Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 2 | We found the brêche , from which we knew a steep couloir dropped to the Talefre Glacier , and started abseiling from such old slings and pegs as we could find on the sidewalls . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , we , probably unsuccessfully , tried to hide our enthusiasm , in the manner of those who have several properties to view of which this was only one in which we felt a mild interest . |
| 4 | Several years ago we wrote a paper in which we detailed a serious case of abuse of editorial power . |
| 5 | To test ( 0 , 1 5 , 1 25 ) for efficiency in P1 , we observe that x 2 , x 3 > 0 , x 1 = s 1 = s 2 = 0 so that t 2 = t 3 = 0 and the constraints of the dual problem of LP* ( 0 , 1 5 , 1 52 ) , of which we seek a non-negative solution , become |
| 6 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 7 | But it is not tautologous , and hence there must be another non-comparative use of the phrase ‘ appears white ’ — a use in which we make a genuine attempt to describe , without comparison , the way in which white things generally appear . |
| 8 | Finally Treblinka , on which we paid a brief courtesy call as we journeyed homeward through northern Poland to the Reich . |
| 9 | Arriving there at ll.3Oam we had time for a browse around before our Ploughman 's lunch , after which we watched a delightful display of flying owls . |
| 10 | To which we add a whole series of other factors that we then kick around and argue over . |
| 11 | The second edition of GCE evolved into a new grammar , which we named A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , published by Longman in 1985 . |
| 12 | I picked on the Aplysia examples , because they lead to one of those rare cases in which we have a neurophysiological understanding of behaviour ( Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 13 | Dolphins are probably as diverse now in terms of numbers of species , as at any time for which we have a good fossil record . |
| 14 | In an age in which we have a keen sense for the difference between fact and symbol , Wilson-Kastner makes no distinction . |
| 15 | Hotels and catering , clothing , retail , are three of the main Wages Council 's industries , of which we have a large membership . |
| 16 | Likewise , Willie Doherty 's commitment to questions of Irishness is evident in his tape-slide in which we see a single image of a man 's face and become increasingly insecure as to his identity and the meaning of this image as poetic spoken comments shift in implication . |
| 17 | He also plays a Django-type line , similar to the phrase shown in fig 9 , in which we see a descending series of trills ( fast hammer-on/pull offs ) . |
| 18 | They are to be used and shared with other people , and that 's how one of the ways in which we live a Christian life . |
| 19 | An instructive example of this approach is to be found in German law , in which we find a general right of recovery which is subject to the principle that an administrative act is , even if in fact unlawful , treated as legally effective unless and until it is cancelled , either by the authority itself or by an administrative court . |
| 20 | And then there would be a big , what we called a big shafting , going along the the side of the barn with pulleys on it . |
| 21 | Cart and er they put er what we called a big thing over the hays The hay Called that the hayrick over the . |
| 22 | So from a mass master timetable , each bus , route number was interpreted on to a what we called a running board and er it was that that the driver ran to . |
| 23 | and there 'd be two pulleys on that , what we called a loose pulley . |
| 24 | It would have done but he , he used to be what we called a proper chain smoker , oh he must have smoked hundreds of Woodbines in a week , must have been hundreds , that was his life . |
| 25 | And , Ridgeways , we had a special bits , what we called a fast bit , for er for the er o the bodywork an and instead of having the the pointed er er er cutters on , it was the flat cutters , you see , they was a bit faster . |
| 26 | Its group managing director , Robert Ayling , said : ‘ We made what we considered a generous settlement offer . |
| 27 | Yeah , now then , one of the things , when we get this complex numbers and B , itself is a real number and B itself is a real number , right , plus B , I , is actually what we call a complex number , if those two apart , they 're just numbers . |
| 28 | The second thing we 're doing is we 've we are going to attract a lot of money from what we call a specific grant for mentally ill . |
| 29 | Yeah , what we call a new cut , we dredge right opposite the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all and we used to do that tide time , had to work at ti tides , when it 's high tide , cos that otherwise there were n't any water there at all . |
| 30 | This is a just a custom you know and they just all skipped er their work and and they had a a right what we call a good tear . . |