Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Decisions as to the proportion in which they hold these assets , in other words the nature of their portfolio management , determine how the sector as a whole fulfils the function of allocating the community 's savings to those who wish to borrow . |
| 3 | In others , members of the public may be invited to address committees or sub-committees before decisions are reached on topics about which they hold particular views . |
| 4 | Languages vary tremendously in the type of conjunctions they prefer to use as well as the frequency with which they use such items . |
| 5 | Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles . |
| 6 | In exchange for exports of grain they received money with which they purchased manufactured goods and luxury items . |
| 7 | Most people reckon that a healthy housing market ( by which they mean rising prices ) will ensure a healthy economy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They are daytime hunters , flying with their six legs crooked in front of them to form a tiny basket in which they catch smaller insects . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them . |
| 13 | They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution . |
| 14 | Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures . |
| 15 | Some wore only frilly drawers and black camisoles so you could see their bare thighs on which they wore fancy garters and suspenders . |
| 16 | They can formulate hypotheses about reference on the basis of the contexts in which they hear new words , and , with the help of Contrast , they also start out with a strong guiding principle about relations among word senses . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In other words , just as people differ in extraversion , intelligence , and proneness to anxiety so , too , do they differ in the extent to which they show psychotic characteristics . |
| 19 | Domestic dogs are descendants of wolves , to which they show many similarities of appearance and behaviour . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Elisabeth recalled the picnic in the bay ; they had grilled plaice on top of a fire in the ashes of which they had baked potatoes . |
| 25 | AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | This in itself provides some considerable insight into what students of literature regard as " literary " , at least in terms of the kinds of structures which they expect literary texts to exhibit . |
| 28 | Health weeks , health fairs and specific campaigns such as ‘ Be better hearted ’ , ‘ Be fit ’ , ‘ Be all you can be ’ , ‘ Happy Heart ’ and ‘ Smokebusters ’ were mentioned by schools in both sectors as ways in which they promoted healthy practices . |
| 29 | The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start . |
| 30 | I suppose they put temporary beds in the diningroom … there was a room above stairs with six beds in which they put ten men . ’ |