Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The series , in which she plays tough-talking Tessa , opposite millionaire boyfriend Adam Faith , has been a smash hit with viewers , attracting an audience of more than 10 million . |
2 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
3 | The requirements of each learner are different , and the ways in which she learns best also differ . |
4 | And Patricia also wants to see other women fighting back against which she calls this ‘ most horrible thing ’ . |
5 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
6 | Make sure that you measure a skirt belonging to the recipient , in which she feels happy . |
7 | Her obsession has taken the form of compulsive exercising : huge amounts of daily exercise , without which she feels panic-stricken and lost . |
8 | Breezing by on her bicycle which she rides all the time , she appears as a sort of escaped young refugee , from Poland or some Dickensian work camp . |
9 | She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang . |
10 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
11 | Among the many virtues of this work is the equal enthusiasm and knowledge which the author brings to more modest materials such as linen and wool , or the topic with which she closes early and obscure weaving and pleating techniques . |
12 | Elizabeth Blackadder shows a group of those charming still lives in which she gathers some of the objects to be found in her Edinburgh home and paints them as if they were in situ . |
13 | She makes the scenes in which she moves pornographic in the etymological sense of the word : prostitutes ' tales ( Greek /pornos = prostitute ) . |
14 | There is an opportunity to relate theory to practice , and as the teaching is set at the student 's level of understanding and experience , time can be spent on aspects which she finds difficult . |
15 | This would produce the heterogeneity which she believes feminist psychological theory needs . |
16 | Or PM zee , I suppose in America which she terms post-menopausal zest ! |
17 | Claire O'Brien ( Mrs Coghlin ) is imitating her children ( of which she has five ) by taking a year off . |
18 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
19 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
20 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
21 | At all times one is aware that the artist is also a composer — the conviction with which she untangles some of the more complicated , almost obscure pieces , has an unquestionable authority ( the enormous B flat minor Fugue from Book Two instantly comes to mind in this connection ) , whilst the famous pieces are often presented in a totally different manner — the A minor Prelude and Fugue ( Book One ) will surprise many as the Prelude is fearful and serious ( rather than light with the usual staccato touches ) , whilst the Fugue has clipped articulation at the end of each subject entry . |
22 | Parker 's own evolving perspective , stemming from both personal experience and a professional history which were forced together , no doubt contributes to the subtlety with which she untangles some of the issues . |
23 | The major underlying issues for Joanne and for the department in which she works concerned teaching methods and the distinction between content and process in mathematics . |
24 | Is n't it rather that , as Woodbridge implies , the transvestite seems to be a victim of false consciousness , and by switching gender roles rather than dissolving them reinforces the very sexual division which s/he finds oppressive ? |
25 | The visitor to an art museum without any such training or differentiated habitus uses the classifications with which he/she perceives every-day reality to perceive the work of art . |
26 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
27 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
28 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |
29 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
30 | Ollie 's final offering looks destined to be , typically , as an uncredited sideman on Ayers ' ‘ Still Life With Guitar ’ on which he contributes one electric solo on the opening track and some acoustic bits and pieces including a self-penned instrumental . |