 the drift towards a new cinema as being picked up by the critics , who eagerly pointed out both what they liked in the new films and what they thought would be well received by audiences . |
| 30 | There was virtually no INSET , and schools felt that PNP resourcing had very little impact on what they did in the home-school area . |