Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 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 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 4 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Languages vary tremendously in the type of conjunctions they prefer to use as well as the frequency with which they use such items . |
| 7 | What are the circumstances in which they use this word and what are their attitudes to a person thus described ? |
| 8 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 9 | Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles . |
| 10 | And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication . |
| 11 | rational behaviour on the part of investors in which they prefer more wealth to less and are indifferent to whether an increment to their wealth takes the form of an unrealized capital gain or a cash dividend payment . |
| 12 | Most people reckon that a healthy housing market ( by which they mean rising prices ) will ensure a healthy economy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them . |
| 15 | Insects who feed off , pollinate or whose lives are otherwise associated with these particular plants have a corresponding detection system in the structure of their antennae , through which they perceive specific patterning in the infrared , just as we perceive what we call ‘ visible ’ light , through our eyes . |
| 16 | Yet they equally commonly affirm the observation that by taking on additional ‘ jobs ’ from which they derive real enjoyment and satisfaction , their energy and resources seem , paradoxically , to be replenished rather than further drained . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I think the way in which they organize that side of things is quite brilliant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Domestic dogs are descendants of wolves , to which they show many similarities of appearance and behaviour . |
| 21 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 22 | The inductivist wishes to make a fairly sharp distinction between direct observation , which he hopes will form a secure foundation for scientific knowledge , and theories , which are to be justified by the extent to which they receive inductive support from the secure observational foundation . |
| 23 | Cultures vary in the degree to which they take sexual deviance as a serious sin or crime , but all control sexuality in some way . |
| 24 | AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Accustom the eye to perceive the relation of one line to another by the angles by which they intersect each other . |
| 27 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 28 | Or you could ask people to give their opinions of a subject on which they have strong views . |
| 29 | They are not aware of all such emissions , however , from all plants and other creatures — just those with which they have close ties . |
| 30 | The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views . |