Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty-five people were honoured of whom six had each given over 50 years ' service to the church . |
| 2 | And who better to promote such knock-down prices than boxing champion , Chris Eubank . |
| 3 | In the preface to this saga you will have tasted the full flavour of the Ju88 attack from the account by Bob Pointer — my mid-upper gunner — and who better to describe that horrendous shock of the cannon squirt . |
| 4 | Who better to achieve this for you than one of the oldest and most respected savings companies in Britain … with a proud record of profitable bonus payments to savers for every year since 1824 ! |
| 5 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 6 | Bacon is intended to find ’ laws ’ of nature from the sort of quantitative experimental data which were available to the people who first discovered these laws . |
| 7 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 8 | I told the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) , who first raised this matter , that he should draw it to the attention of the Serjeant at Arms , when appropriate action would be taken . |
| 9 | It was Gauss who first disclosed this power in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae . |
| 10 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 11 | Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack , who first met several years ago on a training ship . |
| 12 | Those who first heard this story would have understood well enough that if the rebel leaders were to be punished , then the other members of their families might have to suffer with them . |
| 13 | No one knows who first made this ingenious invention , although as already indicated it was probably towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 14 | And yet he is the man who first made this needless quarrel , and now inflames it even when Glendower is disposed to be reasonable . |
| 15 | It is often called Ramsey pricing , after Frank Ramsey who first flamed this ( or , rather , a similar ) problem in 1928 . |
| 16 | Presumably many of those who first examined this Daguerreotype were familiar with Whitehall and this row of shops and could read more with a naked eye . |
| 17 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | We remember who first performed that deed or developed this technique . |
| 19 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 20 | I think it was Kevin Clifford who first pushed another carp development , the flavouring of baits , for bream . |
| 21 | The doctor who last saw this said , It 's somewhat of a museum piece . |
| 22 | An' 'ow much ? 'Oo d'yer owe this money to , anyway ? ’ |
| 23 | One College and one Polytechnic offered this with five staff , of whom four had this as their main concern . |