Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to maintain living standards , marginal land was brought into cultivation causing disruption of the traditional interplay between cultivators and nomadic herders ; the former provided millet and sorghum as staple crops which they exchanged for animal products and the benefits of having their lands fertilised by animal herds . |
| 2 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 3 | Teachers will find that the educational goals which they set for their visually handicapped pupils are essentially the same as for the fully sighted children in their classes and that these goals are attainable . |
| 4 | They thus need only provide care to quality standards which they set for themselves when first agreeing a contract and they can avoid being drawn into the ‘ high volume/doubtful quality ’ trap . |
| 5 | Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments . |
| 6 | Data from this study also show that some people do retain relationships which they use for confiding and support , especially with their mothers , and this is regarded as appropriate , especially for women to get support with concerns that essentially are ‘ women 's business , . |
| 7 | It is not impossible that nationalism will decline with the decline of the nation-state , without which being English or Irish or Jewish , or a combination of all these , is only one way in which people describe their identity among the many others which they use for this purpose , as occasion demands . |
| 8 | Both teachers keep on their desks , beside the National Curriculum ring binders , the registers and all the other tedious impedimenta of a teacher 's working life , a pile of books of poems , which they use for short sections of time throughout the day . |
| 9 | The price at which they bid for these bills determines the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 10 | The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 11 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 12 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 13 | The remedies which they prescribe for Britain involve the separation of social insurance for health , pensions and employment from social assistance to those in unpredictable need . |
| 14 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 15 | This project aims to explore what teachers implementing the programmes assume about the way children learn , how they interpret the differences among their pupils ( in the new atmosphere which emphasises ‘ attainment targets ’ ) and the ways in which they cater for those differences . |
| 16 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It would be impossible to say too much in praise of consultant Ernest Sinar and his colleagues and staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital for the way in which they cared for Jo and the family during the time she was there . ’ |
| 19 | The twins ' outfits for the panto , two of which they modelled for a preview , have cost £13,500 . |
| 20 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 21 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 22 | Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication . |
| 23 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 24 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 25 | Coventry have a book which they keep for fire purposes of , signing themselves in and out . |
| 26 | I think it started as an agricultural building , which they got for nothing . |
| 27 | When you approach pluggers or press officers , bear in mind that this is how they make their money , and the amount of enthusiasm which they show for your product may not be a true indication of the coverage which they can secure . |
| 28 | A total of 898 members of the Irish National Flying Club had 3,290 young birds in Penzance for the event in which they competed for £20,600 and a video sponsored by Salisbury Laboratories . |
| 29 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 30 | Working within a paradigm , the fundamentals of which they take for granted , they are able to perform the exacting experimental and theoretical work necessary to improve the match between the paradigm and nature to an ever-greater degree . |