Example sentences of "[pron] they [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk couched in women 's language lacks authority , thus unfitting those who use the language for any position in which they might exercise authority . |
| 2 | Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience . |
| 3 | The researcher conducting this case ( Wobbe-Ohlenburg 1982 ) comments that much of the publicity about using robots in factories emphasises the way in which they can make life more pleasant for humans by taking over the dirty , dangerous , or monotonously repetitive jobs . |
| 4 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 5 | I think that the mass of the people , as far as I can see , want the state where they can er well economic climate in which they can make money for themselves and get on top . |
| 6 | Their most important asset is the way in which they can deflect light . |
| 7 | This quality of inclusion signifies the sense of the collective that women have , and from which they can draw strength in their lives . |
| 8 | Hence it remains necessary to explain in further detail the present legal provisions and to highlight some of the problems to which they can give rise . |
| 9 | and my Lord in relation the provisions of the Lloyd 's Act and the er byelaws that are linked into solvency and the maintenance of er , er adequate fund and the payment of policy holders , in my submission constitute the implementation of that directive and those obligations er in , er relation to the society and that is perfectly compatible with community law er it is er the states er have variety of ways in which they can give effect er to community obligations . |
| 10 | They are prevented from entering what appears to them the more appealing world of work , a world in which they can earn independence and the goods that money can buy . |
| 11 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 12 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 13 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 14 | What we are talking about today is the need to ensure that bad cases do not elude tough penalties , because the present law puts burdens on the police and prosecution which they can have difficulty in discharging . |
| 15 | Grade Two studying next to a ditch in which they can take cover if the planes should strike today . |
| 16 | As well as having gills , Lungfish have primitive lungs with which they can obtain oxygen from the air . |
| 17 | And when people like Michael Bilington from the Guardian comes here what they are interested in are the Irish shows , not the visiting productions which they can see anytime . |
| 18 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 19 | For those not wishing to specialise in statistics , some courses may be taken as options with Mathematics honours or in an ordinary degree ; such possibilities are valuable to those who intend to teach in schools or to take other employment in which they will apply mathematics . |
| 20 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 21 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |
| 22 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |
| 23 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 24 | There is ample evidence that in the Victorian and Edwardian ages working-class women were knowledgeable about techniques by which they could control family size . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 26 | In more realistic conditions , however , managers are faced with a complex series of questions in the resolution of which they must exercise choice , for example , about plant location , production methods , employment levels , output , advertising , investment , research and development , and so on . |
| 27 | Pediculus humanus corporis , the body louse , and Pediculus humanus capitis , the head louse , share with Phthirus pubis three pairs of legs , a predilection for man or the higher apes , and a dependence on fresh blood , to which they must have access at least twice a day . |
| 28 | Most of the agencies that we shall be describing in the following sections would claim to offer information , advice and assistance but some are dubious as to the extent to which they should take action on behalf of a client and some will refer a matter on to specialists when they reach the limits of their competence . |
| 29 | The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness . |
| 30 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |