Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |
| 2 | This information was then transferred to a new map using Briggs ' Key to give an impression of where the second zone might possibly be ( fig 4 ) . |
| 3 | Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |
| 5 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 6 | The strong smell of damp and cats gave a quick explanation of why the first two floors of the building were uninhabited . |
| 7 | He laid particular emphasis on those passages in the New Testament ( e.g. Mark 13 : 32 ) that emphasize our total ignorance of when the Second Coming will occur . |
| 8 | This brilliant piece of oratory which I have in my hand here , in addition to many other valuable insights , contains three alternative definitions of faith , two gentle digs at Professor , and one definitive statement of when the third millennium begins . |
| 9 | Now there 's a new twist : how come we can know when a missile is even threatening to fall on Tel Aviv or Riyadh or Dharan , yet remain ignorant of when the next train will leave Waterloo station — or where it is heading ? |
| 10 | I think the er the Home Secretary will be becoming increasingly concerned er if there is n't a a conclusion by mid April but I think maybe er honourable friends on both sides of the house may want to onto when the last date should be . |
| 11 | He started , as he had intended , from where the last interview had left off and went quickly over the ground again . |
| 12 | from where the last one finished each time . |
| 13 | A pseudo-variable which points to the position within the file from where the next byte to be read will be taken or where the next byte to be written will be put . |
| 14 | The company says its experience this time through is different from when the first Snakes were delayed by shortfalls in the Texas Instruments Inc-produced floating point unit because it 's controlling all design and all fabrication . |
| 15 | Politicians are also largely silent on how the next government will be able to carry out spending plans in view of the state of the productive economy . |
| 16 | You would never guess it , she is so modest , but she knows more than anyone else in England on how the eighteenth century reader regarded Scandinavia … . |
| 17 | Ideas about the structure of glass date back 50 years or more to when the first diffuse X-ray scattering measurements on the material were being made a by B. E. Warren and others . |
| 18 | She used to attend the general discussion part and make her views known as to where the next shop would be . |
| 19 | On the most recent occasion , supervisor Melvyn Relly had his vehicle stolen within minutes of arriving at the office , and with faint hope of success , Nick Graham , surveyor , drove Melvyn out to where the last car was recovered along streets neighbouring the Nottingham office . |
| 20 | In its defence , X/Open says it has already identified how and where OLTP products need to interface , though it does n't specify them and would n't put a timeframe on when the first X/Open-branded OLTP product would be available . |
| 21 | The pigeon had still not passed on when the last fly leaf sputtered out an hour or more later . |
| 22 | It is not clear what happened next , and there is some dispute about how the first amphibians actually breathed . |
| 23 | Another interesting mid-price reissue comes from Sony Classical and features the late Leonard Bernstein , not only performing Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic , but also talking about how the first movement evolved from the composer 's sketches . |
| 24 | And the victims ' relatives found policemen more worried about where the next beer was coming from , than catching killers . |