Example sentences of "which would [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the 1970s , the penal system could plausibly legitimate itself by claiming as its raison d'être the rehabilitation of offenders , the provision of training and treatment which would cure them of their criminality , benefiting both them and society as a whole . |
| 2 | This perspective puts mathematics educators in a very comfortable position , until we recognise that it is not uncontentious and , in any case , is rarely made explicit to children , which would involve them in a detailed consideration of how mathematics has developed and the relations between abstract mathematics and reality . |
| 3 | ( e ) shareholders who paid a much higher price for their shares than their current market value may simply react emotionally to an offer which would involve them in a loss . |
| 4 | Others such as George Cadbury , who initiated Bournville Village in 1897 , and Joseph Rowntree who started New Earswick Village , York , in 1904 , experimented in creating model communities of houses built at prices which would enable them to be let at rents within the reach of working-class incomes . |
| 5 | In some other cultures , there may have been socially validated ways of defining reality and of acting which would enable them to be less socially isolated , and therefore less neurotic because less privatized . |
| 6 | He stated that the reform would challenge the insurgents to " compete under our constitutional system and free market of ideas which are guaranteed by the rule of law , " and called upon young insurgents , whose " courage " he specifically acknowledged , to " accept a peace with honour and justice " which would enable them to " rejoin the mainstream of Philippine society " . |
| 7 | The original recipients of Hilton 's text , however , as is clear from the very fact that he wrote for them in the vernacular , were not interested in comparative academic study , but in particular guidance which would enable them to fully integrate their religious faith in their lives . |
| 8 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 9 | Questions focus on such subjects as the length of the journey , the dangers travellers might face and the kind of life which would await them in Oregon . |
| 10 | They needed clothes that would not get torn in a fight , which would stay pressed and neat and which would identify them in a crowd . |
| 11 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | When A.A. Matveev went as Russian minister to The Hague in 1699 eight young Russians were attached to his mission to gain the experience which would fit them for future diplomatic careers ; and during the next decade members of several important noble families studied in Europe for this purpose with government backing . |
| 13 | ITALY , Scotland 's World Cup rivals , must make do without gifted Juventus playmaker Roberto Baggio today when they seek a victory over Malta which would lift them to the top of the qualifying Group I. |
| 14 | The Code is drafted so that it does not impose any obligations on the parties to a takeover and their directors which would place them in conflict with their legal duties . |
| 15 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
| 16 | The firm should keep the matter under regular review and be alert to the possibility of a breach in the wall ( accidental or otherwise ) or to other circumstances arising which would prevent them from continuing to act : in which events the client must be informed immediately . |
| 17 | The message which Balfour sent was that , ‘ He is also of the opinion that it will be a serious danger if the Socialist Party is allowed to assume office at the present time and he thinks every means ought to be taken to avert the Parliamentary defeat which would bring them into office in your place . |
| 18 | The police would channel traffic from Deal , Canterbury and Ramsgate by different routes which would lead them to their allotted car parks . |
| 19 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 20 | They continued through the Temple Gates into the alleyway which would lead them into Fleet Street and a new cook shop . |
| 21 | Clement wrote a pamphlet giving his reasons for the split and accusing Wilson of mismanagement , irresponsible militancy and the encouragement of foreign seamen into Britain , presumably because of his refusal to accept a rule which would debar them from membership . |
| 22 | A youth training fund would enable us to continue this scheme , not only with a view to employment , but enabling us to provide training and development of personal skills , which would benefit them in future employment or future education . |
| 23 | If a person has become disabled through no fault of their own and they 're not going to be provided with a benefit which would compensate them for being out of work , they will suffer enormously . ’ |
| 24 | Golfers , with bags of clubs over shoulders , boarded tramcars which would take them to many of the numerous golf-clubs in and around the city . |
| 25 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |
| 26 | In particular he thought that competence in computer literacy and manipulating information technology , which would help them to be ‘ lifelong learners , ’ were neglected . |
| 27 | At this time when women could not hold property after they married , typically daughters were left trust funds which would provide them with an income , while sons received land , property and liquid assets ( Davidoff and Hall , 1987 , pp. 205–7 ) . |
| 28 | When he died , he divided his liquid assets and his land between his sons , having first provided for each of his daughters through setting up trust funds which would provide them with a good income . |
| 29 | As part of the cross-party compromise the government agreed to negotiate agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic which would provide them with financial help to deal with the migrants . |
| 30 | Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power . |