Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever the subject of sex comes up ( ’ that thing ’ , as he puts it ) , he becomes painfully embarrassed , while in the presence of his mother he behaves like a gangling schoolboy . |
| 2 | Whenever the issue of racism is put on the agenda , they suggest , it is transmuted into questions of prejudice and attitudes , thus leaving a wide range of discriminatory practices and structures unchallenged . |
| 3 | He went further and said that the prosecution bore that burden whenever the issue of prejudice through delay was raised . |
| 4 | It is the type of word that comes into play whenever the mechanism of incidence between two parts of the sentence is left in abeyance . |
| 5 | One of the principal tenets of monetarism is that inflation results whenever the rate of growth of a country 's nominal money supply exceeds the rate of growth of real output . |
| 6 | Whenever the context of production of the message is spatially and/or temporally separated from the context of reception ( as in telephone conversations and in most written uses of language ) , the centre of orientation for the interpretation of deixis is not perceptually available to the addressee and therefore needs to be appropriately reconstructed . |
| 7 | An exhibition royalty is similar to a performance royalty , whereby a royalty is paid whenever a piece of music or a play is broadcast or performed in public . |
| 8 | Whenever a piece of paper gets screwed up and thrown away like that it 's always a vital clue . ’ |
| 9 | The Doppler Shift occurs whenever a source of sound ( or light or any other kind of wave ) and a receiver of that sound move relative to one another . |
| 10 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
| 11 | Policemen marshall grumbling queues whenever a load of bread or chickens jolts in from the country . |
| 12 | Whenever a loss of finesse occurs , the hand of an assistant can usually be detected . |
| 13 | The status of non-partners must be indicated for avoidance of doubt whenever a situation of inadvertent holding out might otherwise arise . |
| 14 | As I read the judgment of the assistant recorder this was his true ratio on that part of the case wherein the absence of consideration was raised in argument . |
| 15 | This was ratified in an agreement of 20 Feb. 1691 wherein every pound of money in profit was to be shared as indicated in the table below : |
| 16 | The importance of reading and writing skills in English is clearly increasing for all four companies whereby the position of English as the ‘ Latin ’ of European business for written communications is becoming more and more consolidated . |
| 17 | Most social anthropologists probably adhere to some form of ‘ soft ’ cultural relativism , whereby the thrust of explanation of human ideas and behaviour is placed within the framework of the particular sociocultural institutions of a society . |
| 18 | A factory process whereby the surface of aluminium is coated with a build-up of aluminium oxide . |
| 19 | This was Bukharin 's main concern here : he posed the question of the relationship of planning to the law of value as being symbiotic , a gradual process whereby the law of value withers away , and the greater the conscious control of society exerted over economic processes , the faster this withering will be . |
| 20 | Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process . |
| 21 | This would be preferable to the ad hoc provisions available under Section 11 of the Competition Act 1980 , whereby the Secretary of State for Trade can direct the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to investigate efficiency , costs , the level of quality of the service provided and possible misuse of monopoly power within nationalized industries . |
| 22 | They are said to have disagreed about the calendar cycles whereby the dating of Easter was fixed each year . |
| 23 | Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum . |
| 24 | It is ironic that the British government should have gone through so many contortions over local government tax , finally to arrive at a system whereby the bulk of tax is raised centrally and distributed to the local authorities , while such a system has been the norm in Germany for decades . |
| 25 | This is the author 's own statement of intent in the Introduction : Ryan sees the essence of fictionality as an act of " recentering " , whereby the world of reference of a text is shifted from the actual world to an alternative possible world , which functions as the actual world of the universe projected by the text ( Chapter 1 ) . |
| 26 | In addition , many of them can be tied into Personal Construct Theory in a way that allows its associated Repertory Grid Technique to be used both as an investigatory tool and as a means whereby the perception of art might be enhanced . |
| 27 | It did not prove difficult for John Graham of Dougalston , the sheriff-depute of Stirlingshire , and one of the commissioners of the Duke of Montrose , to arrange a compromise , whereby the commission of collector would run in the name of Michael Elphinstone , but the office would in reality be divided with Craigbarnet , who would receive almost half of the salary . |
| 28 | ‘ Friends For Fitness ’ was a pilot scheme whereby a register of volunteer ‘ friends ’ was kept by the ‘ On Line ’ sports enquiry agency , who then matched them with enquirers about sport . |
| 29 | In Foley v Classique Coaches Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 1 the restraint of trade doctrine was applied to an agreement whereby a purchaser of land agreed to take from the seller all the petrol required for the purchaser 's business carried out on that land . |
| 30 | It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe . |