Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there is no third kind is crucial for the denial that Reason has the sort of task which Newton assigned it in detecting the underlying order of things . |
| 2 | Bobby Hunt never forgot the agitation with which Minton told him how , on visiting the house of a friend whose wife had recently shot herself , his eye fell on a piece of skull left unnoticed under the piano . |
| 3 | Ricky was not long out of the navy , training as a body builder , doing carpentry , and also working on the door at clubs , as he was saving for a motor bike which Minton helped him to buy . |
| 4 | Elsewhere in the interview Derrida invokes his key word ‘ play ’ in much the same sense in which Arnold employed it in the ‘ free play of mind ’ . |
| 5 | One might define the lines which form the cube 's sides as the shortest distances between pairs of points ; but this would not express their motive cause which Hobbes conceives them to have . |
| 6 | He clumsily lights a cigarette which Lucker presents him . |
| 7 | We may not really know the frequency with which Rousseau heard it , but well before the Revolution it was heard only in extremis . |
| 8 | We made better progress in the canoe , which Ian lent us . |
| 9 | Hours of hard work on a dyno have produced extra horsepower , which Ian says he ca n't wait to unleash on the British Clubmans ' Championship . |
| 10 | Such thoughts were poor stimulus for a conscience-stricken appetite , and although the restaurant which Ven took her to was smart , and the food good , Fabia was able to eat only little . |
| 11 | Coloured rugs covered most of the ancient dusty floor and the walls were of bare brick , but hung with decorations constructed from skulls , feathers and tapestry , which Apanage announced she had contrived herself . |
| 12 | He struggled into his overcoat which Antony brought him from the hall . |
| 13 | Through which Eos shows her brightening eye . |
| 14 | Laker was a highly charismatic individual ; a self-made man who had built his airplane business on a visionary self-determination and zeal , a refusal to take no for an answer — all qualities which Branson fancied he could sympathise with . |
| 15 | The other was to try Europe , which Nicholson decided he would do . |
| 16 | Although it contains much information that is very valuable for academic research on a wide variety of topics ( the family , poverty , the elderly , housing conditions and so on ) in the form in which OPCS release it , the data are not easy for university researchers to use . |
| 17 | I think that animal forms could be almost infinitely varied and the actual forms you see are the forms which Darwin led us to see , namely the forms which are adapted to particular and specific ways of life . |
| 18 | It may even be possible to convert old non-parallel Fortran programs with the help of the Forge 90 tool from Placerville , California-based Applied Parallel Research Inc , which IBM says it is also supporting . |
| 19 | It is in this sense that Derrida argues that Husserl 's Origin of Geometry sets up ‘ the possibility of history as the possibility of language ’ whereby ‘ difference would be transcendental ’ : writing , in the general significance which Derrida gives it of a differential marking , must be the condition of any historicity . |
| 20 | Initially , in November , which is three months after Stavrogin was quoting Hamlet , Kirillov 's ‘ ROLE IS A FACTUAL ONE ’ — by which Dostoevsky means he ‘ volunteered to shoot himself for the common cause ’ and leave a letter claiming responsibility for Shatov 's murder , thus diverting the attention of the police from Peter Verkhovensky and the quintet . |
| 21 | Customer goodwill which Fred reckons he has built up . |
| 22 | He pocketed the envelope which Fred gave him . |
| 23 | I think that this is one of the moral lessons which Dickens wants us to learn about from the tale . |
| 24 | The Bishop said grace in a Latin form which Julia thought she recognised from Trinity High Table . |
| 25 | He stood , in Tolkien 's view , for all that was good in the Dark Ages — for the heroic awareness of heroic fallibility which Tolkien thought he could detect in Beowulf and in Maldon , for the spark of virtue which had made Anglo-Saxon England ripe for conversion ( a process carried out without a single martyrdom ) . |
| 26 | Peter Watts , currently the president of Tangent , will head up the new venture , which will use ISDN technology , allowing for electronic software distribution and simultaneous voice , data and image computer conferencing , all areas on which Unilinx has it long range sights . |
| 27 | If there are criticisms then I accept them with the same magnanimity which Martin claims I do not possess . |
| 28 | Small amounts of heroin , which Kedie said he had been given by a friend , were also found . |
| 29 | But he had n't heard of There 's another thing which Amanda suggested I try . |
| 30 | There was another small silence which Clarissa found she could not be the first to break . |