Example sentences of "[Wh det] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mr. Howell 's argument is correct , the school , even though over-subscribed , could not have adopted these sibling and proximity criteria in deciding which of the applicants ' parental preferences were to succeed and which fail . |
| 2 | The magic castle that is London 's St Pancras Station rests upon a forest of unseen arches , forming a vault which in the railways ' heydays , from the 1870S to the 1920s , housed the thousands of barrels of beer that arrived daily from Burton-on-Trent . |
| 3 | What about the neighbours ' trees ? |
| 4 | What in the gods ' names ? |
| 5 | Neo-Malthusianism was further attacked in ways already discussed in Chapter 2 , but also drew what in the authors ' opinion was a misplaced and utopian analysis from the Marxist literature based solely on a critique of bourgeois ideology , without serious attention being given to the effects of rapid population growth in any social formation , transitional to socialism or towards any other social order . |