Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 2 | The identity of ‘ Ted Winters ’ has not been established , but despite the definite identification of only two of the Hurricanes claimed by 7/JG 26 in the period 28 April — 1 May , A.H.Q. Malta reported that actual R.A.F. losses in these four days amounted to six Hurricanes — closely in line with the claims — four by Müncheberg , one of which was not confirmed , one by Mietusch , two by Kühdorf — apparently neither of which were confirmed — and possibly one by Johannsen . |
| 3 | It was not even that he conformed so little to what I had imagined . |
| 4 | Where an odour has multi-sources this problem is exacerbated especially when it is created by two or more chemicals coming together neither of which individually amount to a nuisance . |
| 5 | This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home . |
| 6 | What strikes one about the names of the " few friends " is that there are so few of what one might call Islay family names . |
| 7 | There is a massive amount of writing about art , only some of which can immediately be identified by a reader as criticism . |
| 8 | There are various ways of defining validity , only some of which can be quantified . |
| 9 | There is no simple kind of sexual liberation possible which will eradicate the neuroses caused by sexual repression without , at the same time , producing social changes , only some of which may be controllable in rational ways . |
| 10 | There are two overriding questions relating to the feasibility of such tests , both leading to a host of technical and organizational questions , only some of which could be adequately tackled in this project . |
| 11 | Rain 's mind was only half on what he was saying . |
| 12 | That will mean $3 billion-4 billion , only half of which he plans to get from further cost-cutting . |
| 13 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 14 | Any system that costs the British taxpayer more than £2.5 billion , only half of which reaches farmers , is an absurdity and must be abolished . |
| 15 | ‘ The first lesson on entering this house , Katherine , is that you must take only half of what your father says to me seriously , ’ the Princesse responded in kind . |
| 16 | I sometimes wish I did n't think so much about what I do , and just pottered along doing it the way it 's always been done ( like the bloke in the next-door room does ! ) . |
| 17 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 18 | By the eighteenth century , the Alps were practically bankrupt , especially the Swiss Alps , so much of whose terrain was Alpine . |
| 19 | Despite the immediate success of the new fleet of 125mph trains which brought new standards of safety and on-board comfort firstly on the Western Region services out of London ( Paddington ) and then on the East Coast main line from London ( King 's Cross ) , so much of what had been gained in the late 1970s was lost as the economic recession started to bite . |
| 20 | However , so much of what is now being produced lacks these very qualities that it may be more useful to look at successful artists ' work to find an answer to this question . |
| 21 | By twentieth-century standards the Thatcher governments have been radical and successful — not only in winning elections but in achieving so much of what they intended . |
| 22 | Liverpool seems unique , not simply because of the scale of its problems but also because of the consistent pattern of political conflict that has characterized so much of what has happened in the city and in its relations with central government . |
| 23 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 24 | Besides which it 's a heck of a time for Noorda to be discussing succession — when so much of what can be accomplished with Unix seems to depend on his personal touch . |
| 25 | Firstly , it might argue that so much of what doctors do lacks solid scientific support that it would be ludicrous to try to insist that all doctors practise scientifically valid medicine all the time . |
| 26 | In each of these examples Acheson was , of course , referring to China but so much of what he said here ( or to which he gave his name ) now seems to be an epitaph for the experiences of Vietnam . |
| 27 | So much of what has been written is of the doom and gloom variety . |
| 28 | It seems that the work I do takes so much of what is essential in me that there is nothing left . |
| 29 | As with so much of what he envisaged , the reality did not quite match the vision . |
| 30 | Not so much of what would happen . |