Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 2 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 3 | Theodora wondered which it was in this case . |
| 4 | I mean , you can see what I 'm like this evening . |
| 5 | Yeah , cos er Lorraine told me last , what Lorraine works every two weeks , what she 's on this weekend , so erm , so it 's two weeks ago she told |
| 6 | Whatever we were to each other , that we still are … |
| 7 | Features that are intrinsically valuable in our national citizenship could be undermined if we are so uncertain about what they are in any case . |
| 8 | But er that was one of the things er he kep it was an enjoyable trip and the roads were in these days , er you get the motorways today , I just think on the roads , what they were in these days , there was even some places we went through a ford in the middle of the road , with the water about two or three inches deep . |
| 9 | We were quick to condemn American Open Champion , Curtis Strange , for voicing his opinion of a spectator , a cameraman — whatever it was during this year 's U.S.P.G.A. Championship . |
| 10 | ‘ I wonder , sometimes , what it is about that woman that haunts both you and me ? ’ |
| 11 | It is not always clear , though , what it is about some events that leads to severe and prolonged distress . |
| 12 | I do n't know what it is about this study … sort of phoney . |
| 13 | I know what it 's like these days — we 're all stretched as far as we can go ’ — he sighed — ‘ but I 've had a little think and I see a way round it for you . |
| 14 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 15 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |
| 16 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |