Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , to return to Shneidman and Farberow 's ‘ psychosemantic fallacy ’ , ‘ We believe that this confusion or ambiguity may indeed occur whenever the individual thinks about his death , whether by suicide or otherwise . |
| 2 | Whenever the Prowler appears at car shows , Chrysler has a queue of people wanting to put down their deposits to buy one . |
| 3 | Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn . |
| 4 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 5 | A communication is protected if it is made to a person who has a duty to receive and act upon it : thus complaints to " higher authority " are privileged , whenever the authority complained to is in a position to investigate or discipline or supervise . |
| 6 | There 's talk of hiring special transport and shutting down most of the offices for the morning or the afternoon , whenever the funeral happens to be . ’ |
| 7 | She recalled Ian 's advice and whenever the picture came before her eyes , she tried breathing it out . |
| 8 | Imagine a government that follows the typically Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy , relaxing fiscal or monetary policy whenever the economy moves into a recession and tightening fiscal or monetary policy when the economy is booming . |
| 9 | He just laughed and told me that his old one was well good enough for whenever the time came for me to take over . |
| 10 | A light came on whenever a subject paused for longer than 600 milliseconds , although subjects were merely told that the light indicated when their story-telling was poor . |
| 11 | Whenever a call came into that number , their electronic exchange could run back up the line to establish the source of the call . |
| 12 | Impromptu discussion groups formed whenever a man sat outside his house . |
| 13 | Whenever a man smiled at him he smiled right back . |
| 14 | But , especially , they show that whenever a siege occurred at neighbouring villages invariably suffered a s a result of heavy billeting , garrisoning , or even the mustering of armies on their greens and in their fields . |
| 15 | Sometimes , but not too often , there was the sound of a window being broken , whereupon a general speedy exodus took place , with the consequent panic whenever a knock came at the street door during the next few days . |
| 16 | ‘ Whenever a death occurs as a result of a breach of another 's duty of care to the deceased , the death is unnatural and the coroner is under a duty to investigate . |
| 17 | The beards of the barley gave it a restless white ripple like tossed water whenever a breeze ran through the field . |
| 18 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 19 | Whenever an instruction starts with the words ‘ Let's all ’ everyone MUST do it . |
| 20 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 21 | This is the treatment required by SSAP 1 whenever an investment ceases to be an associate . |
| 22 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 23 | The bill , after being passed by the Lords , receives the royal assent , a mere formality , whereby the monarch accedes to the bill . |
| 24 | The technique used to train suppression of the interference is ‘ shadowing ’ , whereby the listener reproduces in speech word-for-word a source language message in that source language itself . |
| 25 | A computer system is also available whereby the record kept by the court stenographer is fed to a print-out on a screen for the defendant . |
| 26 | The concept of ‘ teaching by objectives ’ , and regular progress monitoring , can be regarded as offering a system whereby no child slips through the net . |
| 27 | He was the inventor of water pick-up troughs laid between the rails , whereby a scoop lowered into the trough from the locomotive or tender allowed additional water to be picked up whilst the train was running , thus making possible much longer non-stop runs . |
| 28 | This is the process whereby a substance spreads from a region of high concentration or pressure to a region of lower concentration or pressure . |
| 29 | A sales channel can also be indirect , whereby a manufacturer sells to a wholesaler or agent , who sells in smaller lots to other customers . |
| 30 | In Malaysian electronics , this ‘ has sometimes led to the ridiculous situation whereby a company based near a factory producing ICs places an order with the manufacturer 's parent company or regional marketing office . |