Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Sutherland , opposite a whole page of contacts , enthuses in a 1946 letter : ‘ Your photographs are wonderfully good ; easily the best we have ever had taken , and I can see how important was the time and care which you took over the composition and lighting and the idea … |
| 2 | I refer to figures published by the Minister on 12 November , in which she sets out the number of prisoners currently held in police cells . |
| 3 | Steven Holmes , a pupil of Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham , designed and painted a headboard which we carry on the front of the locomotive . |
| 4 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 5 | The fossils showed that new groups originated in particular parts of the world , and focused attention on the process by which they expand around the globe , often exterminating more primitive forms as they go . |
| 6 | They bring back tales which they relate over the dinner table at Blackfriars . ’ |
| 7 | We can organise them and lead them through highly prescriptive sessions in which they act out the teacher 's scenario . |
| 8 | also newcastle fans have two HUGE flags which they transport around the ground , everyone lifting the flag around — i think it 's the only english club iv'e seen doing that — you see this kind of flagging from time to time around europe ( even up here in Trondheim ) |
| 9 | The men climb ladders to reach the most inaccessible fruit while the women collect apples in hessian sacks which they heave down the field slung over their backs . |
| 10 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |
| 11 | He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment . |
| 12 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 13 | ‘ Any person who on any premises — as aforesaid , carries on an offensive trade without such consent , if any , as at the date of establishment of the trade was required by subsection ( 1 ) of this section … shall be liable for a fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which he carried on the trade — after receiving notice from the local authority to discontinue the trade ’ . |
| 14 | Soon afterwards the headman came out of the inner room , carrying a plate of rice grains which he put on the ground beside him . |
| 15 | This exercise was perhaps most illuminating in the way in which it showed up the nerve ( or lack of it ) of the existing contractors ’ managements ; and the results demonstrated the inherent impossibility of combining apparently objective cash criteria with inevitably subjective judgements of quality . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's what you put on the inside that counts , not what you do to the outside , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It 's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name . ’ |
| 18 | what they use up the school a proper computers , the screens and printouts and mouses and |