Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The explanations which they offer for continuing peasant unrest , however , run counter to important aspects of the Soviet explanation . |
| 6 | Not all places are equal , and their siting must be considered in relation to other places to which they look for social , economic , religious or administrative relationships . |
| 7 | The shareholders could also be passive because the manager is doing precisely what they require for high returns on that money . |
| 8 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 9 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |