Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman , even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen , each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father . |
2 | As the Bristol teams , and others who may build on their examples , move forward in their research and their care for families , we can begin to look forward to a time when the tragedy of loss and anguish faced by famous people like Anne Diamond and Julie Walters , and thousands of other ordinary everyday people , may become a thing of the past . |
3 | The reasons for delay differ in civil and criminal procedure , not least because in civil matters the conduct of the action lies in the hands of the parties , who may agree through their lawyers to delays in proceedings . |
4 | For mentally ill people local care may be undesirable if they wish to be treated by anonymous carers rather than people who may live in their own locality . |
5 | The requirement of knowledge in paragraph ( c ) is clearly of ‘ actual ’ rather than of constructive knowledge , though a person who ought to know of his animal 's vicious characteristics may , of course , still be liable for negligence . |
6 | We 've got 15 players who must perform at their best if we 're to win . |
7 | This generalisation is more applicable to chief executives who must look outside their organisation than to those managers whose job is wholly an internal one . |
8 | Is it normal that I am the only Belgian citizen who must act against his conscience in such important matters ? |
9 | Banks and buildings societies are perfectly within their rights to choose who should benefit from their special offers . |
10 | I do n't see how they can tell us who should stay in our house . |
11 | Yes , or big bank or something , who 'll invests in our something like that . |
12 | Alternatively either colleagues or neighbour could perhaps ring a relative or friend who might move into your home and take care of things while you are in hospital . |
13 | No doubt there are modern adepts who might scoff at our amateur efforts , but that 's just what we were , amateurs struggling in a land for the E6 leader or the A3 and A4 aider , without being able to do either . |
14 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
15 | And , as Mark himself said , when asked whether he had any words of advice for those who might follow in his footsteps , ‘ I would tell them that it 's worth it if the alternative is that they die . ’ |
16 | Will the right hon. Gentleman take on board the idea of giving the Prime Minister a mentor who could sit by his side for these last two days to help him out ? |
17 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
18 | We also need to foster links with the many special interest groups within the horticultural and botanical communities who could benefit from our specialist knowledge and experience , and from the facilities we are able to offer them . |
19 | Such polarities were evidently valuable aids to several generations of Wölflinn 's pupils who could benefit from his personal teaching as well as the rather more rigid theory in his books . |
20 | Living alone , although a very real care problem for many dementia sufferers because of the need some of them have for continual safeguarding , might not in itself be a problem for all if they had sons or ( more realistically ) daughters living nearby who could help with their care . |
21 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |
22 | ‘ I was beginning to think you were truly immune — I actually thought the man had n't been born who could get under your skin . |
23 | As the afternoon progressed it was apparent that any amateur who could play to his handicap in these conditions was going to do very well . |
24 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
25 | There were a small minority of property-holders who could retire on their revenues , at a time of their choosing . |
26 | His fingers were sweaty , his touch proprietorial , and all at once she wrenched free and turned to the man who 'd come to her assistance . |
27 | Linda said perhaps he was a hungry burglar who 'd come after their mum 's apple pie and fruit cake . |
28 | There has also been a change in the holiday habits of the Madeirans themselves , who used to retire to their summer villas at Monte or Santo da Serra to escape the heat or flocked to the rocky shoreline around Funchal to bathe every day . |
29 | One lady who used to demonstrate with her partner tells the story of a strange event at the Palais . |
30 | Whilst this might be true , for some years now invertebrate neurophysiologists ( by which is meant those who study invertebrates , not a special group of researchers without backbones ! ) , who used to speak of their pet organisms as having simple nervous systems , have rephrased their claim , and refer instead to them as having ‘ simple ’ nervous systems , the inverted commas being deliberately added as a recognition that the complexity of these systems is still many orders of magnitude higher than in the genuinely simple wiring that one might expect of a mere computer . |