Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland they become territorial on an area of estuary mud from which they filter the small invertebrates that make up their diet . |
| 2 | With the breakup of the U.S.S.R. , it is the latter part of the feat that will be difficult to duplicate , for as Christoph Vitali , Director of the Schirn Kunsthalle , mentioned in his opening speech , the State and the Ministry of Culture of the U.S.S.R. with which they signed the initial protocol for the show no longer exist , and several cities from which the art has travelled have changed names . |
| 3 | But the club 's liabilities on Dec 31 were £1,162,306 , of which they owed the Inland Revenue £126,368 . |
| 4 | Late in January news bulletins mentioned the Anzio landing in which they knew the Irish Guards were taking part and in February the dreaded news came that Joe had been wounded . |
| 5 | Breakaway orthodox delegates to the founding conference held a new conference at which they formed the Russian Party of Communists . |
| 6 | The students learned to work what were often open invitations rather than clearly defined topics or themes into coherent lesson plans for two or three lessons of which they taught the first . |
| 7 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |
| 8 | He measured the rate at which they pecked the different models , and confirmed that the red spot on the tip of the bill acts as a signal to the chick to peck , in order to beg for food . |
| 9 | Yet as Comecon 's major source of hydrocarbons the countries have felt in recent years the strain of cutbacks in Soviet oil exports as well as what they consider to be unfair trading terms caused by rising costs which they lack the economic freedom to renegotiate . |
| 10 | On Saturday afternoon the RAF Presentation Team , which normally attends one of the Area Conferences each year , gave their presentation to Conference for which they received the grateful thanks and applause of those present . |
| 11 | As though their own countryside let them down compared to that of Italy , the wealthy English had with them when travelling a Claude Glass through which they viewed the passing landscape from their carriages . |
| 12 | Mr Clarke said social services departments would ‘ use their own , voluntary or private provision , according to which they judge the best way of providing the best quality service ’ . |
| 13 | The 32 guests enjoyed roast turkey with roast potatoes and other vegetables followed by sponge pudding and custard for which they paid the going rate . |
| 14 | On the contrary , one of its chief characteristics is to sieve out the workers into grades according to the degree in which they possess the required kinds of ability and alertness . |
| 15 | When he visited The National Gallery in London , he was enchanted by the Italian Masters Massacio and Pierro de la Francesca , and the manner in which they portrayed the human figure . |
| 16 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 17 | With which they entangle the poor spirits of fools . |
| 18 | Such a move is only a matter of time , but the time-scale will vary considerably from authority to authority depending on the phasing-in of their delegation schemes and the speed at which they restructure the various service departments to meet the new role which has to be created within the strategy and time-scale set down by the legislation . |
| 19 | This supposedly reflects the different contexts in which they learn the linguistic skills — public debates versus private relationships . |
| 20 | The principal non-Communist supporters of the Unity Campaign joined in writing a book , The Betrayal of the Left , in which they repudiated the Communist attitude to the war . |
| 21 | Despite their importance , for much of the period for which they provide the chief narrative , the Decem Libri Historiarum are not strictly speaking contemporary . |
| 22 | As to the functions themselves , they are deprived of their pragmatic identity and cast in a role in which they resemble the grammatical units that they replace . |
| 23 | Massey and Catalano ( 1978 ) suggest a typology of forms of landownership distinguishing between what they call ‘ former landed property ’ ( a rather odd term because one of the major contributions of their work is the extent to which they demonstrate the continued importance of this element ) , ‘ industrial ’ landownership and ‘ financial ’ landownership . |
| 24 | And all three writers stress the way in which they see the female self as ‘ invaded ’ by patriarchal conditioning . |
| 25 | To quote Rothstein again , Realism became ‘ the doctrine which provided the intellectual frame of reference for the foreign policy establishment for something like twenty years … it did determine the categories by which they assessed the external world and the state of mind with which they approached prevailing problems ’ . |
| 26 | A further refinement is for government intelligence to use agents to form a special organisation in which they occupy the controlling positions . |
| 27 | West of the Yenisei , the fishing and hunting economy of the Mansin Khanty , Selkup and Ket peoples was largely based upon the use of dugout or plank boats , in which they navigated the numerous rivers , lakes and marshes of the Ob basin . |
| 28 | Braun , Glanzel and Schubert 1989a have devised an alternative scientometric indicator based on citations — the Relative Citation Rate ( RCR ) — by which they assess the relative contribution of scientists from a given country to the expected average citation rate ( citation impact value ) of the journals in which they publish . |
| 29 | R. A. Fisher ( 1930 ) demonstrated that female choice for particular male characteristics ( such as tail size ) can cause them to develop to a point at which they reduce the average fitness of males . |
| 30 | That it can occur nobody denies — witness the report of HM Inspectors on secondary education in England , in which they lament the narrowing effect on the curriculum of public examinations . |