Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mer-doll and T-shirt opportunities appear to be limitless ; making balance-sheet splashes are Disney 's The Little Mermaid and the upcoming Cher movie Mermaids — a tail story in which she plays a single mother of two who leads a less-than-respectable love life . |
| 2 | Gwendolen 's first glimpse of Ryelands is also a picture — a ‘ white house … with a hanging wood for a background , and the rising and sinking balustrade of a terrace in front ’ — but this graceful place , despite the warmth and light inside it , is the context in which she faces the chilling implications of ‘ getting her choice ’ . |
| 3 | It is hard to think of any aspect of Gertrude Stein 's Three Lives that has not been covered , except the exploratory and explanatory uses to which she puts the black woman who holds centre stage in that work . |
| 4 | Pamina 's G minor aria ‘ Ach , ich fühls ’ , in which she laments the apparent loss of Tamino 's love , is one of the simplest , yet most heartfelt musical expressions of grief ever penned . |
| 5 | MY ATTENTION has been drawn to the letter from Muriel Green ( HAS May 5 ) , chairwoman of the education committee , North Tyneside Council , in which she defends the comprehensive school ideal . |
| 6 | Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research , which he says the previous government allowed to run down . |
| 7 | I remind the Secretary of State of the haemorrhaging that has taken place , resulting in a severe loss of jobs in Wales for which he bears a heavy responsibility . |
| 8 | But the most objectionable aspect of his article is the airy complacency with which he identifies the psychological morbidity of all but his chosen few . |
| 9 | ‘ In Anthony Asquith 's delicate direction , the film has its power precisely in the care with which he presents the moral discussion of the novel , ’ wrote one critic . |
| 10 | There are two parts of his life to which he devotes a great deal of space , and to which he returns again and again . |
| 11 | And in one marvellous passage , in which he contrasts the old dispensation with the new , Paul reaches this point as the climax of his theme . |
| 12 | He and Lewis are also set to work together again this year in California , in which he plays a serial killer . |
| 13 | Ready for release is the Year Of The Comet , in which he plays a seductive villain , and he is currently working on The Son Of Pink Panther , at Pinewood , directed by Blake Edwards . |
| 14 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 15 | AL PACINO is currently shooting Scented Woman , in which he plays a blind army veteran , Frank Slade , who goes to New York with the reluctant teenage boy assigned to care for him . |
| 16 | Current release Howard 's End , in which he plays an evil father , also has been nominated for an Oscar . |
| 17 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 18 | At present his status in the three books is relevant because it serves to establish Buchan 's particularly energetic version of Ruritanian adventure and the irony and humour with which he tempers the romantic colour of his fiction . |
| 19 | Bayes 's tentative solution to the problem involves assuming that the lack of knowledge of the probability about which an inference is to be made may be represented by a uniform probability distribution , for which he gives an ingenious argument . |
| 20 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 21 | It is clear from s.1(2) that once deemed an insider , the individual can be held liable for dealings in the securities of companies with which he has no direct relationship . |
| 22 | The only sort of promotion that politicians really care about — to cabinet rank — went to John Redwood , the local-government minister and member for Wokingham , who has been bizarrely translated to Wales , a place for which he has no known affinity . |
| 23 | This principle may be infringed when a member of a board takes part in the granting or the rejection of an application for a licence in which he has a personal interest . |
| 24 | Our client is the sole director of a private company in which he has a substantial interest . |
| 25 | His other relaxations are snooker , at which he has a highest break of 55 , and occasionally he also goes pheasant shooting . |
| 26 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 27 | American fast food family contrasting with a British gastronomic club in a strange black comedy , a genre for which he has a growing reputation . |
| 28 | Andrew might also consider it a useful opportunity to further his England captaincy claims , for which he has a growing number of supporters — although he expresses no such wish , since his old school-mate , Will Carling , currently holds the job . |
| 29 | The alternative view is that the reason for the present rule regarding skill and knowledge is that without it the employee might well be prevented from earning his living in the area in which he has the greatest experience . |
| 30 | In this context each individual can emphasise that aspect of the two modes of being for which he has the greatest gift and both may further the understanding of the work of love . |