Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be a notice board which has them all written down , so that residents and staff can see at a glance what 's on today . |
| 2 | Not only is the system which appoints them both ludicrous and antiquated , but it is difficult to quantify quite what the Lords achieves . |
| 3 | The proposed areas are included among 40 National Scenic Areas , which affords them some protection , but the Commission feels that they urgently need much better management and investment if their natural beauty , range of species of wildlife and cultural values are to be preserved . |
| 4 | The darkness of which Hilton speaks , and the darkness of the penitential understanding in the Passion meditations , may belong to different stages of development in the knowledge of God , but they are part of a continuous pattern of experience of death and resurrection which underlies them all . |
| 5 | The relationship is still going strong despite a heavy workload which takes them both all over the world . |
| 6 | War-time mobilisation acts as a single institution which grades them all according to its distinct purposes , thus serving as an external check upon their nature quite separate from the whims of the observer and the contingencies of their previous situation in life . |
| 7 | And over all these virtues put on love , which binds them all together in perfect unity . |
| 8 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |
| 9 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 10 | It 's her assiduity which enables them all to be so modest about their success — and they all are pretty successful , one way and another . |
| 11 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 12 | In fact , Henry can whistle one tune which makes them all want to follow him . |
| 13 | The face-to-face interaction feature of interviews which makes them such a potent source of interviewer bias also makes them an effective device for communicating concern , interest and priorities to interviewees . |
| 14 | What awaits them all in the future ? |
| 15 | The fact that coins are monetary objects issued by various authorities is what makes them such a valuable source of information for the historian . |
| 16 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |