Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 2 | The directors of these films , tourists in working-class cultures for which they felt little sympathy , saw only what they wanted to see . |
| 3 | The companies of players did not perceive their plays as fixed texts , literary works which they felt some obligation to present accurately . |
| 4 | German software products company SAP AG , Walldorf , and Microsoft Corp have scheduled a press conference in Munich today , at which they are expected to announce ‘ something beyond ’ the agreement to put SAP 's R/2 and R/3 suites up under Windows NT , which they announced this week . |
| 5 | This does indeed seem at first sight to demonstrate that some of people 's most vivid , detailed and enduring memories are precisely the memories they have about situations in which they experienced high levels of emotional arousal . |
| 6 | In exchange for exports of grain they received money with which they purchased manufactured goods and luxury items . |
| 7 | It is worth noting that such important modern choreographers as Kurt Jooss and Martha Graham and the leader of the Dance Theatre of Harlem , George Mitchell , insisted that their dancershave knowledge of some school of classical technique , to which they added other exercises to develop the flexibility of their dancers ' bodies , athletic qualities and an ability to explore more thoroughly the space around them in all its dimensions . |
| 8 | Huddled behind a clump of trees , several villagers pointed to an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck in the valley far below which they said Serbian forces had used to pummel their homes . |
| 9 | She wanted to find out what it was like , Antoinette in the cellar , Madeleine in the big marital bed , their mysterious life in the arms of men , the embrace which the daughter was banned from and which they told endless lies about . |
| 10 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 11 | They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution . |
| 12 | Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures . |
| 13 | Some wore only frilly drawers and black camisoles so you could see their bare thighs on which they wore fancy garters and suspenders . |
| 14 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |
| 15 | David Radcliffe , marketing director for Hogg Robinson 's 206 shops , for which they produced this week the latest edition of a four-volume in-house resort hotel guide to 1750 establishments , points out that his chain is already ‘ segmented on tailor-made , seat-only and bed-only markets ’ . |
| 16 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 17 | Using samplers , slowed-down tapes , echo-box , fuzz , wah wah , bullhorns , saws , car doors ( from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds ) , and tapes of cattle lowing , they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum , new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound . |
| 18 | In two days of talks in Belgrade on May 30-31 , during which they met federal leaders and all the presidents of the republics , Jacques Delors , President of the EC Commission , and Jacques Santer , the Luxembourg Prime Minister and current chair of the EC Council of Ministers , had confirmed that the EC was ready to help a democratized and reformed Yugoslavia , with unchanged internal and external borders . |
| 19 | The four categories of need chosen by the Authority varied considerably in the extent to which they met these conditions , at both LEA and school level . |
| 20 | It also enabled moderate Republicans to avoid an open break with Bush on the issue , and saved the Democrats from a potentially damaging veto battle which they seemed one vote short of winning and which would again have highlighted for white voters the identification of Democrats with minority issues . |
| 21 | The children were divided into two groups for the test phase in which they received successive discrimination training , learning to press one button in response to one of the pre-trained cues and a second button in response to another . |
| 22 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 23 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
| 24 | The inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia had to contend with variations of climate , scorching winds , torrential rains , and devastating floods over which they had little control . |
| 25 | From this change , it is said , followed another change , from prescribing as the cure more self-help and hard work among the poor , to recognition of the need for government intervention to support the poor in an economic situation over which they had little control ; from ‘ individualism ’ to ‘ collectivism ’ as it is often put . |
| 26 | Many teachers feel aggrieved at having ‘ taken the rap ’ for the introduction and implementation of theories and methods over which they had little control . |
| 27 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
| 28 | While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications . |
| 29 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 30 | The achievement of Edward IV and Henry VII lay less in the size of their income than in their creation of a landed estate which gave them a substantial revenue over which they had complete control . |