Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing about him he could understand , nothing of which he could be sure . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing of which you would approve , Doctor Horrocks , ’ she teased , and saw immediately that the Rector might misunderstand . |
| 3 | Rachel looked up sharply but his expression was inscrutable , giving away nothing of what he might be feeling . |
| 4 | Nothing like what he would call ‘ photography ’ . |
| 5 | She gave him what was left of the already denuded packet : only two hundred pounds , it was true , and nothing like what it should be . |
| 6 | We had visiting lecturers delivering a variety of information , none of which I can recall . |
| 7 | It seemed Noah wanted the magistrate to find nothing with which he could possibly take issue . |
| 8 | Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry . |
| 9 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 10 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 11 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 12 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 13 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 14 | I have what to you may seem a small problem but one for which I can find no reason . |
| 15 | It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say . |
| 16 | The photographs show you something of what you will see — underground roadways , coal-faces , haulage engines , and on the surface the blacksmiths ' shop , the baths , and exhibitions . |
| 17 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 18 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 19 | That is not something of which we can be certain . |
| 20 | This respect for Eliot and the desire to do something of which he would approve , was further manifested in the Maritains ' wish that I should visit Bergson . |
| 21 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 22 | Looking back , I can not deny that the grant of the licence was something of which he could legitimately complain , but his capacity for complaints exceeded any normal human being 's by a very large measure . |
| 23 | Although Darwin had guessed that the Galapagos birds originated from there , because the Galapagos were so young , it was not something of which he could be certain . |
| 24 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 25 | The disposal of industrial and often hazardous waste is another problem , but one with which we should be equally concerned and one which we can ultimately influence . |
| 26 | A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing . |
| 27 | I , for one , could n't make a 10in bowl in 45 minutes — at least , not one with which I would be satisfied . |
| 28 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 29 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 30 | There are peel-off labels for the long holiday dates , something with which you can amuse yourself on the next bank holiday . |