Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] in " in BNC.
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1 | As has been seen , the analysis which I prefer is couched in the language not of acts and omissions , but of duties . |
2 | So my position is based on a sort of on going activity which I believe is rooted in what 's happening in the Black community at the moment . |
3 | Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed . |
4 | It was obviously not made clear to you that the so called Collateral Agreement should have been signed ‘ Under Seal ’ , by which I presume is meant in front of a Notary Public . |
5 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
6 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
7 | Martha longed to show off her advancement in reading and writing , for which she had been noted in the valley , and was bewildered and humiliated when she could make no sense of the books she was given . |
8 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
9 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
10 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
11 | Police are investigating the blaze which they said was started in ‘ suspicious circumstances . ’ |
12 | Another highly important fact is that some sets of cross- references taken together would actually reveal inadequacies in the way in which the material to which they refer is handled in the dictionary in its present form . |
13 | Also , of course , the ferment in the universities was in part a revolt against the technocratic role which they had been assigned in the Wilsonian scheme of things . |
14 | One has seen people from the shop floor sent to help start up plants overseas , and seen them rapidly take responsibilities far beyond those which they had been given in their home organization . |
15 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
16 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
17 | The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release . |
18 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
19 | ‘ It makes no sense to regard ministers as any longer accountable to their national parliaments for policies on which they have been outvoted in the Council of Ministers . |
20 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
21 | His appointment was the success story of this period , and even when the Goldsmiths eventually washed their hands of the School , they continued to help him with gifts to the Church to which he had been appointed in Portwood . |
22 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
23 | In late December Alberto Jorge Triaca , a former Labour Minister dropped from the Cabinet in a reshuffle in January 1991 [ see p. 37959 ] , was dismissed by Menem as the head of SOMISA , the country 's largest steel mill , a post to which he had been appointed in May 1991 . |
24 | He remained until 1978 president of the European Broadcasting Union , a post to which he had been elected in 1973 and which he greatly treasured . |
25 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
26 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
27 | Mugabe stated that Tekere could rejoin ZANU-PF , from which he had been expelled in October 1988 [ see p. 36415 ] , provided that he " retrace his steps " . |
28 | But Arran did get his duchy of Châtelherault , worth 12,000 livres ( £1000 sterling ) per annum , in February 1549 ; and in June or July of that year , his half-brother John Abbot of Paisley was finally recognized as Beaton 's successor in the archbishopric of St Andrews , to which he had been provided in November 1547 . |
29 | The bowyer came out of the back of the shop , the bow case which he had been selecting in his hands . |
30 | Elements of the macroeconomic framework which he proposed were examined in Chapter 10 . |