Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella , moving ahead , saw , as Nuadu had not been able to see , that there were tiny cracks in the walls , from which the glowing heat threw out threads of fiery light and through which little angry hisses of steam continually escaped . |
| 2 | This consists of a round wooden hoop across which a parchment head is stretched and to which loosely fitting metal plates , like tiny cymbals , are attached . |
| 3 | The Romero regime ( 1977–9 ) responded to this growing militancy with the introduction of a Public Order Law which effectively banned strike action . |
| 4 | By the end of the century , however , trade unionism had been virtually eliminated from agriculture , following the determined resistance of farmers , who in 1874 had instituted a lock-out in East Anglia which effectively broke Arch 's union . |
| 5 | That 's also replicated on Top of the Pops , in which predominantly male DJs present the programme ; women presenters are there as enthusiastic bimbos . |
| 6 | English rhythm is a controversial subject on which widely differing views have been expressed . |
| 7 | Decide to ring doorbell of house opposite into which rather smart-looking couple , Marc and Elaine , have recently moved . |
| 8 | Shepard ( 1963 ) used a classification which basically divided coasts into those shaped primarily by non-marine agencies and those shaped mainly by marine processes . |
| 9 | so , so he , he makes quite a big point out of that , you know er that , and then he obviously talks about other things , the flour drum erm you know which basically vulgar performances of |
| 10 | Laverley House is a listed Georgian farmhouse built in 1820 with five acres of land with spectacular views towards the Mendip hills , and an attractive garden in which highly scented roses blossom in the summer . |
| 11 | In other words , both parties are to some extent ‘ locked into ’ a transaction to which highly specific assets have been assigned . |
| 12 | However , the agrarian reform followed a March 1959 Rent Law which greatly dismayed property owners by introducing statutory reductions of 50 per cent for the very poorest tenants ( those paying less than 100 pesos per month ) and 40–30 per cent decreases for those in higher income brackets . |
| 13 | The abiding impression was how little trouble they were , which greatly surprised Nigel . |
| 14 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 15 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 16 | What emerged , therefore , was the ‘ Medium-Term Financial Strategy ’ in which annually decreasing targets were set for monetary growth . |
| 17 | A sceptic wishing to challenge our belief in the existence of re-identifiable objective particulars in space and time , it is argued , can not present his case coherently , for his doubts would amount to a rejection of the whole conceptual scheme within which alone such doubts make sense " . |
| 18 | The intelligence , by which alone such subjects were supposed to be understood , was thought to be wholly distinct from other , lower , faculties . |
| 19 | While the basic nineteenth-century response to poverty was to try to strengthen older institutions , some of the consequences of urbanization and industrialization posed problems for which entirely new responses were necessary . |
| 20 | There were no major casualties on a day in which only four men broke par . |
| 21 | A few patients in surgical wards are found to have inoperable conditions or conditions for which only palliative surgery can be performed . |
| 22 | Clearly , the category of social services is obviously too wide on which to base investigation since some of its elements may well be things which only rich societies can afford . |
| 23 | One of the earliest military initiatives of the new state — the raising of an expeditionary force to suppress the Irish rebellion — was partly motivated both by security considerations and by the prospect of financial gain , but was also widely seen as a religious crusade ; this fact was clearly demonstrated in the autumn of 1649 , when Cromwell 's soldiers attacked the Catholic inhabitants of Drogheda and Wexford with a savagery which only religious conflict can engender . |
| 24 | While Miles and Gregory have still to decide whether to stay with Wigan for another season , the continuing dominance of a club which only 10 years ago was not considered to have one player good enough to start the series against Australia , is almost total . |
| 25 | It 's a scene in which only serious players will survive . |
| 26 | In this task subjects read a passage in which only one word ( Aaronson and Scarborough , 1976 ) , or a small group of words ( Mitchell and Green , 1978 ) , are presented at any one time . |
| 27 | They are cases in which only one type of disposition is involved , but it is then misdescribed as the other . |
| 28 | It seems that the Sultan was one of the first victims of non-standardization ; he paid a thousand dollars for a machine for which only one cylinder was ever made ! |
| 29 | The tailings lake now covered an area of 160 acres , of which only one acre had dried out at the time . |
| 30 | This became clear when , in an attempt to investigate further the nature of the personal pronoun constraint on the non-standard concord rule , all occurrences of they as subject in the speech of 12 speakers were collected ( N=310 ) , from which only one example was discovered of a singular verb : |