Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier to assume that the islands had been stocked by the accidental transportation of small numbers of individuals from the mainland , after which each population had simply adapted to its new environment in a different way . |
| 2 | For that is the only way to achieve freedom , after which all the nations , including the Šiptars , will be able to decide their future , with the right of self-determination , including secession . |
| 3 | He developed cancer , and despite radium treatment — after which all his hair fell out — he was declared terminally ill . |
| 4 | If we take Cournot 's time-honoured example of the mineral water duopoly , with the exception that we suppose developing a spring involves a fixed cost F , after which all the water desired can be extracted at a constant marginal cost ( of c , possibly zero ) , then we have a natural monopoly in the sense that average cost is continually declining . |
| 5 | " The Chairman after a few remarks called upon Mr. Borland to read his Essay on " Labour , " after which all the Members in rotation were requested to give their views on the subject . |
| 6 | Mr. Stewart and Mr. James Cowan and that the Subject was to be Republic versus Monarchy … after which all the Members present took part in the discussion and on the vote being taken Eleven voted for Monarchy and Five for Republic . " |
| 7 | When the consultation period ends and the final SORPS2 is published , a date will be set ( probably July 94 ) after which all charities will have to comply with the procedures . |
| 8 | He then presented me with three sheep , after which all his family and relations asked for presents . |
| 9 | He was born heir to the betrayed promise of the Great War , after which another Welshman had assured the returning British soldier of a ‘ home fit for heroes to live in ’ . |
| 10 | The judges , for their part , came increasingly to regard the law as embodying a legal limit of forty-eight hours , after which any detainee had to be brought before a court . |
| 11 | A disregard of £4 per week is granted after which any other income is taken fully into account . |
| 12 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 13 | Yesterday was a rest day for the Scots , who had a strenuous net session after which most were going to watch Omar Henry playing for Orange Free State against Western Province in a day-night game in the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 14 | During the evening the females are placed in the aquarium , after which some brine shrimp and sifted Daphnia are added . |
| 15 | Angry supporters were forcibly ejected from the court , after which some 6,000 protesters attacked government buildings and official cars in the city centre . |
| 16 | In mid-June Conde had been questioned by police in connection with the discovery of parcels of weapons and political leaflets at the airport ; his summons provoked clashes between his supporters and the security forces , after which some 60 people were arrested and all demonstrations in the capital banned . |
| 17 | Pre-dinner cocktails are popular , after which those on half board retire to the Yali Han terrace for their evening meal , an informal affair where you can join the others , or re-arrange tables to suit yourselves . |
| 18 | The discussion then became general after which both leaders replied , the vote was taken when eleven voted for negative and eight for affirmative . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you expect me to remain after what that woman said of me ? ’ |
| 20 | After what that evil bastard did to me , you could n't possibly tell me anything about him that would make me more frightened of him than I already am . ’ |
| 21 | Obviously , after what some of them have gone through , they can at least live in safety , but that is no basis for a completely new beginning after a shattered career , education and family life . |
| 22 | The 1974 discovery of the Water Newton hoard , a cache of 30 gold coins of the period AD 330–50 , taken alongside the important fourth-century school of mosaicists , clearly indicate continued wealth at the site , about which all too little is known . |
| 23 | This is a matter about which many sociolinguists feel sensitive , particularly since a large proportion of the communities which they study are repressed indigenous groups like the Aborigines , or underprivileged ethnic minorities like the American blacks or British Asians . |
| 24 | If anything , TV should enhance the value of those unspoken moments so rendingly charted in this production , and it will preserve three near-definitive performances which too few people were able to see last year either at Stratford or the Young Vic : operate singer White 's sweet-faced Moor , shiningly simple acting about which many London critics were unduly patronising ; McKellen 's sweaty and furious Iago ; and Zoe Wanamaker 's unforgettable Emilia , a belated voice of conscience and wisdom in a household destroyed by passion . |
| 25 | But race was the subject about which many party activists felt most strongly . |
| 26 | But there are still many types of handicap — such as autism — about which little is known . |
| 27 | The relation between these inherent motives for culture and society is a matter that requires analysis of the epigenetic regulations of brain growth , about which little is yet known . |
| 28 | This is a period about which little is known for few records survive of those days . |
| 29 | Samo 's empire , about which little is known , held sway over the Sava valley from Zagreb to the Julian Alps , and northward from Ljubljana across Austria , Bohemia and Moravia into Saxony . |
| 30 | Because although we 've harnessed that force , know how to generate it and use it — it is still essentially a force about which little is known in terms of its effects on us . |