Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we did n't arrive until nearly midnight , it was still an early call next morning for breakfast , after which came the tricky task of packing our saddle-bags . |
| 2 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 3 | More secure dating to 22–10/9 BC , between which dates the entire city was founded and built , has only recently been possible . |
| 4 | His ancestral village and its myths were three hundred years in the past , and the clear , blue waters of the bay were a sludge of industrial effluent through which thrashed the occasional blinded seabird . |
| 5 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 6 | They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples . |
| 7 | YOU CAN see the ninety feet high Victorian church spire of St Michael ( extreme right ) a mile away on a small hill , below which lies the unassuming village of Sutton . |
| 8 | Yanto brought the overloaded bike to a skidding halt just short of the sharply rising earth bank , the other side of which lay the muddy banks of the river . |
| 9 | Costs were also rising : costs of electricity , maintenance and crew wages ; all of which affected the new Marton cars adversely . |
| 10 | Each ganglion gives off two pairs of principal nerves , one of which supplies the general musculature of the segment and the other innervates the muscles of the legs . |
| 11 | When suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven , the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting . |
| 12 | In the case of four elements there are five ways of evaluating their product , all of which yield the same result ( copy the argument of exercise 1.2 . ) . |
| 13 | The SP1 runs AIX/6000 Version 3.2.3 on top of which sits the Parallel Operating Environment . |
| 14 | They dipped into rocky ravines , none of which contained the smallest stream . |
| 15 | All round the main building were wooden huts , and Hut 6 , to which I was posted , was a large one about sixty feet long , divided by plasterboard partitions into several rooms , all of which contained the simplest and most basic furniture . |
| 16 | stolen , one of which contained the last and only |
| 17 | But it was a neat chaos of boxes piled on each other , cakes still in the tins they came in and hatboxes , one of which contained the last remaining ball of her long-ago childhood . |
| 18 | Its ‘ classical ’ location is within large-scale bureaucratic organisations , the hierarchical structure of which enables the upward movement of individuals through an ordered succession of jobs . |
| 19 | All of which prompts the obvious question : how fundamental were these changes ? |
| 20 | What is persuasive in this case is a consistent series of answers given by the minister , after opportunities for taking advice from his officials , all of which point the same way and which were not withdrawn or varied prior to the enactment of the Bill . |
| 21 | Additions to the range followed rapidly , all of which follow the same formula of transverse engine layout and front wheel drive . |
| 22 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 23 | Each sentence was presented in conjunction with two pictures , one of which depicted the singular version of the sentence and one the plural . |
| 24 | They survived to be the essential links between the king and the local communities , out of which grew the special tradition of English government in the later Middle Ages , the principle of ‘ self-government at the king 's command ’ . |
| 25 | He also stressed that these goals were not those of the US alone , for " they had been endorsed by the UN Security Council five times in as many weeks " and were shared by numerous countries , many of which assisted the international military effort against Iraq . |
| 26 | The Institute for Fiscal Studies ( IFS ) has made a comparison of some different surveys of the extent of poverty , all of which use the same source , the Government 's Family Expenditure Survey , yet produce different results because of methodology . |
| 27 | There is a cherry-wood bathroom , the splendid Pink Bedroom , and the rooms where the Nethercotts ' three sons sleep and play — one of which sports the only Velux in the house . |
| 28 | The most complex of the risings was the Pilgrimage of Grace , the problems of which have been covered in two important papers , both of which stress the varying motives of the participants ( 68 ; 69 ) . |
| 29 | CD2 , LFA-3 and BCM1 form a subgroup of the IgSF ; the extracellular regions of these molecules are predicted to consist of two IgSF domains , the first of which lacks the canonical disulphide bond . |
| 30 | However , there were other reasons such as ‘ lost documentation ’ and small balances written off , all of which comprised the annual figure , the disclosure of which might result in too much attention being given to his department . |