Example sentences of "of [Wh det] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 2 | This chapter , together with chapters 2 and 3 , has dealt rather selectively with a number of issues pertaining to fieldwork strategy , many of which are still the subject of controversy . |
| 3 | For causal theorists there are only nerve impulses , all of which are essentially the same . |
| 4 | There is a substantial body of legal precedent in support of this doctrine , the most well known of which is probably the Gray 's Inn Construction case . |
| 5 | The high viscosity of these solutions keeps them in the eye longer , while the polymer itself is intended to mimic the ocular mucins ( glycoproteins ) , a deficiency of which is often the cause of dry eye symptoms , and promote tear film stability . |
| 6 | Only more recently was the site of Gunnersbury House used by the late Leopold de Rothschild in order to build the palatial house , part of which is now the Gunnersbury Museum . |
| 7 | The Eric Liddell Centre was established at the former North Morningside Church in 1974 , by the congregations of four churches on Holy Corner , Morningside , one of which was formerly the runner 's home church . |
| 8 | As I reported in April , the SACOMT panel reported on the future of training in the 1990 's with a plea for rationalisation — part of which was apparently the quiet displacement of the training committee . |
| 9 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 10 | But in fact Brooke-Rose was learning to re-use her talents to new ends , one of which was precisely the readerly frustration that reviewers complained of . |
| 11 | Markers , the first of which were perhaps the surveying staffs themselves , were put in place to guide travellers . |
| 12 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 13 | Discounting variant examples of what is fundamentally the same tale , there are at least 127 fabliaux in the medieval French corpus . |
| 14 | The subject of what is evidently the principal side of the vase ( fig. 108 ) is much argued over : the Argonauts , the Seven against Thebes , the Underworld ; the morning of Marathon ; but I believe it has now been made nearly sure . |
| 15 | While it is right , and of some urgency , to look at the global environment and to be involved in discussions regarding pollution of our oceans , the greenhouse effect , the destruction of rain forests in South America and so on , we should not lose sight of what is primarily the concern of the individual : that is , the local environment . |
| 16 | In Loch nan Geireann , between Beinn Dhubh Shollais and Crogary Hills , in the north is Eilean an Tighe , where archaeologists discovered the remains of what is probably the oldest pottery workshop in Western Europe . |
| 17 | Behind this monument from the past , no more than an old man 's rotten tooth , rise the buildings of the new age , featureless mathematical boxes assembled from concrete , their serried rows of uniform plate glass windows catching a gleam of what is probably the setting sun . |
| 18 | In other words , these are the cases where there is the greatest public impact , so , while a small minority , these high-profile cases will tend to be used by the public as indicators of what is normally the outcome . |
| 19 | The possessor of what is unquestionably the world 's largest and finest collection of contemporary art , Saatchi has sold before — but never , according to the rumours , on anything like this scale . |
| 20 | A complete collection of what is possibly the richest music ever composed . |
| 21 | ‘ You see , ’ Livings said , ‘ they all have part of what is basically the same building . |
| 22 | The crypt of what is now the House of Commons has been the venue of many historical events . |
| 23 | The first meeting of what is now the oldest body of archers in the United Kingdom was held at Scorton on the 14th May 1673 . |
| 24 | By the start of the First World War , many of the older members of what is now the British Commonwealth of Nations were well on the way to de facto independence of the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | This area of pumiceous tuffs is only a small part of a much larger blanket of Pliocene ignimbrites covering more than 20 000 square kilometres , which originated from a catastrophic eruptive phase in the central sections of what is now the Kenya rift . |
| 26 | In the summerhouse in the garden of what is now the College of Education the Treaty of Union with England was signed 1707 . |
| 27 | Within the gate of what is now the Bank of Scotland 's premises in Jedburgh is preserved a ‘ Loupin'-on Stane ’ from which they used to mount their horses before setting off . |
| 28 | Fourteen contractors , under the control of what is now the Independent Television Commission ( ITC ) are responsible for programming and for advertising sales for the original ITV Channel , ITV1 . |
| 29 | The mobile belts of Proterozoic times extended the length of what is now the North Atlantic , from east Greenland and Norway in the north , via the British Isles , Newfoundland and the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa in the south . |
| 30 | I was disappointed that in his opening speech the Foreign Secretary did not even mention the horrific growth in racial attacks and neo-Nazi bands that are now rampaging around the eastern part of what is now the unified Germany . |