Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 2 | For some people this may be self-imposed ; for me , my work forms part of it — it is something which I enjoy and from which I get considerable satisfaction . |
| 3 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 4 | In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong . |
| 5 | Given that the conductor is Rudolf Barshai , this was a disc of which I had high expectations , and the musicians of the Vancouver SO play the score with an admirable combination of restraint and accuracy which provides , in the end , a rather more affecting experience than some of the more histrionic versions one could name . |
| 6 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 7 | He told the delegates that he was " tired of the impossible state of affairs in which I suffer bitter attacks from the outside … while I am also attacked by colleagues at home who sing the daily chorus of slander and besmirching " . |
| 8 | I folded it up and put it away in a small carved wooden box in which I kept other trinkets and treasures of no significance to anyone except myself . |
| 9 | As for the sounds themselves , there are many here which I considered serious omissions from the GR-50 . |
| 10 | They sent Respighi 's music , Pines of the Appian Way , marching through my head , to which I gave bass accompaniment with my hat . |
| 11 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 12 | We might find an account of what knowledge is which would suffice to undermine crucial sceptical moves , and hence confirm the possibility that some of our beliefs are justified ; the account to which I give tentative support in chapter 3 has pretensions in this direction . |
| 13 | But while Manuela was a mirror in which I glimpsed troubling facets of my own personality , hers presented no problems . |
| 14 | But the kind of criticism which I termed external critique is much less conditioned by the object under review and its conventional disciplinary home . |
| 15 | As her brother Earl Spencer , told me : ‘ She strikes me as an immensely Christian figure and she has the strength which I think true Christians have and the direction in her life which others can envy ; that sureness of her purpose and the strength of her character and position to do an enormous amount of good . |
| 16 | WWR would probably pass to another country for chairmanship but it is a move which I suspect British WW racers would be prepared to accept for the benefit of WWR as a whole . |
| 17 | Sicily is an example at the northern extreme , of which I have personal experience . |
| 18 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton is a member of the council of Justice — an organisation for which I have great respect and which operates under the presidency of Lord Alexander of Weedon . |
| 19 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 20 | My elder daughter has read ‘ Some Other Rainbow ’ in which you receive honourable mention and I hope to read it soon . |
| 21 | Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence . |
| 22 | These principles are expressed as follows : ( 13 ) The co-operative principle make your contribution such as is required , at the stage at which it occurs , by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged ( 14 ) The maxim of Quality try to make your contribution one that is true , specifically : ( i ) do not say what you believe to be false ( ii ) do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence ( 15 ) The maxim of Quantity ( i ) make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange ( ii ) do not make your contribution more informative than is required ( 16 ) The maxim of Relevance make your contributions relevant ( 17 ) The maxim of Manner be perspicuous , and specifically : ( i ) avoid obscurity ( ii ) avoid ambiguity ( iii ) be brief ( iv ) be orderly In short , these maxims specify what participants have to do in order to converse in a maximally efficient , rational , co-operative way : they should speak sincerely , relevantly and clearly , while providing sufficient information . |
| 23 | With reference to your letter of 20 July in which you request special leave following the death of your mother . |
| 24 | I refer to your letter sent to Mr Drewry in which you request special leave to attend your fiancé 's father 's funeral . |
| 25 | It would be extremely rash to add a pair of leleupi to a tank in which you have brichardi breeding . |
| 26 | You have certain losers in Clubs and a good plan in hands like these is to play out the suit in which you have certain losers and wait to see what the opposition do . |
| 27 | You will cross the Firth Viaduct from which you have fine views of the Pentland Hills . |
| 28 | It is a serious discipline in which you have infinite freedom , within the restrictions of geometry . |
| 29 | You select an area of the country in which you run different advertising from the advertising you run in the rest of the country . |
| 30 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |