Example sentences of "[Wh det] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet was it a fact , was it the truth , or was it merely a psychological speculation which in certain moods he found it interesting to contemplate ? |
| 2 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 3 | But both found themselves possessed of a consuming interest in astronomy , to which in due course they devoted the rest of their lives after disposing of other distractions — in Hubble 's case , his law , and national service in two world wars . |
| 4 | Only his politics are bad , about which in due course I did ‘ warn ’ . |
| 5 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 6 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 7 | Because this information is not widely enough known , many individuals or families are not claiming help to which they are entitled and for which in many cases they have actually paid through their national insurance contributions . |
| 8 | Thus large companies and boards of nationalised industries were provided with enormous financial assistance enabling ( or rather persuading ) them to base their reorganisation on designated development areas which in many cases they would not otherwise have chosen , for reasons of both private and public benefit when judged over the longer run [ Knight , 1974 ; Moore and Rhodes , 1973 ] . |
| 9 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |
| 10 | This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry . |
| 11 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 12 | Russell was taken up in this for a time , he even wrote wonderful piece on the foundations of geometry couched in erm a sort of vaguely dialectical form , which in later life he erm pronounced as being complete rubbish . |
| 13 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 14 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 15 | Lying on the back seat , Adam recited ‘ Grantchester ’ , which in those days he knew by heart : |
| 16 | With opinion polls showing Labour ahead of the Conservatives , many health service managers are biding their time , not prepared to press forward rapidly with changes which could soon be reversed and which in any case they are reluctant to endorse . |
| 17 | While Ismail Belig may have some evidence for this view , evidence which in any case he does not mention , it is worth pointing out that by the time he was writing , the combination of such important posts would have been highly unusual , if not unknown , whereas in the early days of the Ottoman state it was not uncommon . |
| 18 | He also criticised the decision of the Court of Appeal in the South Hetton Coal Co. case [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , by which we are bound , and with which in any event I agree . |
| 19 | Further comment relating to the method included the ‘ … spotty , speckled effect — which in some ways I find not particularly satisfactory … a little difficult to enjoy ’ , and the paint which is sometimes ‘ dragged on ’ but also often ‘ dragged and spread in such a way that there 's some sort of movement ’ . |
| 20 | When I go I usually pay er to go round the back er which in some circuses you can do and only two weeks ago |
| 21 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 22 | At the words ‘ Porto de ’ ciechi e miseri mortali' in the madrigal ‘ O morte , eterno fin ’ Rore writes what in modern terminology we should call a succession of C major , A major , B minor , G major , C major , and G minor chords . |
| 23 | For Jean Henderson , who entered the trade in the 1890s , it was perhaps , her daughter thinks , the orphanage with its " feminist " matron that urged her to take up what in later life she felt to be an intellectual calling . |
| 24 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |