Example sentences of "[Wh det] they have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the temporary employment businesses make reference to a share of their workers subsequently being offered permanent jobs by the organisations with which they have been placed ( FPS , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Not only is the official not complaining of the handicaps with which they have been saddled by Howard 's fellow-countrymen — he 's apologizing that they have n't overcome them ! |
| 3 | They have had unfortunate childhoods in which they have been neglected and brutalised . |
| 4 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on the Bill , which provides for tougher action against prisoners who wish to carry out their war against society after conviction and sentence from within — or worse , outside — the prison to which they have been sentenced . |
| 5 | Asian hoteliers and restaurateurs have been reluctant to disclose the extent to which they have been affected by the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) . |
| 6 | Yet if the only sense in which two statements of attainment from different attainment targets are equivalent is the number of the level to which they have been assigned , then the production of a combined score is a calculation devoid of meaning . |
| 7 | Overseas too many missionary-planted churches are over-influenced by their imported histories , which reflect controversies and emphases which may be irrelevant to their environment into which they have been transplanted . |
| 8 | The whole approach is one of managing the delivery of local services : ‘ The ability of elected members to influence services will be limited because they will be tied to contracts … whatever the platform on which they have been elected ’ ( Walsh 1989:50 ) . |
| 9 | Nevertheless there has been a slow but perceptible change in the basis of such control , which is no longer in the hands of particular landowning families and individuals as such , but part of the duties of the office to which they have been elected . |
| 10 | The most significant and the most controversial documents will , however , usually be the subject of full inquiry by the Sub-Committee to which they have been sifted . |
| 11 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 12 | If counsellees are able to reach a better understanding of their own self-image , they can often overcome the social role into which they have been fixed , and develop newer , healthier ones . |
| 13 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 14 | The House of Lords decision in Re an inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 illustrates clearly how the authorities are determined to take their new powers seriously and how the courts are prepared to interpret the provisions in the spirit in which they have been granted . |
| 15 | Editor 's comment : The Australian government are quite entitled to apply sanctions against South Africa if they so wish but the correct time to apply them is not after competitors have arrived for a World Championships in Australia to which they have been invited . |
| 16 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 17 | The employees ' contracts should clearly state the length of the assignment for which they have been engaged together with details of procedures for termination of employment — both on behalf of the employer and the employee . |
| 18 | Marriage may feel yet one more place into which they have been pushed , one more area in which they have not been allowed to exercise their own choice . |
| 19 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the auditors can only report on the information which they have been given by the Vendor and if that information is inaccurate ( causing the Accounts to be wrong ) the auditors will not be at fault . |
| 21 | Lightning , earthquakes , cloudbursts and tornadoes may be acts of God but there seems to be no English decision in which they have been involved . |
| 22 | 7.6 Research on violence to staff in Social Work Departments shows that those who have been attacked can mistakenly feel that they have failed professionally and so may not report an incident in which they have been involved . |
| 23 | Choreographers must have been dancers themselves if they are to understand and feel the natural abilities of the body and to allow fur the influence of the techniques in which they have been trained . |
| 24 | They then return quickly to the jobs for which they have been trained . |
| 25 | Often , too often perhaps , the impression is conveyed that data are separate from the purposes for which they have been gathered , that data can exist , as it were , on their own . |
| 26 | The result is a crisis of confidence , often resolved by teachers returning to the assurance of tradition which represents , after all , the more influential authority of the culture in which they have been nurtured . |
| 27 | I believe that the very speed at which they have been absorbed into the school system indicates an uncritical acceptance of the package because it is new and modern and fashionable and that there has been little serious examination of which aspects are relevant and which are not . |
| 28 | The scale of many more recent industrial disputes , together with the manner in which they have been regarded by workers , employers and the state , have made explanations based on pluralism seem less and less plausible . |
| 29 | But we know children can be at risk from even well-qualified professionals appointed to care for them ( not least in children 's homes to which they have been sent for their own welfare and safety ) , or from parents not burdened by a ‘ learning difficulty ’ label ( witness the recent ‘ home alone ’ cases here and in the United States ) . |
| 30 | Many press releases are poorly written , irrelevant to the newspaper or journal to which they have been sent , often are mailed to the wrong person on a publication , and are incredibly boring . |