Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [det] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A morphological indexing system was developed whereby each word in the lexicon is associated with its root . |
| 2 | They have seen it as an arrangement whereby some gain at the expense of others . |
| 3 | His group , composed of professional circus performers , approaches each project in a manner whereby all members of the community are involved . |
| 4 | I was 22 in 1934 and the Hon Mrs Bower , wife of the Tory MP for the area , and her friends on the council of social services organised a scheme whereby any lad on the dole ( and most of us were ) would be trained for private service and find jobs in London and the South . |
| 5 | Harvey told me how each part of the computer was named after a section of the human brain : the Medulla , Pons and Midbrain . |
| 6 | One of the uses of understanding how this transform of the city and savage theme continues in Eliot 's work is that in seeing how this primitive countryside ( like the animistic rose-garden ) connects with London 's metropolitan world , it becomes apparent that there is a political aspect to the Four Quartets . |
| 7 | Fortunately , during the last few years , there has been a blossoming of research which considerably increases our understanding of how this part of the machinery of planning works . |
| 8 | Although only about one third of staff are represented by their diaries , the reader can still perhaps get a ‘ feel ’ of how some parts of the school operate , and may on occasion be able to read between the lines . |
| 9 | There is clear evidence of how much people on the estate need their buses . |
| 10 | How much value to the individual will this new interpretation of the Directive be ? |
| 11 | How many times in the past had he done that to her ? |
| 12 | I wonder how many times in the past , when you 've been staying here , you 've gone to the trouble of escorting Kirsty to school ? ’ |
| 13 | Henry Cobham , Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Popham , who had ordered the report , further informed the two men " … it seemeth by some purport made unto us , that eight Kibles of God 's gift and Conistone Oares should make a quintall of Copper , and in matter of experiment in the worke , it appeareth that tenn Kibles or more doe but make a quintall of Copper , you are therefore to informe your Selves the best you can how many Kibles of the Oare now gotten at Gods gift , and Coniston will yield a Quintall of Copper , what the particular charges will amount unto , of making the said Quintall . |
| 14 | But predominating over the entire emotional range was a pervasive charge of mercantile curiosity as to how much the whole thing had cost and how many bottles of the stuff they would have to sell just to recoup the cost of the launch . |
| 15 | Also , the rewards will depend on how many locations within the Castle the adventurers have had to enter and how many battles they have had to fight . |
| 16 | Last night , Mr Worthington , who pressed for the FAI , said he had asked the health board for records of how many cases at the hospital had ended in death in recent years . |
| 17 | How many tiles between the worktop and the cupboard ? |
| 18 | For example , how many members of the cancer patient 's family have the mutant gene , and do those who have it show a greater tendency to develop cancer ? |
| 19 | However , by asking members of the elite group questions such as ‘ How many members of the group have you worked with on committees ? ’ , and ‘ How well do you know each member of the group ? ’ and ‘ Whose support would be necessary for a major project to get substantial community backing ? ’ , some elite studies of community power have revealed remarkable consensuses about the existence of elite groups , and about their power , and have supported such findings with demonstrations of the interaction of members of the supposed elite groups . |
| 20 | As a matter of interest , Mr Rees took a head count , asking how many members in the hall were aware of the impending changes ; apparently only about 30 per cent of the audience knew of the proposed amendments . |
| 21 | How many signatures on the banker 's order fine can you make sure mister Fred Smith is with you as well ? |
| 22 | How many messages have how many messages in the toilet ? |
| 23 | Given certain pieces of data , it is necessary to calculate how many words in the lexicon match this search criteria . |
| 24 | How many flies in the past , long since disintegrated and forgotten , have met their untimely end at a dexterous flick of my wrist ? |
| 25 | again which they 've had have n't they ? , for how many weeks in the year do you actually attend cos I said that you do n't get grant for the holidays and it stipulates the term |
| 26 | And how many crotchets in the bar ? |
| 27 | A clearly-defined group frequency like ν ( CO ) , which gives bands in a region where few other fundamentals are likely to occur , can be very important in determining how many examples of the group occur in each molecule and the symmetry relationships between them . |
| 28 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 29 | It shows how many items of the product ought to be on the shelf ; how many are still in the stock room ; the minimum number that the store is supposed to be carrying ; whether fresh ones have been ordered if stocks are too low ; what the current price is ; and whether that price is the Kmart standard , or has been lowered to beat local competitors . |
| 30 | Now that 's significant , that is n't just a this is n't just a debate about some vague ideological nicety , how many angels on the head of a pin ? |