Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say . |
| 32 | The photographs show you something of what you will see — underground roadways , coal-faces , haulage engines , and on the surface the blacksmiths ' shop , the baths , and exhibitions . |
| 33 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 34 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 35 | That is not something of which we can be certain . |
| 36 | This respect for Eliot and the desire to do something of which he would approve , was further manifested in the Maritains ' wish that I should visit Bergson . |
| 37 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 38 | Looking back , I can not deny that the grant of the licence was something of which he could legitimately complain , but his capacity for complaints exceeded any normal human being 's by a very large measure . |
| 39 | Although Darwin had guessed that the Galapagos birds originated from there , because the Galapagos were so young , it was not something of which he could be certain . |
| 40 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 41 | The disposal of industrial and often hazardous waste is another problem , but one with which we should be equally concerned and one which we can ultimately influence . |
| 42 | A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing . |
| 43 | I , for one , could n't make a 10in bowl in 45 minutes — at least , not one with which I would be satisfied . |
| 44 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 45 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 46 | There are peel-off labels for the long holiday dates , something with which you can amuse yourself on the next bank holiday . |
| 47 | Opening his own door , he thought how great , how truly fantastic it was that there should be something into which they need not yet rush . |
| 48 | It seems unlikely that the normal form is one into which we would choose to transform programs for execution , but our work gives hope that transformation into other , more useful forms might be tractable . |
| 49 | Only then will the public begin to realise that mental handicap is not a taboo subject , but something in which we can all be involved . |
| 50 | And I believe it is something in which we should all be involved . |
| 51 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 52 | The middle-class children 's toy is never intended for mere amusement or pleasure ; its prime interest is its educational value , the child must absorb the toy as a challenge , something from which it will learn in order to improve itself . |
| 53 | I 'm not making it just because observation comes before communication , although it does : since before an observable truth can be communicated , someone somewhere must get that true belief — or something from which it can be inferred — by observation . |
| 54 | This experience should be something from which you will both learn . |
| 55 | In any case , social prognosis is a notoriously unsafe activity , and it is one from which we might wisely refrain . |
| 56 | This crossing constitutes a complex , difficult history , one from which we can learn . |
| 57 | But the idea that social behaviour is oriented by and to the behaviour of others is one from which we can start . |
| 58 | Once you 're satisfied that your spur socket wo n't result in the circuit serving too large a floor area , and you 've identified the socket as one from which you can run a spur , all you have to do is install your new socket where it 's needed , run the spur cable back to the socket that will feed it , and connect it in to the socket terminals . |
| 59 | It is both a pretty and well-organized place in its own right and one from which you can drive profitably off in every direction , up a whole sheaf of good valleys and into some ravishing high country . |
| 60 | He envisaged a shift , in line with modern educational thinking , away from a system in which pupils are assessed in relation to each other ( a norm-referenced system ) to one in which they would be assessed in relation to certain pre-specified criteria ( a criterion-referenced system ) . |