Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’
2 She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny .
3 Bhabha is critical of Fanon 's nonconformist humanism , especially its essentialist fantasies of the self and the yearning for total transformation which they partly enabled .
4 Fever for development struck again , this time on the basis of selling a plot of land behind the 17th tee for private use which it was estimated would yield of £1,500–£2,000 .
5 I think they could have kept that money for that purpose what they want now , not to throw it across there .
6 ‘ And I 'm going to sue Parson Marr for that hole what he left open . ’
7 He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind .
8 Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time .
9 Please be warned : they are capable of getting through that gap which you are in two minds about bothering to block .
10 We discussed the Authority 's INSET provision briefly in Report 1 , then in Report 6 we explored the style and initial impact of courses and the assumptions about professional development which they reflected .
11 The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say .
12 And erm Tampax were involved for another reason which I will explain later .
13 Two years ago completed a manuscript about his family 's life during this period which he hopes will someday be published .
14 Although it made him uneasy , he could not tell for some moments what it was .
15 The twenty fifth anniversary may be special but for some fans whatever they do the band just ca n't go wrong .
16 After calling for some ice-cubes which we popped into the straight Pernod , we drank them down , with predictably weird results ( we had already had Dexedrine ) .
17 Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) .
18 She could n't remember where she was , nor why , yet for some reason which she did n't understand , she felt they were safe here .
19 For some reason which she could not understand a feeling of desolation swept over her .
20 Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it .
21 He was the official gamekeeper and knew the job inside out but for some reason what he was doing did n't suit Sir Emmanuel and the air turned blue .
22 The Germans are said to have shot 100 French hostages in reprisal for this sinking which they thought was the work of the Resistance .
23 Are there any similar developments in the Programme of Work for this session which you can expect to see in the Catalogue for 1989/90 ?
24 Two competing strands of emphasis run through this passage which it is misleading of Kant to have entangled .
25 She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided .
26 In paragraph four , page six , we do make a small point about the financial implications er on of course that has been resolved because of er the resolution carried forward in the budget debate and a note there about central training which I could er just , just explain slowly because I have had a number of questions about this .
27 Respondents are asked to indicate the method of accounting for convertible debt which they consider should be required .
28 Others may prefer to continue the addictive process rather than accept the need for personal change which they may perceive to be more painful than continuing the addiction .
29 Management involves the accountability for role-related actions which it is the manager 's responsibility to produce and facilitate in others .
30 In his work on The State and Revolution , which develops an area in which Marx was somewhat vague , he displays a ruthlessness and a disregard for individual dissent which it would be difficult to match .
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