Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I own a 1979 Series III SWB 2¼ diesel , which I use to commute 75–80 miles daily to work and back . |
| 2 | Subsequently , I have had the advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Slynn of Hadley , in which he concludes that the decision is indeed reviewable and does so on grounds which I venture to find convincing . |
| 3 | I happen to be embarking on a motoring trip during the course of which I hope to see many splendid views . |
| 4 | ‘ There is one key area in which I hope to have some success over the next year and that is in bringing the clubs and the union closer together ’ . |
| 5 | Mum asked me to ice his birthday cake while they were out and decorate it with chocolate leaves which I had to make first . |
| 6 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 7 | I am 15 and will shortly be taking a Grade 5 speech and drama exam , in which I intend to read one of the two poems . |
| 8 | I therefore proposed an account of law , ‘ normative positivism ’ , which I take to synthesize salient features of positivism and natural law thinking and which seems to me wholly to fit the nature of criminal law . |
| 9 | Why I did n't try to do more than this for so many months is an important question which I need to make some attempt to answer . |
| 10 | Denmark , which I visited to explore this very subject , uses this process . |
| 11 | I am experiencing problems with a green filamentous algae ( some of the filaments are 2–3″ in length ) which I have to remove each week when I do a 10% water change . |
| 12 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 13 | This all adds up , not only to a valuable historical reference which nobody intending to perform this music could afford to ignore , but , in spite of its manifest shortcomings , to something which still stands head and shoulders above any of the other recordings in the current catalogue of this much missed composer . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Pose the key questions or ideas which you perceive to underpin this topic of study . |
| 15 | You can revolt against it by a breakdown in health or morale , going what the Americans call stir-crazy' ; or you can accept it calmly , as just a temporary ‘ pause ’ in your normal way of life from which you intend to extract some good for yourself and others , keeping active , keeping your eyes on the world beyond the bars , and planning and preparing yourself for your ultimate return to it . |
| 16 | There was a carpet into which you seemed to sink several inches , an ornate desk in the style of the French Empire , a huge couch , upholstered in grey and scarlet , and a number of big soft armchairs in the same pattern . |
| 17 | You may not have behaved too badly under the circumstances ( though we all have a limit to the length of our inner fuse ) ; but how much of the conflict was contributed by the part of you over which you seem to have less control , the fire down below , the lesser-disciplined arena of your own strong inner responses ? |
| 18 | This kids ' book has an electronic strip down the side which you touch to get 10 different sounds that go with the story . |
| 19 | Although there have been periods of economic stagnation or crisis , including the exceptionally severe crisis of the 1930s ( which itself failed to engender large-scale revolutionary movements in most of the capitalist countries ) , and a renewed depression in the 1980s , the general tendency of capitalism has been to promote a continuous , and sometimes rapid , improvement in material standards of living , in which a large part of the working class , if not the whole class , has shared . |
| 20 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 21 | But her abiding passions were medieval history and archaeology which she continued to study all her life . |
| 22 | ’ Dismissing him with a gesture , she began walking towards the door which she meant to bang closed behind him . |
| 23 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 24 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 25 | Weatherhead was honest enough to realise that there are many aspects of religion about which one has to remain uncertain , that is , agnostic . |
| 26 | In attempting to do this , the intermediate step by which we attempt to develop certain guidelines is crucial . |
| 27 | In general , we will examine problems having p linear objective functions , , which we wish to maximise subject to linear constraints . |
| 28 | One of the most exciting events towards the year end was the transfer of the Geotech site investigation team at Uphall to Environmental , giving us not only a stronger resource in geology and land assessment , but also a well established presence in Scotland from which we hope to offer all our other services in future . |
| 29 | I remember that we did n't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden . |
| 30 | In Chapter 3 we identified ten ‘ generic activities ’ which we found to underpin primary classroom practice regardless of the subject labels used by the teacher , and argued that these activities therefore constitute at least as important a curriculum reality — certainly for children — as terms like ‘ topic ’ or even ‘ language ’ . |