Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Rampant Rottweilers are preferable to an XR2 with a double row of headlights blazing as it roars up behind you and a sticker in the back window which taunts you with ‘ Blondes Have More Fun ’ as it races past into the distance . |
| 2 | Even more extraordinary is the paucity of such information in the captions to the colour figures , which renders them of little use to the hobbyist . |
| 3 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 4 | Last season , Dungannon won the Ulster League which qualified them for a ‘ round-robin ’ series with the other provincial winners in a bid to gain entry to the AIL . |
| 5 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 6 | In 1964 the TUC sold its 40 per cent of the Herald to the Mirror Group , which relaunched it as the Sun . |
| 7 | Among the liberal Russian press , Moskovskiye novosti of July 19 commented that " the SC has been given powers which raise it above the government " ; and Kommersant also compared the newly empowered SC to the former communist party politburo , because of its potential power , its secrecy and its non-accountability . |
| 8 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 9 | Unhelpful behaviours are those which hinder you from achieving your objective and/or which run the risk of giving other people a bad impression of you . |
| 10 | Engineers were dominated by craft unionism which divided them by organization and levels of skill even within the newly created Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 11 | Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth . |
| 12 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
| 13 | For Marx , the peasant represented a conservative force because of his structural position in society , which separates him from those who might share his class interests . |
| 14 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 15 | That is , that he came to Earth to save mankind from the wrong in the world , which separates us from God . |
| 16 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 17 | And although the er , the causal relationship is not completely established , it is a very helpful way of remembering that one of the principle distinguishing features of this organism which separates it from other members of the genus staphylococcus it pr it produces this enzyme to coagulate things on and the effects of this enzyme are illustrated here as against the control preparation , you see a clot form due to the action of this enzyme on clotting practice which has been put into this test tube serum . |
| 18 | Diarrhoea which drives them from bed in the morning , worse ( < ) at 5 am . |
| 19 | It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations . |
| 20 | A dress which enveloped her in an aura of purity . |
| 21 | I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision . |
| 22 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 23 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 24 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 25 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 26 | In this case it is clearer , because of the greater number of possibilities , that the substitutes for table which normalise the sentence ( lit , buffet , journal , balcon , etc. ) have no common semantic properties which distinguish them from items ( such as chaise , bibliothèque , revue , assiette ) which do not remove the oddness : |
| 27 | It is envisaged that an analysis of such information will enable the identification of those financial , entrepreneurial , technical and regional factors which are most associated with the growth and performance of subcontracting small firms and which distinguish them from other more ‘ typical ’ small firms . |
| 28 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 29 | None the less , there are some aspects to the present acid house craze which distinguish it from its predecessors and which need attention . |
| 30 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |