Example sentences of "what they [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This manoeuvre caused dissension within feminist ranks , however , and in 1889 a small group of women , including Mrs Pankhurst and Josephine Butler , formed the Women 's Franchise League , in reaction to what they perceived as a preoccupation with the cause of spinsters and widows . |
| 2 | Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor . |
| 3 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 4 | Suppliers are angry about what they discern as a consistent pattern of Brandmakers refusing to pay bills because , the company says , goods delivered have fallen below the required standard . |
| 5 | Earlier this month the marine geologists at the survey 's western headquarters in Menlo Park , California , revealed what they discovered during a nine-month cruise last year and what they want to reexamine this year . |
| 6 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 7 | It 's what they mean by a mini- series . |
| 8 | But then again there have n't really been any bands that have said what they felt in a long time . ’ |
| 9 | When asked what they like in a woman , they say they 're less interested in charm than most . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday . |
| 11 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 12 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
| 14 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 15 | Increased immigration militated against the absorption of new arrivals in existing Shetlander networks ; while at the same time it was accompanied by the creation of new networks composed of incomers -incomers found shared interests in what they saw as a frontier zone . |
| 16 | The new emphasis was not universally approved of , purists objecting to what they saw as a tendency for accountants to look a project over and approve or disapprove of it from the beginning . |
| 17 | What they saw as a problem , he saw as a challenge . |
| 18 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 19 | They had wanted an updating of canon law , a reassertion of control over Church organizations , the declaration of Mary 's Assumption ( perhaps as a sop to the pope ) , and a firm condemnation of nascent ecumenism and what they saw as a new outbreak of modernism . |
| 20 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 21 | There were demonstrations in Moldavia ( renamed Moldova ) calling for greater control over local affairs , and in particular for official status for the Moldavian language ; there were counter-demonstrations by the republic 's non-Moldavian population , more than a third of the total , against what they saw as a form of reverse discrimination ( Russian , in the event , was retained as a means of inter-nationality communication ) . |
| 22 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
| 23 | Belgium , France , West Germany , the Netherlands and Luxembourg reached a draft agreement in March 1989 providing for the abolition of their respective border controls by the beginning of January 1990 , in what they saw as a model for the complete abolition of customs posts throughout the EC after 1992 . |
| 24 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 25 | The LDP forced it through its committee stages in the House of Representatives — the Lower House of the Diet — on Nov. 27 , thereby causing a brawl to erupt amongst legislators angry over what they saw as a flouting of established procedure . |
| 26 | Atlanticists attacked what they saw as a false parallelism in de Gaulle 's treatment of the two superpowers . |
| 27 | Therefore when there is trouble afoot , they will move their young to what they regard as a more secure home . |
| 28 | The agency is in a belligerent mood , fighting off what they regard as a male backlash . |
| 29 | In a way , black sportsmen in Britain are responding to what they perceive as a challenge . |
| 30 | SENIOR figures in the Presbyterian Church are expressing concern at what they perceive as a ‘ media bias ’ against them when covering matters of public interest . |