Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself here and now — at my hotel window , the road below crowded with traffic , the fish market gone until tomorrow , the winter sun lighting the exercise book in which I 'm writing these events of nearly three years past — wanting to put down my pen , lean back and wonder at my arrogance , such stubborn obtuseness . |
| 2 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 3 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 4 | If he does become prime minister ( with the aforementioned majority ) , I will eat one copy of the edition of the New Statesman in which you are reading this article . ’ |
| 5 | When you are experiencing a certain kind of bite which you are finding difficult to hit , try to relate the bite with what you have seen the chub doing or ; your close season excursions , then decide from there what course of action would be best to hit the fish . |
| 6 | Sensual , sexy tale — a style for which she is becoming renowned . |
| 7 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 8 | Now another journey began , one of which she had no memory , no knowledge of the decision to start , but one which she was made powerless by love to turn from . |
| 9 | Educated at home , Alice early on showed evidence of the beauty , tact , and vivacity for which she was to become renowned . |
| 10 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 11 | Not only was the bedchamber in which she was confined dusty and cold , but her bedlinen and clothing were soiled and damp , her person unwashed , her hair uncombed . |
| 12 | Which one 's going blue ? |
| 13 | Estimating awareness no doubt raises its own problems , but at least it can be conducted in terms of the things of which one is made aware . |
| 14 | And a third for working capital , which we 're repaying short-term . |
| 15 | Just tape normal conversations which we 're doing that er now . |
| 16 | The experience of coming from the north-east of England is an important influence on my views on the issue with which we are dealing this morning . |
| 17 | In the field of intellectual work Rosenbrock has questioned the underlying assumptions of the manner in which we are developing computer-aided design systems . |
| 18 | The white paper that was published some months ago indicates I think , very clearly , the kind of commitments that we have and the way in which we are meeting those commitments . |
| 19 | This is not a dispute in which we are seeking more pay for solicitors . |
| 20 | I am conscious of the late payment problem , which is something to which we are devoting great attention . |
| 21 | We made special provision for the homelessness problem last year , and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for housing will be making a further announcement in the next day or two about the homeless figures for which we are making additional provision in the current year . |
| 22 | ‘ The very substantial funds which we are making available for Eastern Europe … are separate from and additional to our regular aid programme . ’ |
| 23 | Elsewhere in this issue you will read of the latest Economist survey of Britain 's survey of Britain 's Most Admired Companies in which we were placed third overall ; top in our business sector ; top in quality of management ; and second in our quality of marketing . |
| 24 | What we have dreams of , what we have hardly dared to hope , but towards which we were straining all our will and all our strength , was coming into being over there . " |
| 25 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 26 | But surely , I thought , on the third and final night , which we were to have all to ourselves … . |
| 27 | As ‘ sacrament ’ it stands for the sacrifice of the cross through which we were brought near to God . |
| 28 | Endometriosis is a condition in which there is functioning endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity . |
| 29 | What starts as a kind of confusion between the rules accepted for sculpture in the round and those for drawing , ends with the realisation of a new art-form , sculpture in high relief , with conventions of its own : figures given their full bodily roundness but grouped in two-dimensional compositions against a flat background to which they are attached or , in developed pedimental sculpture , from which they are carved separate as complete statues . |
| 30 | People did n't use to do that twenty thirty forty years ago so erm child sex abuse is very much on the agenda , both of professionals and also on the agenda of people suffering from sort of distress for which they are receiving professional help because um that 's one of the things which um I think more nowadays than before you find people encouraged to look for . |