Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
| 2 | The country is divided into nine regions and in each of these we have someone or in some cases two people , who represents us in the regional Standing Conference of Sport and Recreation , and also on the Movement and Dance Liaison Group or Association . |
| 3 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 4 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |
| 5 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 6 | Here they run across wayward convent schoolgirl Kim , Holly Marie Combs , who directs them to the deserted cafe of Kate , an enigmatic Karen Sillas . |
| 7 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 8 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 9 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |
| 10 | We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’ |
| 11 | And Des Esseintes , the aristocrat recluse in Huysmans Against Nature , who dedicates himself to the diligent pursuit of ever more rarefied and unnatural means of stimulating the senses . |
| 12 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |