Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As credit is now so central to people 's lives — financing as it does something approaching half of what they buy , other than day-to-day necessities — and as choice of credit arrangements is increasingly diverse and complex , people by the time they leave school should be equipped to deal sensibly with it . |
| 2 | Do n't listen to half of what they say . |
| 3 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 4 | He brightened as he recalled some of what they had been told . |
| 5 | He believes that an increasing number of vehicle and equipment makers who currently build their own engines will be forced to buy at least some of what they need from independents like Perkins . |
| 6 | Some of what they found has been reclaimed by its owners but there 's plenty left . |
| 7 | Unless mechanical recording is used , sociologists necessarily invent at least some of what they report . |
| 8 | Drexel 's 11,000 ex-employees may not be drawn from the rainbow coalition , but lots of consumers and workers in America have reason to like some of what they did very much . |
| 9 | States do this in what they perceive to be the general community interest and , perhaps , to encourage the State most directly affected to accept the treaty regime . |
| 10 | Long experience has , however , shown to me the danger of the good being lost through the devotion of some to what they think to be the best . |
| 11 | As with writing , structures of practice construct meanings , and they do this by what they leave out , as well as what they include . |
| 12 | But the security and long-term attractions of many of the investor/developers , as opposed to the property traders which hold on to little of what they develop , makes many of the downgradings a nonsense . |
| 13 | Yet the vast majority of children will use little of what they learn . |
| 14 | They have achieved much of what they sought concerning changes in documents which affect their everyday lives , so as to accommodate their new life-style . |
| 15 | Unfortunately they were shipwrecked and lost much of what they had been given . |
| 16 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 17 | You will probably find that much of what they offer is excellent , but that something is missing ; certain aspects of movement are neglected — it is thought necessary to know about them or try to communicate them through teaching . |
| 18 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 19 | He thinks that it is more important to convince doctors that ‘ teaching ’ is a broad term and covers much of what they do every day and to ensure that they receive adequate training and support to carry it out well . |
| 20 | By twentieth-century standards the Thatcher governments have been radical and successful — not only in winning elections but in achieving so much of what they intended . |
| 21 | How much of what they say is fact and how much is opinion ? |
| 22 | People have expected to pay later for much of what they have bought , seeing this as ‘ bills ’ rather than as debts . |
| 23 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |
| 24 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 25 | Fellow coach Robert Millington reckoned : ‘ Physiologically , they [ blacks ] are much better equipped than whites ; not so much with what they 've got to start with , but what they can achieve in a short space of time . |
| 26 | The problem with their evolutionary sequence does not lie so much with what they say about technology as what they saw this technology as implying . |
| 27 | Together they tour the libraries of the world , while their photo archive contains 50,000 negatives , many of which they took themselves . |
| 28 | And if they were in a hurry they would maybe paint them all with what they called paint oil which was the boiled linseed oil . |
| 29 | You did not have any influence at all over what they said . |
| 30 | One reason , evident in Europe and also important in the United States , is that for some of the underclass life in the cities , although insecure , ill-rewarded and otherwise primitive , still remains , if tenuously , better than that from which they escaped . |