Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Good God knows I would dismiss the matter as fanciful and accept that the Scottish King died of an accidental fall from his horse except for what I found , those little shreds clinging to a thorn bush on Kinghorn Ness crying out ‘ Murder ’ to the world . |
| 2 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |
| 3 | As we will see , hesitations are an important subject of study because of what they can reveal about the mechanisms being employed when people produce spoken language . |
| 4 | Get rid of Norman for a start ; you ca n't have a chancellor who goes round telling the voters ‘ Je ne regrette rien ’ , when lots of them have lost their jobs and their homes because of what he does n't regret . |
| 5 | On the other hand , it may change financial reporting practice because of what it represents in the continuing controversies about professional self-regulation . |
| 6 | So if you 're going to that have a clear picture in your own mind as to what you want . |
| 7 | Then , as to the doubtful ‘ shell ’ of the question , if you still have time to write on the question , you should expressly point out the doubt in your mind as to what you are being asked , and proceed to write on the doubtful part of the question for the rest of the allotted time . |
| 8 | It is administration , rather than deciding issues or resolving disputes , even though the certifier often has to accept or reject claims by the contractor as to what he should certify for payment . |
| 9 | The inability to enter into an understanding with them is due to our limitations , our lack of perception as to what we are and what this ‘ world ’ really is . |
| 10 | To make sure that we 're able to put our point across clearly so that we speak in a clear way so that people do n't have any er doubts as to what you actually mean . |
| 11 | Previous to my arrival in Sydney , I was at a stage of uncertainty as to what I did and did not believe . |
| 12 | However , it will not provide the bumper take-out price implied by the recent performance of the Jaguar share price , offering instead some guidance as to what it might be in the future . |
| 13 | TI says it has switched to a 0.7-micron process from 0.8 , and will be analysing product from every angle before it makes any declarations as to what it 's really getting . |
| 14 | For a moment she could only stare at him , completely at a loss as to what he meant . |
| 15 | She did n't seem interested ; she had been ill while he was away , and spent most of the day in her chair , listening to the radio , more involved with the programmes than in what he was doing . |
| 16 | I 'm more moved by literature than by what it describes ! |
| 17 | It sometimes seemed that the Government was less interested in broadcasting from the point of view of fulfilling the three aims mentioned in the plan than in what it could and should do to publicize its own policies and activities . |
| 18 | THE sister of missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh told last night how she survived a knife ordeal because of what she had learned from the family 's nightmare . |
| 19 | Grandad never went near a pub because of what he said they put in the beer . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've seen entire worlds in ruins because of what you did , ’ he said . |
| 21 | So it 's really your attitude as to what you make of it . |
| 22 | When you use this you are editing the event as you record it so you need to have a clear plan as to what you want to record and what you do n't . |
| 23 | Where the defendant claims that as a result of intoxication , he did not realise that his conduct was or might be regarded as threatening , abusive or insulting , the magistrates must make a determination as to what they considered that the defendant would have realised had he been sober , and the conclusion that he would have realised will be virtually inevitable . |
| 24 | But the word earendel is strange , not ordinary Old English , and evidently pre-dating its context ; Tolkien was caught by a difference of texture , prompting his own verses on ‘ The Voyage of Earendel ’ , in 1914 , and the reply to G. B. Smith 's question as to what they were about , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 25 | So the conjunction of these two words effectively prevents the raising of the question as to what it was that they were saying . |
| 26 | However , given the choice , if that is a choice , there is no question as to which I would rather be . |
| 27 | The houses and cottages are of brick or half-timbered , and it has more of a feel of the Midlands than of what we imagine as Gloucestershire . |
| 28 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 29 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 30 | But , he was well informed on the matter and admitted that he and others were worried about their own safety because of what they knew . |