Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [noun] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes a pact with the devil whereby the devil will be his servant and do his bidding for 24 years , after which time he will render up his immortal soul . |
| 2 | However , if males differ in their quality , it could pay females to be choosy about which males they will mate with . |
| 3 | The other reason for worrying about which version you should use relates to AUTHENTICITY . |
| 4 | The Scottish Transport Group will give advice about which body it should go to . |
| 5 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 6 | I would not anticipate taking more than half an hour to complete the filming during which time we would make every endeavour not to restrict access to your shop by other customers . |
| 7 | After Canjuers , we would return to Orange for six weeks , during which time we would celebrate Christmas and the New Year , before moving to a battle camp near Nîmes for a fortnight . |
| 8 | Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone . |
| 9 | The leader then turns away from the children during which time they can advance . |
| 10 | Assistant food and beverage managers must first complete our 10-month on board training scheme during which time they will work in all areas of the kitchens , bars , restaurants and storerooms . |
| 11 | ‘ You come back in ninety-five minutes , during which time I will have meditated . |
| 12 | The cuttings will remain in this position until the following autumn — 12 months — during which period you will need to keep an eye on them for pest and disease and , of course , include them in your routine precautionary spraying and care . |
| 13 | In view of the warm weather , he suggested that we should take a walk , for which purpose he would change into lighter things . |
| 14 | She was studying at public school for her ‘ O ’ levels , and had a clear idea of which university she would go to and what she would study there . |
| 15 | Young girls would come to her to have their fortunes read , to see what sort of husbands they would get , the number of children they would have and so forth , all of which circumstance she would signify by movements of her hands and fingers . |
| 16 | For example , a small boy was seen once by an educational psychologist at his parents ' request on a problem of which hand he should write with . |
| 17 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 18 | In 1873 Walter Pater 's book , The Renaissance , first appeared ; its Epicurean message that art is to help us maintain ecstasy is far from the view of Lieberich , in the light of whose lecture we can see why the aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century came about — in reaction to representational theories , in the age of photography . |
| 19 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 20 | We are all glad of whatever help we can beg , in that case . |
| 21 | ‘ I knew very well that when he said that he meant ‘ in spite of whatever help I shall give you ’ . |
| 22 | It was angled so that only the captain could see it and Jezrael had no knowledge of what it showed , only her own innate fear of what damage it might cause . |
| 23 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 24 | ‘ Indefinite ’ science is obviously extremely important , for without some understanding of what general shape a causal explanation should take and of what concepts it should use , it would not be possible to give a detailed , or ’ limited' , causal account of the particular causes of some particular effect . |
| 25 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 26 | I mean it 's a case of of what time we 'd make the journey is n't it ? |
| 27 | Over the last decade and a half strong ecological conservationist movements have emerged and yet there is still no clear idea of how to deal with the ecological problems , nor of what goals we should set . |
| 28 | But to show such contempt , such disregard of what talent she might possess — that was what she found unforgivable . |
| 29 | But since no one had told me about what had taken place the night before , I had no idea of what advice they would give . |
| 30 | Assuming sex education is given to the child by a school , the question of what form it should take must be considered . |