Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against both Yeovil and Scarborough we are prepared to accept a David and Goliath situation in which everyone is pulling for little David . ’ |
| 2 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 3 | We decided to buy twenty letter box stickers which I am to send for and give you the cheque to this end . |
| 4 | You just get a feeling that one actor is going to give you that certain something which you 're looking for . |
| 5 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 6 | Your branch recently contacted the Parish Council about a sealed item which you are holding for us . |
| 7 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
| 8 | Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er |
| 9 | That was in keeping with the respect in which she is held for her tireless work , especially on behalf of the world 's children . |
| 10 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 11 | The family has already asked for an investigation into her death by officials at Winterton psychiatric hospital , Sedgefield , from which she was discharged for weekend leave a day before she died on Sunday . |
| 12 | It was very difficult to find experienced people … in fields in which everything was destroyed for 50 successive years . " |
| 13 | Advice on ISDN2 , which we are considering for telephone system . |
| 14 | Erm elsewhere in my statement I have indicated an appropriate provision of employment land which is related to the population size which we are suggesting for the new settlement . |
| 15 | I should recommend waiting for a gentler age than that in which we are condemned for a while to dwell . |
| 16 | We have already seen how naturally the need to fit a certain number of half wavelengths into an interval leads to discreteness and it is some way of introducing a radical discreteness into mechanics which we are looking for . |
| 17 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 18 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 19 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 20 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 21 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 22 | Documents served by post are deemed to be served on the second business day after posting ; those delivered via a document exchange on the second business day after the day on which they were left for collection . |
| 23 | It appeared , on examining the offences involved , that Blacks had more ‘ indictable only ’ offences , and also more ‘ triable-either-way ’ offences for which they were committed for trial . |
| 24 | So although there is not as yet any definitive question , any definitive answer to this same question which was raised by Mr a couple of years ago , it is under consideration and we would hope that the sort of answer which he is hoping for might be forthcoming from that source . |
| 25 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 26 | I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee . |
| 27 | Air France gained many improvements to their airline training programme by allowing them to : significantly reduce the duration of the training cycle , reduce the time between hiring the pilot and the point at which he is qualified for jet operations by at least one year , reduce type conversion hours by at least 10% , and make an improvement in the selection of pilots by providing a better assessment of trainee ability for heavy or medium jet aircraft . |
| 28 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 29 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 30 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |