Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to make suggestions for character developments , all of which they would n't allow . |
| 2 | There something terrible has happened to them of which they will not speak : ‘ A darkness lies behind us … and we have turned our backs on it ’ ( p. 141 ) . |
| 3 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 4 | Further , there seems no reason to suppose that mental events do not also occupy space-as do other events of which we can not specify the minute space or the minute and myriad spaces which they occupy . |
| 5 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 6 | In fact the mentality of the hearing is set to define dumbness as belonging to any vocal barrage of which one can not make heads or tails . |
| 7 | I know there is something in your past of which you will not speak . |
| 8 | The Belgian watched the television , of which he could not understand a word . |
| 9 | In his dreams , Boyd Stych made a million for his son out of forty-storey apartment blocks , and was chased by a flying book the name of which he could not see . |
| 10 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 11 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 12 | But this would be of limited value to the defendant , since any costs recovered by the defendant would be subject to a charge in favour of the board under section 16 of the Act and the operation of regulation 103 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , the detail of which I need not examine , and would have the effect in this case that the defendant would in fact recover only a very small proportion of the costs he actually incurred . |
| 13 | A ten For the next hour I took delivery of many additional purchases , the vast majority of which I could n't remember purchasing . |
| 14 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 15 | Mr McMillan said : ‘ They have been guilty of what we would not expect from professional people in the late twentieth century . |
| 16 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 17 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 18 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 19 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 20 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 21 | Dr Neil turned away from inspecting his own bookshelves , said , apropos of what she could not imagine , ‘ You are not English , I perceive , Miss McAllister . ’ |
| 22 | So you were n't aware of what he could n't do , so much as what he could do and did do , and how little of it you could understand . |