Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time .
2 To command the army , Saddam would rely on his own family and clans whom he had traditionally promoted .
3 yeah , well yeah I mean one of the blokes I he said just over a pair of
4 For the next thirty-five years he published a spate of pamphlets and books on the subjects about which he felt strongly and the authors whom he admired deeply or disagreed with emphatically .
5 The Reverend Peter Green warned in How to Deal with Lads ( 1911 ) of how ‘ the club is rushed by a swarm of rough lads whom you do n't know and over whom it is impossible to exercise any control ’ .
6 Say the distance between two species is the number of characteristics which they do n't have in common .
7 When the line-up was finalised with Charman in the spring of 1985 , they already had a set of six songs which they rehearsed repeatedly .
8 It was also a revelation to see the wildlife — birds and animals which I had only seen in Zoos were free for me to enjoy .
9 Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood .
10 The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’
11 There was some shrapnel in one of his legs which they had never been able to get out .
12 He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink .
13 On his left was a small , plump girl with round brown eyes which she blinked rapidly , as if smoke from the fire made them smart .
14 On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history .
15 Shortly before this stage — around the tenth year but with a wide variability — the hypothalamus , a small area at the base of the brain , somehow " triggers " a small gland just below it ( the pituitary gland ) into producing two hormones which it has not previously produced .
16 ‘ The images which I like best are the ones which other people like — which have the best response .
17 The shops which they visit most frequently are likely to be within about a mile of their home .
18 That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be .
19 On the questionnaire , we exhaustively listed the kinds of changes that had occurred in the case study schools and in the schools which we had earlier visited , and asked teachers whether any of these had occurred in their school .
20 In theory , the Ministry of Education welcomed schools which it did not have to pay for and in which the instructors — student volunteers — confined themselves to teaching adult illiterates how to read and write .
21 I 'm sure that 's why so many people compromise and end up in relationships which they do n't really want to be in .
22 Through partial participation in the events and networks of relationships which he observes all around him , he tries to understand how it feels to be a member of the society in question .
23 Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women .
24 But just to consider one or two aspects which we mentioned earlier on as being important to us .
25 The status of women has several aspects which themselves do not go simple together .
26 After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’
27 He then referred to a passage from the judgment of Nolan J. in Anderton v. Lythgoe [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 222 , 228 , including the words which I have earlier cited .
28 In preparing this report they must carry out such investigations as will enable them to form an opinion on ( a ) whether proper accounting records have been kept by the company and whether proper returns adequate for their audit have been received from branches which they have not visited and ( b ) whether the company 's individual accounts are in agreement with the accounting records and returns .
29 We feel that this is too high , but past experience has shown that undergraduates will only apply themselves to subjects which they perceive as relevant to their future careers .
30 I mean when I wrote this book of bible poems in fact it took me a very long time and I started all sorts of subjects which I did n't finish , so , no , you have to be obedient to whether the poem intends to get written or not .
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