Example sentences of "[Wh det] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its text survives in a Fulda manuscript of c .820–30 , and Fulda was a monastery founded by St Boniface as a convenient centre from which to preach to several Germanic peoples including the Saxons . |
| 2 | His claim gave him a useful propaganda weapon , some bargaining power in negotiations , and a basis on which to appeal to discontented French vassals ; it was also a convenient argument with which to counter Philip 's confiscation of Aquitaine . |
| 3 | All of the documents and reports to which I have referred in this chapter serve to throw light upon the contemporary primary school and to provide material upon which to speculate about future developments . |
| 4 | It is sometimes argued that a full-blooded commitment to phenomenological principles entails a retreat into relativism in which the researcher is denied any grounds upon which to choose between alternative accounts of the same situation . |
| 5 | Penelope hardly knew which to choose after this , but decided on brandy ; she had a vague idea that for women port was a rather low-class drink , since they did not — perhaps could not — appreciate it in the rather ritualistic way that men did . |
| 6 | They had three centuries of expertise in oral disinformation on which to draw in these situations . |
| 7 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 8 | Since choreographers discarded the conventions which kept ‘ ballet dancing ’ in a straight jacket ( after Fokine taught that it was ‘ the whole body that dances ’ , not merely the legs ) , the classical vocabulary has provided ideal material on which to build for those who understand its technique . |
| 9 | At the end of the first week you will have a solid foundation on which to build in future weeks . |
| 10 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 11 | That at the very least gives me the opportunity er to at very least glance through , I do n't know how long they 're going to be of course , but at very least glance through them to see what I need to see , to see if there 's any which is self-evidently requiring further comment , or further site visit , and er I can then give the Councils a further two weeks in which to respond to that . |
| 12 | Furthermore most workers are understretched for much of their working lives and have spare capacity on which to call at later ages . |
| 13 | To pick once again examples relevant to awareness , philosophers have often argued on the assumption that since an observer can not be mistaken about what he sees or hears ( although he may mistakenly suppose that he has seen or heard it ) , or a thinker about what he knows , there must be infallible operations by which to arrive at this certainty . |
| 14 | Of course , if one envisages the nationalisation of all the major enterprises ( ‘ top monopolies ’ ) , then the problem becomes internalised within the ‘ public sector ’ , but two points here : first , the present discussion is predicated on the hypothesis that there is a fruitful ideological space within which to argue for socialist investment planning — it does not depend on the ( counterfactual ) proposition that there is wide popular support for sweeping nationalisation of enterprises . |
| 15 | Fredric Jameson , in his article ‘ Postmodernism and the video-text ’ , comments that experimental video may , provide a useful vantage point from which to think about commercial television : |
| 16 | Three hours in which to think of all that he had missed . |
| 17 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 18 | By this time , however , she 'd had three weeks in which to move from bitter , aching despair , to bitter , aching fury . |
| 19 | They will probably have two eyes , two hands , two legs with which to move in one direction at a time . |
| 20 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the Americans could draw up contingency plans on the assumption that there would be air bases in Egypt from which to strike against southern Russia . |
| 22 | For , trying to analyse why she should want to see him again so badly , she realised that the only thing she could be positive of was that her wanting to see him again had nothing whatsoever to do with that infernal interview ! |
| 23 | But at its best , sex brings about true peace with both the self and the other person — and this has nothing whatsoever to do with personal prowess , physical acrobatics or multiple orgasms . |
| 24 | Just believe me when I say that I had nothing whatsoever to do with any of this . |
| 25 | ‘ That has nothing whatsoever to do with any of this ! ’ |
| 26 | Some seconds later she was discounting that he had anything whatsoever to do with any of her peculiar thoughts and emotions . |
| 27 | Merton , the lightning-quick deadpan potato-head who would always claim someone in the crowd shouted ‘ porn ’ as a suggested film style and then would do 25 jokes in as many seconds which had nothing whatsoever to do with sweaty shagging . |
| 28 | ‘ My staff have nothing whatsoever to do with this , Dr. Briant ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I check the bookings to get a general idea of what to plan for weekly activities . |
| 30 | Norms of dress provide guidelines for what to wear on particular occasions . |