Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [Wh det] they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 2 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 3 | Opening his own door , he thought how great , how truly fantastic it was that there should be something into which they need not yet rush . |
| 4 | He envisaged a shift , in line with modern educational thinking , away from a system in which pupils are assessed in relation to each other ( a norm-referenced system ) to one in which they would be assessed in relation to certain pre-specified criteria ( a criterion-referenced system ) . |
| 5 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 6 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 7 | It is something on which they can rely and something that their colleagues in other countries will find difficult to deny . |
| 8 | It 's about individual people realising they can do something beyond what they may normally expect to achieve . ’ |
| 9 | Is it one at which they will simply be given information by the teacher in role ? |
| 10 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 11 | If by our standards their lot was a hard one , what they suffered inside was nothing to what they would have had to endure outside from a still brutalised populace . |
| 12 | These developed from the legal concept of ultra vires ( beyond the strength ) which , since the mid nineteenth century , had prohibited local councils from doing anything for which they could not show precise legal authority . |