Example sentences of "[is] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | So it may be surprising to find how little there is which impinges on the realm of science . |
2 | A week later Elizabeth had departed , taking with her everything of Nahum 's which belonged in the family . |
3 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
4 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
5 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
6 | The feelings may be imagined of the pupil who rashly let fall a slighting reference to Sohrab and Rustum , to be answered by Lewis 's brandishing an old regimental sword of his brother 's which stood in the corner of his room and shouting , ‘ The sword must settle this ! ’ |
7 | then it 's what belongs in the trailer as to what belongs out |
8 | But that 's what lay behind the statement there . |
9 | But it 's what happens to the ones who succeed which raises serious questions . |
10 | It 's what lies at the root of Courtaulds — the manipulation of cellulose . |
11 | It 's not what they say , it 's what lies underneath the words it 's interesting . |
12 | And that er that 's what happened to the 's and they 're still about actually . |
13 | Oh maybe that 's what happened in the end , that must be her , yeah |
14 | That 's what cuts off the headlights , you see . |
15 | That 's what pulls in the sail and makes you faster . |
16 | Theme is the element placed by the speaker in first position in the clause ; rheme is whatever comes after the theme . |
17 | He had admitted some years before that his prose was that of a controversialist rather than a " thinker " and this is what emerges in The Idea of a Christian Society . |
18 | ‘ There is what remains of the intruders . ’ |
19 | This is what accounted for the enormous popularity of Julius Chongo 's Pocheza M'madzulo , especially in Lusaka and in Eastern province . |
20 | This condition/consequence relation between know and the infinitive is what calls for the use of to . |
21 | The coincidence between the two representations of person ( in passing , both are representations of the same extra-linguistic entity ) is what calls for the use of the bare infinitive . |
22 | And this is what happens to the podvig tic which obsesses the notebooks and the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter : it becomes deflected and surrealized into eruptive impenetrable little freaks . |
23 | One important issue we have not considered is what happens to the individual once he or she is labelled as criminal . |
24 | That is what happens in the big glass too , he wrote . |
25 | If this is what happens in the North now , how much worse then would things be in a united Ireland ? : |
26 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
27 | This is what happens in the O. Henry stories , for example . |
28 | The topic at the moment is what to do about the working poor , particularly those with children . |
29 | The most immediate is what to do about the coal industry in the face of weak demand , uneconomic pits and fundamental disagreements between , on the one hand , the miners ' union ( NUM ) together with much of the trade union movement , and on the other the National Coal Board ( NCB ) and the government . |
30 | The main problem here is what to do with the existential quantifier . |