Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They talked very little about what went on down there among the trees . |
| 2 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 3 | We sat like that for what seemed like hours until we could not cry any longer . |
| 4 | Rather , it was the product of near-collapse in the state supply and distribution system , of technical breakdown , and of storage , transport and labour problems which meant that up to half of what had in fact been a bumper harvest in 1990 had been allowed to rot . |
| 5 | Out of what 's left a bit more than half of what 's left goes on sweets and a bit less than half goes on stationery . |
| 6 | I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence . |
| 7 | Louthesk and Ludburgh wapentakes formed a rather poor district ; even the most affluent resident , who was taxed on £60 a year and whose family estates were worth double , owned personal estate of only £43 , more than half of which comprised a none-too-prosperous farm ; whether he was unlucky or incompetent , no one outside the thriving little market town Louth was doing much better . |
| 8 | From 1841 to 1911 the national increase was twenty million , over half of which took place in the metropolitan counties . |
| 9 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 10 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 11 | Young people from 18 to 28 spend three months living and working with local communities in Tanzania at a cost of £2,250 , half of which goes towards project support . |
| 12 | Wilson ( Alliance ) was elected with a surplus at Stage IX after the transfer of Agnew 's ( UPNI ) votes nearly half of which went to him . |
| 13 | There is , indeed , a divine magnitude to this demi-continent of nearly four million square miles , almost half of which constitutes the backbone of the country — the famous Canadian Shield , a range of ancient rocklands ( the world 's oldest ) which arcs from Labrador in the east , through Quebec far into southern Ontario , thence piercing north for 2000 miles into the Arctic itself . |
| 14 | The predominant unit of production in rural Cuba is the state farm , although there exists , despite the nationalisation of privately owned businesses in the 1960s , a distinct private sector in the countryside , half of which lies in Oriente province the home of the peasants who supported Castro in his bid for power . |
| 15 | Theirs was also the only three-wheeler in the Monte Carlo Challenge , run over the traditional route , and their 1933 Morgan completed the gruelling 2,000-mile distance to finish 82nd out of 100 cars , half of which travelled from starting points in Berlin and Oslo . |
| 16 | Any system that costs the British taxpayer more than £2.5 billion , only half of which reaches farmers , is an absurdity and must be abolished . |
| 17 | The whole operation has cost about £60 million , around half of which has come directly from central government . |
| 18 | Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis . |
| 19 | The National Gallery has received 150 restitution claims to date , half of which have been satisfied , the rest deferred following negotiations , by keeping the item on long-term loan . |
| 20 | On the northern edge of Aegina town , near the sea , Philip Dragoumis takes in 2,000 damaged creatures a year , mostly birds , half of which have been illegally shot . |
| 21 | I was using a figure of 1.5 million homes , but his figure is 1.9 million , half of which have gone from the council sector and the other half from the Government 's much-loved private rented sector . |
| 22 | A total of 2,640 dykes were examined , half of which have become floristically impoverished within the last 17 years . |
| 23 | Within the space of just three years , he submitted approximately 15 proposals , more than half of which found champions or sponsors , with projected value in the millions of dollars . |
| 24 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 25 | Having seen some of what went on with secondary picketing in the 1970s , I regard it as the unacceptable face of socialism . |
| 26 | One can guess some of what happened . |
| 27 | One need not mechanically check a large number of triangles to see that some of what holds of one will hold of all . |
| 28 | He feels some of what has been written about Julie tarnishes her image . |
| 29 | Instead , I shall draw on some of what has evolved over the last half century as ‘ curriculum theory ’ in education to try to suggest some frameworks and perspectives for analysing the wealth of detail which the system displays . |
| 30 | William Beveridge showed more appreciation of the problems posed by the burden of women 's household tasks when he stated that the ‘ housewife 's job , with a large family is frankly impossible and will remain so unless some of what has now to be done separately in every home can be done economically outside the home ’ ( although he never failed to assume that the final responsibility for domestic work rested with women ) . |