Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 2 | In particular , they would oppose anything which smacked of the corporatist state . |
| 3 | At the end of the conference the participants decided to make a collective appeal to Boris Yeltsin which warns of the extreme seriousness of the situation and of the danger that government funding for Russia 's museums could die out . |
| 4 | This follows representations by the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association ( BHRCA ) which learnt of the proposed change in May . |
| 5 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 6 | There are innumerable passages in both the Jewish and Christian scriptures which speak of the ineffable greatness and holiness of God . |
| 7 | As a result , vadose compaction of unconsolidated grains took place , which consisted of the preferential leaching of grains at their points of contact until all intergranular porosity had been destroyed and a tight polygonal texture had been created ( Fig. 16c ; Clark 1980a ) . |
| 8 | In order to implement and oversee the project as a whole , a Project Coordinating Team was established which consisted of the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources , the Assistant County Librarian ; Education and Special Services ( formerly the Principal Assistant Librarian : Young People and Education ( PAL:YPE ) , the Senior County Inspector ( English ) , and the Tutor in Charge , County Language and Reading Centre , Essex Institute ( Brentwood ) . |
| 9 | The Girls were also included in the finale which consisted of the 150 music hall artistes presenting Variety 's Garden Party . |
| 10 | Sharma , backed by the Congress ( I ) , gained 64.78 per cent of the total votes of the electoral college ( which consisted of the elected members of both houses of parliament and the state legislatures ) , defeating his nearest rival , G. G. Swell , the BJP-National Front candidate who polled 33.21 per cent . |
| 11 | Richard Knolles , writing in 1603 , refers to the ‘ country songs ’ of the Serbs which tell of the alleged duplicity of the faithless George Branković who betrayed Christendom to the Turks . |
| 12 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 13 | The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them . |
| 14 | This work is accomplished by manually digitizing the field surveyors ' Master Survey Drawing ( MSD ) which consists of the current published map sheet plus amendments noted by the surveyors . |
| 15 | There is a page set aside for each day which consists of the following : your daily diet sheet some key facts a weight and symptom chart . |
| 16 | One of the products is helium-3 which consists of the two protons bound to a single neutron ; the spare neutron from the original gang of four particles speeds off . |
| 17 | The media item to be mounted on the media unit is shown at the bottom of the window by a six character volume identifier , which consists of the two character LIFESPAN process Id as specified in the configuration file , concatenated with the four digit item number previously entered by the Offline Manager using option 9.3.0 . |
| 18 | Sadly , this is true of Scotland , in spite of the undoubted benefits of the innovatory projects in co-operation sponsored by the Working Group on Library Co-operation , which consists of the eleven major research libraries in Scotland . |
| 19 | We opt to check out the Boogie rig , which consists of the 12 6L6-powered 400+ head at £1385 , accompanied by a cab containing 2x15s , at £745 . |
| 20 | In our next example , which consists of the last two bars of the Prelude in B ♭ minor from Book I of the ‘ 48 ’ a different layout will be seen . |
| 21 | By its very nature , the birth of twins became an event which partook of the mythic , which linked man with some of his oldest and most potent mythic images and ultimately with his gods . |
| 22 | Such a vision is as microscopic as Paul Scott 's is panoramic ; and a future historian , reading the Raj Quartet or J. G. Farrell 's Siege of Krishnapur ( 1973 ) , which tells of the Indian Mutiny , might easily make the mistake of supposing that the British are nostalgic for lost empire . |
| 23 | Bridge , on the other hand , was possessed of an urbanity of manner which proved of the greatest importance , especially in the firm 's dealings with George III and other members of the royal family . |
| 24 | Finally the position of the mouth of the river at all stages may not be known so that we may not be certain of which stretch of the former river we are dealing with . |
| 25 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 26 | You may well ask what became of the Zionist terrorists after the British left ? |
| 27 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 28 | For several months before the Ashleys moved in , the locals of Remaisnil speculated about what to expect of the new English châtelaine . |
| 29 | In Germany in 1939 , a British Gentile , let alone a Jew , knew what to expect of the Nazi authorities and got out if they could . |
| 30 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |