Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You had an anonymous female voice , which I assume belonged to Brenda Kelly , the producer , occasionally asking a question or providing a short commentary , but usually the people who appeared on the programme spoke for themselves , to camera , about their music .
2 Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage .
3 The windows have been cleaned for the first time in a year , and what with my contact lenses ( which I 've had since Christmas ) , the view is much improved .
4 Patrick himself made a statement to my sister which I 've got on tape , saying he 'd been discarded by the woman he married .
5 see if I can get a grade A for this one , that , if I can get a grade A for the er next two pieces that I 'm doing , which I 've got to hand in , that could take me to a B grade after that .
6 Oh , erm yes indeed we have , erm it 's that was a report which I 've put to Local Government Information which was in fact written by or contributed by officer Roy Holt and on the to erm have a look at that , have a copy of it I mean .
7 It is however a rather different criticism which I wish to bring to Trible 's work , one which runs in parallel with my critique of Schüssler Fiorenza 's work .
8 I have already prepared a directory in Russian , which I plan to translate with advice on relevant matters .
9 ‘ Many are very insistent and they try to press leaflets on people which I think amounts to harassment . ’
10 Again , the same question may be asked as that which I have asked in relation to Schüssler Fiorenza 's work : given that in every age women have been mistreated at the hands of men , how much do present-day women really have in common with biblical women ?
11 I have climbed it from all sides , every time making new discoveries , finding new surprises and delights and , let me confess , secret places from which I have recoiled in horror .
12 To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy .
13 Heading , nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety two harvest , certified is aaron , white , clover , ex-challenge seeds , New Zealand , underline I am sending you copies of correspondence which I have sent to Phillip , comma , Roger , comma , Oliver and Joe , which I hope is self explanatory , paragraph .
14 During this period I have given readings and seminar papers at various academic centres , including the universities of Oxford , Durham , Edinburgh , Essex , Manchester , Lancaster , Newcastle , Sussex , and East Anglia , and have written a number of unpublished papers which I have given in seminars at other similar establishments .
15 While writing this book I carried out a personal survey of the whole sky , using the binoculars which I have listed on page 16 .
16 However , I reached my decision on the basis to which I have deposed in paragraphs 8 , 9 and 10 above .
17 Similar points arise in relation to section 61(1) as those which I have made regarding section 6(2) .
18 But with the new ethos to which I have referred of youngsters carrying knives , allegedly for their own protection , there is a real danger that there will be another explosion of such crimes .
19 I return letter to you ( undated ) which I have copied to Hans Kuwall , DSO Manager , with whom I have discussed the request made by Edinburgh University Ski Club .
20 I gratefully adopt the summary of facts set out in the judgment of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. , which I have read in draft , and I respectfully agree with the general propositions of law which he lays down .
21 Erm , there is one slight technical problem which I have to overcome in relation to a computer terminal but I 'll erm face that problem at if and when that situation develops .
22 There is very considerable evidence which I have reviewed at length elsewhere that , since parting company with the ancestors of today 's great apes and since acquiring numerous gelada-like adaptations , the human race has been subject to an evolutionary process known as neoteny or foetalization .
23 In addition to all the differences which I have itemized in terms of age structure , family formation and lengths of generations , we should note also that the British population in the past was less racially and ethnically diverse , being almost exclusively white .
24 I made his socks on my Singer KE2400 single bed machine which I have had for years .
25 This will be based on information which has been made available to me or which I have requested in accordance with clause [ specify ] of the Agreement .
26 The notion of indexical meaning ( which I have expounded in detail in Widdowson 1983 , 1984a , and which 1 shall discuss again in Chapter 7 ) is crucial here .
27 He commented that it was a result ‘ very similar to the reaction which I have found with water from the Chalice Well at Glastonbury ’
28 For example , one exercise which I have used in class is a play called Justice by John Galsworthy .
29 But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ .
30 It is the latter statement which you have to take on trust .
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