Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he is stopped at military posts now , he produces his book and says , ‘ Look , these are all my friends who will protest if I am arrested again ’ . |
| 2 | These figures range from Azam Khan , ‘ one of the chief nobles of the Empire ’ whose principal claim to fame is his vast harem and his insatiable appetites ( ‘ a pederast , he is also fond of beautiful girls … whenever he is informed of the availability of a lad or a fine wench he endeavours to be the buyer ’ ) ; through Taqi , ‘ one of the famous eunuchs and the ringleader of the conjurors of Hindustan ’ ( ‘ his house is the abode of delicate beauties , some as fair as the dawn while others are as dark as volatile passion ’ ) ; to great musicians such as the blind drummer Shah Nawaz who played his own stomach as if it was a tabla drum ; or the disgusting Surkhi , a glutton who ‘ snored and expectorated loudly ’ but whose horrible habits were overlooked by his hosts because of the unique beauty of his voice ( ‘ as melodious as a nightingale ’ ) , his brilliant mimicry and his ready wit . |
| 3 | It is no good the Minister , whenever he is found to be wanting and to be wrong , starting to hurl abuse across the Chamber or making allegations that have absolutely no substance . |
| 4 | … flying past in the moonlight , crying bitterly … this spirit is mournful beyond all other sounds on earth and betokens certain death … whenever it is heard in the silence of the night . |
| 5 | Thus a state whose institutions appear to be newly absorbed or influenced by the partisan considerations of government is likely to suffer erosion of legitimacy whenever it is challenged on a particular point . |
| 6 | ‘ The recent change from Madam to Madame , ’ she said , ‘ though it has doubtless raised the tone and general tenor of proceedings in this low and benighted place , has not quite succeeded in erasing the traces of squalor and indeed sleaze which cling to that title in the popular or gutter imagination whenever it is applied to a hard-working woman . |
| 7 | A very good theory will be one that makes very wide-ranging claims about the world , and which is consequently highly falsifiable , and is one that resists falsification whenever it is put to the test . |
| 8 | You may find you can overlook your husband 's interest in pornography , or strike a compromise whereby none is brought into the house . |
| 9 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
| 10 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Halema , with her eyes laughing , ‘ she does not know how she is protected by our prayers from Boudariah . ’ |
| 11 | This is then used to explain both why societies contain a dominant instance , and how it is determined by economic practice . |
| 12 | Our people does n't see how it is run by satanic power . ’ |
| 13 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 14 | At other times , however , reason can correct the appearances of sense ; from the waxing and waning of the moon , according to how it is illuminated by the sun , we can deduce that it is a globe , and not the flat disc it appears to be . |
| 15 | The arrow with a large tip is placed across the right shoulder of the hero , but it is not clear how it is sustained in this position . |
| 16 | Second , once a strategy has been formulated , its impact on industrial relations in the enterprise depends on how it is transmitted into and down through the organization . |
| 17 | Lagerfeld demands and gets total creative control not only of the design of the collection , but how it is presented to the world . |
| 18 | The distinction between what a writer has to say , and how it is presented to the reader , underlies one of the earliest and most persistent concepts of style:that of style as the " dress of thought " . |
| 19 | Originally , as someone interested in medical sociology and medical law , I wanted to see how medical evidence becomes translated into appropriate legal terms in child abuse cases , and how it is balanced against other evidence ( Cavenagh , 1975 ) . |
| 20 | How a person perceives changes may be affected by how it is perceived by other members of the family and society . |
| 21 | A PR executive thus needs to be placed so that he or she is aware of all issues , policies , attitudes and opinions that exist in the organisation that have a bearing upon how it is perceived by the organisation 's publics . |
| 22 | The utopias which those most sensitive to envy and guilt have devised throughout the ages for their own relief remain literally utopian : the question is not how envy is removed , but how it is lived with . |
| 23 | The story makes some very profound points about the role of ritual in religion , the development of conceptual understanding , the meaning of the word " spiritual " and how it is related to religion . |
| 24 | What we have not yet considered is where the body clock is and how it is adjusted by external time-cues . |
| 25 | Details of the secondary booklet and of how it is intended to be used are given in Chapter 4 , which presents case studies of two secondary schools making use of it . |
| 26 | Skill is a functional concept aimed at the understanding of how it is done without recourse to the detail of underlying physiological mechanisms . |
| 27 | Even the control of birth has played a part in it , although we are not very much in favour of how it is done by the system . |
| 28 | We have assumed that stylistics investigates the relation between the writer 's artistic achievement , and how it is achieved through language . |
| 29 | Where the patent system is concerned , Wiener notices how it is manipulated by industrial corporations to the disadvantage of individual inventors , and one of his main aims in the book is to provoke thought about a fairer approach to patents and about comparable rewards for scientists whose discoveries can not be patented . |
| 30 | It explains how the body works and how it is affected by drugs . |