Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pain was experienced by 67 per cent of all patients , most of whom experienced more at night , suggesting that a number of apparently ‘ venous ’ ulcers may have a concurrent ischaemic component . |
| 2 | Abolitionists began to create their own pantheon of heroes , veneration of whom contributed both to longitudinal solidarity over time and horizontal solidarity between groups . |
| 3 | It was a top class turn-out of local business leaders , none of whom seemed particularly keen on the idea of a minimum wage . |
| 4 | The classic French dishes were cooked to perfection by the Arab cook and served gracefully by Arab boys in white uniforms , the eldest of whom seemed about fifteen years old . |
| 5 | So for the potential crime of the bad men , all of whom seemed perfectly pleasant , sentence was passed on Melinda , who was duly imprisoned in the hold . |
| 6 | Some 580 claimants , many of whom came forward after the critical BBC Panorama television programme on triazolam in October , 1991 , can expect to receive limited legal aid to allow for investigation of their claims . |
| 7 | The Bok selectors do , however , seem to have made an effort to add some pace to the back row in the form of Pretorius and Richter , both of whom showed well when Northern Transvaal produced comfortably the best provincial performance of the Antipodean tours to take the Wallabies to the wire . |
| 8 | The MP 's on the Committee , who agreed unanimously on the report , criticise the Government 's record on energy efficiency , stating that energy efficiency " is the most obvious and most effective response to the problem of global warming " . |
| 9 | It can be seen that data were collected at referral for all those who agreed initially to take part in the project . |
| 10 | The politicians who cobbled together the convention 's proposals still call themselves Unionists . |
| 11 | Editor , — Four groups of doctors suffer particularly from age discrimination during their attempts to move through the hospital training grades to consultant appointments : doctors who qualified abroad , those who entered medical school after the normal age of 18–19 , those who have had prolonged illness , and women . |
| 12 | Thus , of the 198 asthmatics who qualified as ‘ consecutive and unselected , ’ 12 ( 6% ) declined and 186 ( 94% ) consented to have endoscopy . |
| 13 | from the outset GKR concentrated exclusively on executive search , unlike Alexander Hughes and many other 1960s contemporaries , who clung either to management consultancy or selection as a sideline . |
| 14 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 15 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Betty Titford was clearly getting no better as years went by , and she must have had friends who realised only too well that 1s. a fortnight could hardly supply even her most fundamental needs . |
| 17 | Horror stories abound : of the rogue 's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again ; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market ; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction . |
| 18 | A typical example is the sentence ‘ Those who sold quickly made a profit ’ . |
| 19 | This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit |
| 20 | This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit |
| 21 | The difference caused by the placement of the tone-unit boundary is seen to be equivalent to giving two different paraphrases of the sentences , as in : a ) A profit was made by those who sold quickly . |
| 22 | The tea-houses were poor places with earthen floors and blackened walls , and the fruit and vegetable sellers , squatting beneath awnings , were all specialists who sold only one kind of produce each . |
| 23 | The operator of the mechanical digger who unearthed both was not sure . |
| 24 | It gave the Celts delightful chieftains , such as Lovernius who entertained hugely : " And when at length he fixed a day for the ending of the feast , a Celtic poet who arrived too late met Lovernius and composed a song magnifying his greatness and lamenting his own late arrival . |
| 25 | This custom continued under David Barclay , who entertained there George I in 1714 , George II in 1727 , and the young George III and his new bride in 1761 , the last occasion attracting widespread interest in the metropolitan press . |
| 26 | All 38 patients who complied strictly with the gluten free diet reported a considerable improvement in wellbeing and resolution of symptoms after starting the diet . |
| 27 | Dentan cites an informant who asked rhetorically ‘ what good does it do an unhappy person to have another person upset ? ’ ( 1968 : 64 ) . |
| 28 | And the boys would let in anyone who asked politely , of course . ’ |
| 29 | This is to some extent contradicted by Lloyd George , who subsequently wrote : ‘ It is now a matter of history how we expressed our readiness to serve under Mr Balfour-all of us except Mr Asquith , who asked indignantly , ‘ What is the proposal ? |
| 30 | The taxi driver , who asked only to be known as Terry , became the next victim of the knifeman . |