Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) .
2 There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree .
3 On one occasion he is said to have decorated the whole of the College in three days after which he could still outlast anyone on the dance floor .
4 They saw abstractions as in some warm and coloured , and the sort of things to which you could appropriately apply quite vivid adjectives .
5 They saw abstractions as in some way warm and coloured , and the sort of things to which you could appropriately apply quite vivid adjectives .
6 The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it .
7 Transport in Cities is a good , clear illustrated guide to the ways in which we could greatly improved urban living by civilising our means of transport .
8 Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time .
9 He added , however , that his Ministry is looking into ways in which it could legally ban their importation .
10 If she did , he would know at once that there were certain ways in which he could still get to her .
11 Also , there are situations in which it could well save the day .
12 Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon .
13 Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea , actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon .
14 One did not see uniformed members of the Partito Nazionale Fascista walking about the streets every day , but from time to time there were parades in which they could easily be identified .
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