Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapters 3–4 Who said these words in the story ? |
| 2 | like this Who got this for you ? |
| 3 | Really going for it , but the advances also led to weaknesses around his king and if the kingside files become open , then it is far from clear who benefits most , as the game shows . |
| 4 | Much in the same vein is Henry V who has several well known ‘ set ’ speeches , full of fireworks , as well as the difficult and testing soliloquy on the responsibility of leadership that begins ‘ Upon the King … |
| 5 | You get an isolated few who get smashed . |
| 6 | Yet the war goes on and more arrivals — veterans of the Khmer Rouge , the South Vietnamese army , the Salvadorean death squads — come to replace the lucky few who make enough money to escape the war of Los Angeles . |
| 7 | The few who discovered this later naturally felt that this part of their training was not helpful . |
| 8 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 9 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 10 | While some prodigies struggle without the right challenges and others burn out on reaching university , there are a few who face another obstacle — parental jealousy . |
| 11 | Those who are most adept at wielding the bow are not always in control of the pen , and the few who possess equal facility in both often lack the will to write . |
| 12 | From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself . |
| 13 | The loyal few who paid full price at the turnstiles deserved better , but the real losers were Sheffield Eagles , who wanted a tour game and would have used the opportunity much more imaginatively . |
| 14 | Twenty-five years loyal Service to Douglas Reyburn — that is what has been achieved by Mrs Isobel Tannock and Hugh Donaghy who are now amongst the special few who have each contributed a quarter century to the success of their company . |
| 15 | They are loathe to admit it , but those few who have single cells will weep into their pillows at night . |
| 16 | The fifth , René Lévesque , likewise recognized for his visionary leadership , was the premier of Quebec between 1976 and 1985 who brought that province to the brink of separation from the rest of Canada . |
| 17 | All adult women won the vote in 1928 , after partially winning it for women over 30 who possessed some property in 1918 . |
| 18 | Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital . |
| 19 | Currie ( 1987 ) has noted that there are some who maintain that policy is turning full circle back into a fully discretionary mode . |
| 20 | Some who follow this line of thinking argue that if there is a form of learning wrapped up in ‘ higher learning ’ , it is learning how to learn . |
| 21 | But the Christmas mummers remained — and some who read this will be able to recall them . |
| 22 | Some who read this will be those who sense the call of God to plant churches . |
| 23 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 24 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 25 | George Will , a political commentator of rarefied taste , is another who thinks that sport should be taken seriously . |
| 26 | You swore to destroy my father and take his castle when he refused your offer for Alice — ‘ t was evil , but no worse than many another who coveted another man 's property . |
| 27 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 28 | From our region Sarah Nicklin of Worcestershire , a 26 year old who finished 62nd on the order of merit last year . |
| 29 | The seven year old who shows outstanding promise when playing the violin , the eight year old who is fascinated with negative numbers , the four year old who can read fluently , the eleven year old who can design computer programmes … must have these gifts cherished , not have them dismissed or confined . |
| 30 | Hence , these regulations penalise those unemployed who use successful , but the least observable , job search strategies and may discourage them from using those strategies . |