Example sentences of "which they [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What are the circumstances in which they use this word and what are their attitudes to a person thus described ? |
| 9 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 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 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | I think the way in which they organize that side of things is quite brilliant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Many teachers feel aggrieved at having ‘ taken the rap ’ for the introduction and implementation of theories and methods over which they had little control . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 30 | It all seems to have lacked sparkle ; Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk , ’ while Boswell says they were afraid to , and as a consequence he and Johnson round themselves ‘ barren ’ — having already spent a morning in which they had scant conversation with anyone . |