Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As , heels clicking on the polished slabs , Luce followed the black-clad figure through the shuttered gloom she remarked , ‘ I have n't discovered what the palazzo is called , or who owns it . |
| 2 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 3 | Their administration is in chaos and they do n't know who they owe or who owes them . |
| 4 | We do n't know who we owe , or who owes us , or whether we have dispatched orders , or received purchases . |
| 5 | Unless Mr Gorbachev , or whoever succeeds him , proposes to rule from a tank turret , both these points will eventually have to be conceded anyway . |
| 6 | From where and whom does it draw its strength ? |
| 7 | The verse in the Bible which has been most misquoted and misunderstood is Leviticus 15.19 , which says : ‘ And if a woman have an issue , and her issue in her flesh be blood , she shall be in her impurity seven days ; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even . ’ |
| 8 | And who supplies you with flour ? |
| 9 | But rugby maverick , 34-year-old Tim Wilby , now guesting with his eighth club and who describes himself in rugby 's who 's who as a ‘ socialite ’ , lends his distinctive skills and experience to the pack . |
| 10 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 11 | It is not a happy precedent and if Mr Major is to avoid it , he needs somebody at the Treasury who commands confidence , and who deserves it . |
| 12 | ‘ So why do n't you go and find a girl you really like and who likes you very much . ’ |
| 13 | A person who is entitled to the temporary possession of a chattel and who delivers it back to the owner for a special purpose may , after that purpose is satisfied and during the existence of his temporary right , sue the owner for conversion of it ; a fortiori he can sue anyone else . |
| 14 | Because of this , a Marxist theoretical construction of the social system implied that one should start by ignoring people 's beliefs and ideas and by looking at who produces what and who gets what is produced . |
| 15 | By a resource allocation for an economy we mean a list or complete description of who does what and who gets what . |
| 16 | ‘ There will be no arguments over who gets which CDs and who gets which half of the dining table . |
| 17 | But I think a feminist is somebody who knows that she wants a decent life , she wants to be in control of her own destiny , and who thinks she 's entitled to that . |
| 18 | It is important to appoint someone reliable and who understands your wishes . |
| 19 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 20 | The question arises who is this analysis for , and who does what about it ? |
| 21 | Quite where the jobs are going and who does what at this stage I 'm not sure now we 're UNISON . |
| 22 | The size of the grant will depend on the work you have done , and who does it . |
| 23 | Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ? |
| 24 | It is , however , also commonly used in an opposite sense , as in the consumer movement 's version of consumerism , to denote suspicion of consumer goods , a wish to know more about how they are produced and who produces them . |
| 25 | Not only does the state with the help and reinforcement of its control agencies , criminologists , and the media conceptualize a particular and partial ideological version of serious crime and who commits it , but it does so by concealing and hence mystifying its own propensity for violence and serious crimes on a much larger scale . |
| 26 | ‘ And who says I have relinquished the helm ? ’ |
| 27 | But how about a fresh older face that nobody knows , a fresh older face that belongs to a fellow who never thought he would win seven or eight tournaments in his career , and who says he is in awe of his 1990 season . |
| 28 | ‘ And who says it 's out of character ? |
| 29 | And who says it 's trouble ? |
| 30 | It is the Spirit who adopts us alongside Christ into this sonship with God , and who enables us to cry the ‘ Abba ’ of little children in the family of God . |