Example sentences of "[Wh det] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 2 | At the early end of parenting women can spend literally years in a state of near exhaustion , which for them can make sexual relations very unattractive . |
| 3 | In 1921 , Siqueiros had urged artists to ‘ avoid those lamentable archaeological reconstructions ’ ( ‘ Indianism ’ , ‘ Primitivism ’ , ‘ Americanism' ) but he had also warned against the use of ‘ archaic motifs ’ from the old masters of European art ‘ which for us would be exotic ’ ; instead his advice was to study the arts of both , learning from the ‘ constructive base ’ , the ‘ great sincerity ’ , of the latter , and the ‘ synthetic energy ’ of the former , to combine the ‘ lost values ’ of the past with new values to produce an art appropriate to modern America . |
| 4 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 5 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 6 | Most parents , though , have a world-view which as you may expect does include ‘ their ’ children as fully paid-up members of the species . |
| 7 | The cost of the trip will be £300/£350 per person , which as you can appreciate is no small sum . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for Kemp , however , Cedric Downes discovered the guilty pair in flagrante delicto , which as you will remember , Lewis , is the Latin for having your pants down . |
| 9 | Which of them shall I favour , eh ? |
| 10 | Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one-sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick . |
| 11 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 12 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 13 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 14 | Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum . |
| 15 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 16 | Let's look in this bucket and see which of these things will float and which of them will sink . |
| 17 | Every seven years representatives of the eight magical colleges in Altdorf meet to decide which of them will reign as the Supreme Patriarch for the next seven years . |
| 18 | First , is it inevitable that political parties , not voters , should rank candidates on their lists , and thus decide which of them will have the best chances of being elected ? |
| 19 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 20 | The audience and readership profiles of the various media will help to ermine which of them should be included on your list 1 which can be safely left out . |
| 21 | As the four-man squad loped , half-crouching , along the space station 's strangely-twisting corridors , Ace and Daak were squabbling about which of them should guard the other 's back . |
| 22 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 23 | As the king abdicates , he divides up his kingdom as a dower for his three daughters , and orders them — ‘ Tell me , my daughters ’ — to declare the quantity of their love : ‘ Which of you shall we say doth love us most ? ’ |
| 24 | Which of you would like coffee and what kind ? |
| 25 | Delia Sutherland was thinking : Who 'll be the first , which of you will speak up ? |
| 26 | ‘ Which of you can take on men ? ’ he sniggered . |
| 27 | ( If our motives had to be completely pure , which of us would pass the test ? ) |
| 28 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |
| 29 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |
| 30 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |