Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial vulnerability of the new born is expressed in Denis Creffield 's Anxious Baby ( 1983 ) and here the parallels with those popular images of childhood which constantly interpenetrate and interrupt our day-to-day routine are obvious . |
| 2 | ‘ In your brother 's papers there is mention of something your father told him about a year ago which greatly surprised and puzzled him . |
| 3 | In addition , having listened repeatedly to the cassette he felt much happier in himself , realizing that the stammer which so embarrassed and distressed him was not going to prove incurable . |
| 4 | Also the latter sfumato technique that Ramsay favoured , in which smokily smooth and imperceptible transitions are effected between areas of colour , did not lay emphasis on the linear as the early style had . |
| 5 | ‘ I ai n't nobody 's master , ’ she said with the slight thrust of her jaw which always amused and moved him . |
| 6 | Early conceptual clarification ( Petch , 1987 ) confirmed both greater diversity than the simple dichotomy and the presence of alternative dimensions , for example decentralization and accountability , which both parallel and cross-cut the organizational debate . |
| 7 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
| 8 | However , that is not in the least to deny the importance and validity of concatenated pieces of reasoning in which both factual and ethical premisses combine . |
| 9 | The Quakers , for example , dispensed with a professional ministry altogether and held completely unstructured meetings , at which both male and female members of the congregation could testify as and when the spirit moved them ; they also developed their own simple marriage and burial services . |
| 10 | It has been argued that the conventional ‘ male breadwinner ’ earning a ‘ family wage ’ is being superseded by a new convention in which both male and female partners spend the major part of their potential working lives in employment . |
| 11 | In Osred 's first year a council was held on the banks of the River Nidd , again presided over by Archbishop Beorhtwald , at which both Aelfflaed and Berhtfrith spoke in Wilfrid 's favour ; Wilfrid was not restored to York , of which John of Beverley , bishop of Hexham , became bishop , but he was allowed to retain his former possessions of Ripon and Hexham as bishop of Hexham ( HE V , 19 : Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) . |
| 12 | Hume organised a motorcade from Derry to Stormont in which both Unionist and Nationalist politicians took part . |
| 13 | There was a Burma Research Society in which both Burmese and European scholars took part , and I was able to learn much from its regular lectures and its quarterly journal . |
| 14 | The ‘ classical ’ effect of the market and commercial competition , which both Marxist and liberal economists had taken for granted , namely a differentiation between successful and unsuccessful producers , between rural ‘ bourgeoisie ’ and rural ‘ proletariat ’ , was not taking place . |
| 15 | To rectify this state of affairs , the Report recommended a unified scheme , on a regional basis , within which both common and specialized units would cater for the various needs of part-time teachers . |
| 16 | The basis of the McClellan system is the subdivision of the bookstock — for selection and revision purposes — into categories of manageable size , within which both logistic and bibliographical decisions can be made more easily . |
| 17 | What was once a polite lament over lost species and habitats has become an outcry , a powerful force which both national and international authorities can no longer ignore . |
| 18 | Right : Permutation on a theme of ‘ S ’ in which both positive and negative elements are permuted . |
| 19 | There was something about the mystery she seemed determined to solve which both excited and enthralled him . |
| 20 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 21 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 22 | This has led to a change in the way in which both physical and social data are collected and combined in an effective conservation policy , or , as Pickering ( 1979 ) puts it , in such a way as to ensure the technical validity of a conservation technique is appropriate over the same area as its social validity . |
| 23 | Nothing short of a compulsory system in which both physical and mental training are combined , can hope to do both successfully . ’ |
| 24 | On a few previous late evening occasions Sherman had been allowed to go to this area and view the gorillas , an event which both scared and thrilled him . |
| 25 | Wambaugh , himself an ex-cop , describes the ways in which wildly autocratic and psychotic bosses set out to undermine their own ‘ front line troops on the streets ’ and describes a manual which mirrors the poster in the Northumbria police training department described above : |
| 26 | When there was a party , it often ended in the complete sacking of the local hotel ; which simultaneously shocked and impressed the more orderly French pilots . |
| 27 | Without their counsel the recommendations of the majority on the Commission would have been even less favourable to the aspirations of the deaf and dumb , and their dissent on the two recommendations , which particularly disappointed and angered them , was admired widely . |
| 28 | Geoffrey Aquilina Ross , in How to Survive the Male Menopause , recommends a quick night-time routine for face and neck , which even tired and busy people can manage . |
| 29 | Delimitis erm Delimitis was the case of one which the commissions noticed was grounded erm , your Lordship of course has the right to seek information to the commission to seek erm information as to the status of the proceedings , whether the commission have any market reports which maybe useful and so on |
| 30 | Well if you have the footnote bible like I 've got here , you look down the bottom and speaks about those who are beggars , beggars for the spirit and just at the bottom of our road where we live er there 's a little area there which quite busy and er there 's a man who parades up and down there daily , he 's there nonstop every day of the week , you can go by there any time , any day and he 's there begging and he has no shame at all , and if you refuse him once he 'll catch you another day and he 'll ask you again , and you 'll see him there backwards and forwards and he 'll even when the traffic lights turn red |