Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ulster majority was humiliated and alarmed , but its immediate emotions were channelled into a two-day general strike and Peaceful protest rallies , one of which attracted 100,000 people . |
| 2 | Then there are n stages , each of which generates one quotient bit and a new partial remainder . |
| 3 | Five experimental words were chosen ; four of which had four senses and the remaining word three . |
| 4 | I was running along the pavement of Rochdale Road , just after midnight , wearing , among other things , two quilted anoraks , one of which had fourteen pounds of sand sewn into the lining . |
| 5 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 6 | If you think about it , this is a naive question , since it would be possible ( in theory ) to construct a TV schedule to get 100 TVRs by using 100 spots which each achieved one TVR or by using four spots each of which achieved 25 TVRs . |
| 7 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |
| 8 | It was all a far cry from the first ascent of Everest 40 years ago , news of which took three days to reach London — on Coronation Day . |
| 9 | Newspapers frequently publish macabre photographs of people who have been cut , too late , from the innards of enormous snakes , some of which reach thirty feet long . |
| 10 | Bit mapped graphics : Certainly the most common , these derive their name from the fact that they are made up from individual dots or pixels , each of which represents one bit of computer memory . |
| 11 | Mr Hawkins , of Sutton Benger , near Chippenham , Wilts , declined to comment on the calls , some of which lasted 15 minutes , at a cost of 48p a minute . |
| 12 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
| 13 | Last year 's survey was carried out with a group of practitioners at an audit regulation meeting run by the Southern Society , and in view of the continuing concerns about regulation , we repeated this exercise with 160 practitioners who attended a similar meeting in October 1992. 64 responses were received , some of which represented one response from several representatives of the same firm . |
| 14 | At this point , having reached the end of the ‘ second sentence ’ , we can confirm that all the conventional classical music examined seems to be built in sentences , each of which comprises two phrases of the ‘ question and answer ’ type . |
| 15 | News of Mr Porras 's arrest followed the explosion of 13 bombs at the weekend , some of which damaged six schools in Bogota . |
| 16 | The USAF plans to organise its ground-launched cruise missiles into ‘ flights ’ , each of which carries 16 weapons . |
| 17 | every three-wheeled motor cycle , the unladen weight of which exceeds 255 kilograms and which was manufactured on or after March I , 1970 and first used on or after September 1 , 1970 . |
| 18 | The cat bit her , leaving two wounds in her hand , one of which needed two stitches , and then shot downstairs , disappearing through an open window . |
| 19 | It flooded across stream divides of the plateau , some of which stood 300–400 feet above today 's bounding valley bottoms . |
| 20 | Each disc consists of 40 tracks , each of which contains 18 sectors . |
| 21 | Serious eaters look at the red Michelin Benelux guide , which lists about 25 restaurants in the centre , a handful of which have one star . |
| 22 | There 's a choice of five different reels , four of which have three socket outlets which can be used simultaneously ( subject to power ratings ) , all designed with safety as a priority . |
| 23 | In 1936 the city was divided into three local government electoral wards , two of which elected eight councillors whilst the third ward elected four . |
| 24 | Although there are only 15 contractors , they have between them 50-odd transmitters , each of which needs two copies of the commercial ( at least ) , so allowing for your own copies and back-up stock , you will need 115 or so bulks for a national campaign . |
| 25 | Our experience of what happens one earth when very superior culture groups meet very inferior culture groups is rather alarming . |
| 26 | After it , says Hobbes , our thoughts should turn to what is , in effect , mechanics : ‘ the consideration of what effects one body moved worketh upon another . ’ |
| 27 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 28 | They can also be rated in kilowatts and on mopeds cos the regulation allow sort of what mopeds sixteen year olds can ride and I think it 's sort of something like seventy kilowatts or ninety kilowatts , it might be ninety . |
| 29 | He turned his head and walked towards a flight of shallow steps above which jutted two triangles of red granite . |
| 30 | Her husband John is still trying to come to terms with what happened three years ago . |