Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Females of several parasitic species of wasp sting weevil larvae , beside which they lay a single egg . |
| 2 | In their third year , students take a special topic on which they prepare a substantial piece of work . |
| 3 | In the third year , students choose a special subject which they study in depth and on which they prepare a substantial dissertation . |
| 4 | The trust is based at the restored railway station at Coalbrookdale , and on the site they have constructed a traditional cruck-framed barn , in which they hold a series of leisure courses on traditional crafts . |
| 5 | When they 're still children a mother or a whore gives them a piece of broken mirror in which they trap a ray of the sun and reflect it into one of the Palace windows . |
| 6 | What does the right hon. and learned Gentleman suggest that those apprentices should do with the training to which they committed a lot of their time ? |
| 7 | The debate is now largely ‘ old hat ’ in the sociology of education and there is a general consensus that schools do indeed impart values , but these are usually modified or developed versions of already existing dominant values of the society of which they form a part , including a number of parental values . |
| 8 | Their views on questions of human aggression and violence therefore assume major importance in the moral community of which they form a part . |
| 9 | But language and interpretation assume a structure of values of which they form a part . |
| 10 | It would certainly include : the physical lay-out of the houses we live in and of the settlements of which they form a part ; the general pattern of conventional procedures by which foodstuffs and other necessities of life are produced and distributed and finally consumed ; the way children are brought up ; the way tasks are allocated to different members of the household ; the ideas we have about the nature of reality and of the cosmos , our sense of what is the proper way to behave towards kin and neighbours and persons in authority ; the kinds of clothes and the styles of language which are appropriate to different occasions , etc . |
| 11 | Suppose the pieces of the jigsaw start off in a box in the ordered arrangement in which they form a picture . |
| 12 | Although non-restrictive adjectives are therefore not necessary to the entity-identification achieved by the phrase of which they form a part , there is no particular mystery about their appearance . |
| 13 | Other crustal fragments , while appearing to be of more local origin , have , none the less , experienced significant horizontal displacement and rotation with respect to the plate of which they form a part . |
| 14 | President Ayaz Mutalibov of the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan , who visited Iran on Aug. 16-18 , held talks with President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani on Aug. 18 after which they signed a memorandum of understanding to improve bilateral relations . |
| 15 | The weavers valued them more highly , however , and responded with a fourteen-week strike during which they inserted a notice in the Ipswich Journal . |
| 16 | With the Maccabees we feel on the threshold of a new epoch , the end of tolerance and the beginning of persecution , and naturally we want to know both what brought about this change and how the protagonists saw the events in which they played a part . |
| 17 | They do not eat this material but chew it up to form a compost on which they cultivate a fungus . |
| 18 | This charting of the circulating relations between aesthetic and other forms of production works best in those historical periods , such as the Renaissance , where there was no modern concept of Literature , thus allowing literary texts to be mapped against the political and other discourses of which they formed a part . |
| 19 | Two of these scholars , Edward Foxe and Thomas Cranmer , who were both members of Anne Boleyn 's faction at court , were responsible for drawing up a document called the Collectanea satis copiosa , in which they advanced a claim of imperial sovereignty for the English monarchy . |
| 20 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 21 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 22 | Over-exploitation of rattan does not indicate a high ‘ conservation of resources ’ sense , nor does their attitude to animals , of which they keep a wide range of pets from rats to tigers . |
| 23 | Some people literally develop another life in which they display a side of themselves that would shock their pupils as much as their colleagues if they were to find out . |
| 24 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 25 | V2 RNA was used as the starting point for an interesting experiment by Leslie Orgel and his colleagues in California , in which they imposed a ‘ difficult ’ environment . |
| 26 | First , in many cases the previous foreign owners of those companies which passed into local ownership , either private or state , were invited to continue as managers for which they received a management fee . |
| 27 | Watchers were then encouraged to get in touch with her via her publishers , after which they received a personalised mailshot . |
| 28 | Mrs Whitehouse wrote on behalf of the NVALA to the then Home Secretary , Roy Jenkins , asking if he would declare Thorsen an ‘ undesirable alien ’ , to which they received a negative reply . |
| 29 | The subscription was 5/- a year if paid in one sum or 1/6 a quarter but all persons under 20 years of age one shilling quarterly , for which they received a signed ticket of admission and also had the privilege of introducing a lady to the free lectures , the members themselves were admitted ( at half price ) to lectures where a charge was made . |
| 30 | Club members can provide help with Front of House , Bar and Foyer duties in return for which they receive a free ticket to the show . |