Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Watchers were then encouraged to get in touch with her via her publishers , after which they received a personalised mailshot . |
| 3 | The weavers valued them more highly , however , and responded with a fourteen-week strike during which they inserted a notice in the Ipswich Journal . |
| 4 | No , well the key point is the key point is that they they have to have a period during which they have a track record of running those separate businesses , so that bidders will know the basis on which their bidding , now if if the franchising director , it 's entirely his decision , decides that er he 's not getting competitive enough bids or good enough bids , then yes British Rail would carry on , and this was clear right from the outset , would carry on running that particular |
| 5 | ‘ The public has also played its part in developing the proposals , particularly by way of a comprehensive consultation exercise during which they gave a high level of support for the principles . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 8 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 9 | Checks are made at the pubs to see that the beer is actually drunk , as serious athletes have been known to let it spill down their vests to cool them off , for which they incur a two minute penalty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Also linen is a more valuable product for which they charged a higher sale price . |
| 14 | It also helps congregations understand why they are finding it so difficult to reach ‘ resistant areas ’ for which they feel a responsibility . |
| 15 | Summit Brass knock out the fanfare dramatically enough , but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies excel themselves in a completely idiomatic and superbly recorded performance of Copland 's Ballet Suite — for which they won a Grammy award on its original release . |
| 16 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 17 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Their views on questions of human aggression and violence therefore assume major importance in the moral community of which they form a part . |
| 20 | But language and interpretation assume a structure of values of which they form a part . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Some of them urged that the imperfections of the creation cohere with those of the Hebrew scriptures , of which they held a low opinion . |
| 27 | What it does , in effect , is to enable such companies to conceal from outsiders detailed information regarding profitability and turnover , something of which they have a ( much exaggerated ) fear that it will be used by their competitors to the company ‘ s disadvantage . |
| 28 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 29 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 30 | Palestinian leaders in the occupied territories called for an escalation of the intifada , in response to the formation of what they called a " terrorist " government . |