Example sentences of "which they [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Which they class as a debt free authority .
2 When life brings them into touch again twenty years later , and they are hopelessly in love , a climactic scene takes place in an inferior tea-shop which they visit during a furtive day together in London .
3 Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth .
4 For the past decade , the two have been exploring the boundaries of costume exhibitions at New York 's Fashion Institute of Technology , from which they come with a dazzling reputation .
5 It is very difficult , particularly for those who work in a stuffy , overcrowded office , to which they commute on a stuffy overcrowded train , successfully to avoid catching cold or other viruses .
6 Store detectives work about seven hours a day , including breaks , and tend to earn from £8,000-£10,000 per year To avoid getting too well known , they have a patch of around 10 shops which they patrol on a rota basis .
7 It follows that a firm will need to ensure that any guarantees which they require from a client or other person in respect of the performance of their obligations towards the firm do indeed contain appropriate provisions to displace the statutory rule , and bankers to a firm seeking security for its overdraft will invariably attach similar conditions to the liability of any person put forward by the firm as guarantor .
8 In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff .
9 The body felt , to the probe of a stick which they thrust into a chinke , like boyld Brawne .
10 This mechanism is social stratification , which they see as a system which attaches unequal rewards and privileges to the different positions in society .
11 Police are appealing for witnesses to the attack which they describe as a very nasty injury inflicted after an earlier verbal confrontation .
12 Faeces are used by young children as a ‘ gift ’ , and sometimes their stools are wrapped up in parcels which they give to a significant person .
13 Assessment schemes vary in the extent to which they rely on a structured syllabus and defined test modes .
14 In general terms the system is bureaucratic and inflexible , with prices not conveying the kind of information which they do in a market economy and with incentives being blunted .
15 I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic .
16 Instead , the Greeks embarked on an argument about the name of the place in the course of which they cosied up to Serbia ( which is the chief danger to the peaceful , democratic Balkans they want ) and bullied Macedonia ( which they need as a buffer between themselves and Serbia ) .
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