Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb -s] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now want to understand how it achieves its own behaviour , in terms of its own internal parts . |
| 2 | The organisational changes that come with white-collar CCT and its attendant activities create an environment where it is all the more imperative for the traditionally federal style of Town Hall management to look very carefully at how it manages its electronic records . |
| 3 | The true test of a free society is not in how it treats its best citizens , but in how it treats its worst , its most despised . |
| 4 | Your students will be absorbed by the adventures of Peter : how he copes with the problems of learning English and the hostility of his classmates , and how he discovers his true identity . |
| 5 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 6 | Liz will provide the voice-over for baby Little Maggie when she says her first word — ‘ Daddy ! ’ |
| 7 | Many local people are already asking when she begins her next fundraising venture . |
| 8 | And a lot will depend on the 27-year-old tomorrow when he gets his first taste of League of Ireland football . |
| 9 | Sir David will strive to bolster confidence today , when he gives his annual address at the opening of the new session of the Legislative Council . |
| 10 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 11 | Mr Major will have to share a flight with French Euro Commission president Jacques Delors when he makes his controversial trip to America . |
| 12 | He occasionally uses his verbal felicity as a means of protecting his negative face , just as he does when he makes his ethical arguments for turning down Hollar 's request deliberately complex . |
| 13 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |
| 14 | Paddy Shennan asked actor Michael Starke what he does when he puts his shammy leather down . |
| 15 | However , the company plans to buy shelf space in the New Year , when it launches its new title , House Beautiful , as a monthly magazine . |
| 16 | DESPITE the recession , supermarket group Tesco is expected to ring up another 28 p.c. profits rise tomorrow when it unveils its full-year results . |
| 17 | Scarcely any aspect of life in the countries where he passes his voluntary exile has failed to incur his pessimistic censure . |
| 18 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |