Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one selective co-educational secondary school at Worcester College and a large all-age school at Exhall Grange , Warwickshire , both of which draw from a national catchment . |
| 2 | I shall not forget how your husband helped a new and inexperienced Head to see what was wrong with the school 's Art Room , helped also in pressing in the right quarter , for its improvement — all of which resulted in a much-needed tonic for the Art teaching in the school . |
| 3 | THE RSPCA has been criticised for bringing two ‘ home alone ’ court cases , only one of which resulted in a successful prosecution . |
| 4 | The body is divided into zones , each one of which relates to a corresponding zone on the underside of the foot . |
| 5 | A qualified iridologist can identify about 200 different iris markings , each one of which relates to a different area or organ of the body . |
| 6 | Consider the following example , which on the surface is simple to understand , but the precise meaning of which depends upon a careful scrutiny of key words . |
| 7 | Competition is mainly between a small number of large companies , each of which operates across a broad range ; NEC , Hitachi , Toshiba , and Matsushita are companies of this general electronics type — they are vertically integrated , manufacturing the microelectronic components for their own end products . |
| 8 | The Australian desert , for example , is structurally an ancient worn-down plateau of crystalline and ancient sedimentary rocks , the more resistant of which rise to a thousand metres or more ( a few thousand feet ) above the general surface level . |
| 9 | In particular , they will not wish to sell longer dated bills , the prices of which rise by a larger amount for a given change in interest rates . |
| 10 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 11 | In Catnic Components Ltd. v Hill & Smith Ltd. [ 1982 ] , the plaintiff obtained a patent for a load bearing lintel , the main strength of which came from a vertical metal rear face . |
| 12 | Ms Dickinson explained that the committee last year placed four advertisements , two of which appeared in a 16-page December children 's book supplement in the Independent on Sunday . |
| 13 | As an example , consider a case where two words are combined , the first of which ends with a single final consonant ( which we will call C f ) and the second of which starts with a single initial consonant ( which we will call C i ) ; we can construct a diagram like this : |
| 14 | ‘ MEETING JESUS ’ by Leighton Ford contains 13 studies each of which looks at a different aspect of who Jesus is . |
| 15 | As an example , consider a case where two words are combined , the first of which ends with a single final consonant ( which we will call C f ) and the second of which starts with a single initial consonant ( which we will call C i ) ; we can construct a diagram like this : |
| 16 | A trustee in a sequestrated estate , part of which consisted of a public house business , who did not himself hold the certificate or retail excisable liquor , was held not to be disqualified under the corresponding provision then in force : Lundie v. Magistrates of Falkirk ( 1890 ) 18 R. 60 . |
| 17 | Some slight insight into early local agricultural practices may be obtained from such things as Anglo-Saxon charters , details of which have been published ( from 1961 onwards ) in a series of volumes called The Early Charters of … , and commentaries on land usage such as in The Domesday Geography of … , each volume of which deals with a particular region . |
| 18 | The solicitor was strongly professionally oriented : he would regale one with legal anecdotes , the humour of which depended on a prior deferential attitude to barristers and judges ; he was strict in his interpretation of professional ethics . |
| 19 | In the new scheme , worldwide sales are divided into three regions each of which report to a new vice-president of worldwide sales . |
| 20 | In the third year there is a choice of four special subjects in Irish History or Politics , each of which leads to a supervised dissertation in the second term . |
| 21 | Ermine negligées ; bath in milk , numerous underpanties , chemises and other intimate items , all of which look like a million dollars on the svelte Ralston figure , just round enough . ’ |
| 22 | In the back rooms of Whitehall , where they worked on the knotty problem of what to do in a national emergency , there was a file on the likely effects of German air attacks on London . |
| 23 | As word of what seemed like a miraculous survival spread , the gloom within Palestinian communities throughout the Middle East turned to joy . |
| 24 | They rattled along the main street of what looked like a typical East Anglian village . |
| 25 | I recently received a photograph of what looked like a measuring jug with a spout like a teapot rather than with at the top . |
| 26 | Howarth could just make out the shape of what looked like a small purse , a lipstick , a folded sheet of paper . |
| 27 | I saw a corner of what looked like a rusted iron plate protruding from a pile of brick rubble . |
| 28 | Julie looked to her left and caught a glimpse of what looked like a large terraced house fronted by a blue and white canvas awning . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend does well to remind the House of what happens under a Labour Government . |
| 30 | They are appropriate in different circumstances but each provides simple , clear , and unambiguous ways of describing the logic of what happens in a particular process . |