Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wear sarongs of every possible hue , and atop their heads are colourful swirls of fabric which they use to support huge baskets of exotic produce . |
| 2 | The toothed whales have a set of teeth which they use to grasp large and quick-moving prey , mainly squid or fish . |
| 3 | Also the farmers plant crops of grass ( ley grass ) which they use to provide rich grazing for the livestock in summer and hay and silage for the winter . |
| 4 | They also descend into the deeper caverns to search for the wild and exotic funguses which they use to make powerful magic potions . |
| 5 | It is as if by being able to make moral judgements people recognise , not simply an additional technical possibility , but something to which they wish to give ultimate significance . |
| 6 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |
| 7 | That is what happened , and we now realise that we must take away from such authorities that most unjust tool with which they managed to acquire electoral support that they did not deserve and have unscrupulously used . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrats were supporting a Government which they claim to want defeated . |
| 9 | The way in which they try to break those ties may often be brutal and very painful for the mother , but the instinct is right . |
| 10 | When we opened the door , they looked furtively around them and hurried inside with grimy bundles of sacking and newspaper from which they proceeded to unpack superb Chinese porcelain . |
| 11 | On the other hand , they differ in their area of application and to some extent in the way in which they seek to fulfil these two basic functions . |
| 12 | President Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan ( the ruler of Abu Dhabi ) visited Oman on May 1-4 for talks with Oman 's ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said , during which they agreed to raise diplomatic representation between the two countries to ambassadorial level . |
| 13 | The syndicate decides to hold a second Hopkin exhibition at which they hope to gain enough money to pay Grisby Flatpattern to disappear . |
| 14 | More mundanely , most likely , prepare to have the family for which they had to wait many wearing years . |
| 15 | Second , although Ellis and Muller found no difference between their distinctiveness and observation training conditions , there was evidence for a superiority of the distinctiveness group over one given equivalence training in which they had to apply one label to half of the shapes and another label to the rest . |
| 16 | It was not known whether they would be the most advanced protagonists of environmental scanning , but for various reasons it was expected that they would have views about scanning and about the extent to which they wished to undertake formal environmental analysis . |
| 17 | Corporate members , which they want to admit next year alongside names trading with unlimited liability , will have to bid for a place — the price being a levy to Lloyd 's central fund . |
| 18 | Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Byelarus , the three former Soviet republics in addition to Russia with nuclear weapons on their territories , signed a protocol to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on May 23 in which they pledged to eliminate nuclear weapons by the end of the decade . |
| 19 | In Australia , for example , there is no doubt that the Aboriginal people have done much to encourage grassland these past 40 000 years , by their use of fires , which they light to encourage new growth and attract animals for hunting . |
| 20 | contribution will have been abolished , those on income support will still receive that extra money , which they started to receive two years ago ? |
| 21 | Wounded FMLN guerrillas in San Salvador board a plane , believed to be bound for Chile , after they were evacuated from the Mexican Embassy , which they occupied to demand safe passage |
| 22 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 23 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 24 | But in the end their greatest impact was the way in which they helped to change most people 's way of lite and in so doing changed much of the landscape . |
| 25 | ( viii ) Pupils should extend and refine their competence in drafting , redrafting , rereading and revising , and proof-reading and should learn to judge the extent to which they need to use any or all of these processes in specific pieces of work . |
| 26 | What they want to do next is to use deuterium and tritium together in the machine , since the dt reaction releases more energy per fusion than does the dd , and so Princeton hope that the faster energy release might enable them to cross the breakeven threshold . |
| 27 | We beat them , so now they can concentrate on the league and not worry about the cup and risk more injuries , because what they want to do most of all is get back in division one and as a soon as they do that they 'll drop back down again , because they 're not that good really . |
| 28 | Earlier this month the marine geologists at the survey 's western headquarters in Menlo Park , California , revealed what they discovered during a nine-month cruise last year and what they want to reexamine this year . |
| 29 | That pair had you cornered , and heaven alone knew what they intended to do next if I had n't risked both life and limb by stepping in to help you . |
| 30 | First , the fact that pluralists are only interested in explaining what they choose to call public policy-making means that they confine their attention to those issues that involve government and the state in a very direct way . |