Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do !
2 The growing ‘ added value ’ areas such as catering in which the regional brewers have less experience .
3 I was a little disappointed with the film ; I would like to have seen it erm more analytical , a little more hard hitting in terms of looking at what a local radio station does .
4 Nature printing is a very good example of a field of collecting in which the serious student can come to command a knowledge and expertise that the general bookseller is unlikely to match .
5 It is also unusual in including material about peace-keeping operations , a testing form of soldiering in which the Canadian armed forces have become experts in the last four decades .
6 Betrayed by one of the inner circle of disciples , Judas , he was arrested and , at passover-time probably in the year 30 of our era , executed by crucifixion — a method of killing in which the preceding torture is prolonged as long as possible , death being certain .
7 Third , the common feature of most routes will be the reliance on a rational reconstruction of a process of bargaining by which the common overriding goal of reaching an agreement leads the parties to compromise by accepting a less than perfect doctrine as the optimally realizable second best .
8 It was a form of bargaining in which the enforced departure of the customer placed all power in his hands .
9 Oh we left and oh we were all excited about going on what a great big boat and it was in fact only a small water boat .
10 Another important aspect of diversification is the need for retraining in which the agricultural training board has a dynamic role to play .
11 The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) .
12 But it has been commonly supposed that specifications along threshold level lines must be universally relevant , without reference to the definition of objectives for learning on which the original threshold level specifications are based .
13 When these methods work well ( and I write from experience ) such schools are places of tremendous enthusiasm for learning in which the great majority of children make rapid progress in academic studies and in social skills .
14 We may begin by looking at what the two terms ‘ marked ’ and ‘ unmarked ’ mean .
15 First we checked what the food supplies were like in the area simply by looking at what the local cats were bringing in .
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