Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 2 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 3 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 4 | They were also subject to the English Parliament , which put them on a different footing from the King 's Scots or Irish subjects , who had Parliaments of their own that were not subordinate to the Westminster Parliament in the way that the Virginia assembly was . |
| 5 | Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis . |
| 6 | Set the microphone so that it picks up that group and use the resulting recording to set tasks for trainees which focus them on the learner . |
| 7 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 8 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 9 | When we are too old to force our limbs up the crags and are ready to regale our grandchildren with tales of derring-do it will be the epics which have them on the edge of their seats . |
| 10 | Cos it i it should n't just be your preparation should not just be a one-off hour hour and a half what have you on the Sundays when you come along . |