Example sentences of "of [Wh adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |
| 2 | This information was then transferred to a new map using Briggs ' Key to give an impression of where the second zone might possibly be ( fig 4 ) . |
| 3 | Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |
| 5 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 6 | The strong smell of damp and cats gave a quick explanation of why the first two floors of the building were uninhabited . |
| 7 | He laid particular emphasis on those passages in the New Testament ( e.g. Mark 13 : 32 ) that emphasize our total ignorance of when the Second Coming will occur . |
| 8 | This brilliant piece of oratory which I have in my hand here , in addition to many other valuable insights , contains three alternative definitions of faith , two gentle digs at Professor , and one definitive statement of when the third millennium begins . |
| 9 | Now there 's a new twist : how come we can know when a missile is even threatening to fall on Tel Aviv or Riyadh or Dharan , yet remain ignorant of when the next train will leave Waterloo station — or where it is heading ? |