Example sentences of "[Wh det] in [adj] [noun pl] [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ] .
7 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 .
8 This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry .
9 Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ?
10 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 .
11 Lying on the back seat , Adam recited ‘ Grantchester ’ , which in those days he knew by heart :
12 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 ’ .
13 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
14 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 .
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