Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adjective beautiful , for example , denotes a quality which can be found in many different objects and therefore does not by itself indicate the nature of that about which it is said . |
| 2 | This means the time they spend in the public sector is often much less than that for which they are contracted . |
| 3 | If you change any of these keywords to provide an increased usage of LIFESPAN beyond that for which you are licensed ( ie. increase the number of nodes that can access LIFESPAN or increase the number of concurrent users ) , then you must contact SST Technical Support for the new LICENCEKEY entry . |
| 4 | Note , too , that this size is marginally smaller than that for which you were asked to quote . |
| 5 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 6 | Where the process is used for some purpose other than that for which it is intended , the distinction between an error of judgment and an abuse of process may be rather fine . |
| 7 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 8 | ‘ And I 'll take this for what I 'm owed , ’ I said , and picked up the cloth of papers . |
| 9 | ‘ Alan , I do n't know half of what you 're talking about — people at work and all that- ’ |
| 10 | Maxim could n't catch half of what she was saying , but it seemed mostly on his side . |
| 11 | ‘ You have to bear in mind the consequences for the German people and some of what you are proposing goes way beyond what is acceptable . ’ |
| 12 | Rain 's mind was only half on what he was saying . |
| 13 | It was a sin different in kind from mischief-making and could , in Lydia 's estimation , be excused on the grounds that it was the sexual misbehaviour of another to which she was responding . |
| 14 | A person who is wrongly accused will know that he has not done that of which he is suspected , example , and may be indignant at being the object of suspicion . |
| 15 | Initially what we should all do is go back and look at those draft guidelines for the registration of nursing homes and be prepared to pull them to pieces , not so much for what they are saying but for what they are not saying and ought to be saying in order to be relevant . |
| 16 | The voice-over device ( their spoken thoughts ) only works intermittently because much of what they are thinking could be spoken . |
| 17 | Many will therefore appear relaxed and sleepy but some may not remember much of what they were told pre-operatively and may experience disorientation , alarm , pain or occasionally confusion . |
| 18 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 19 | Head : ‘ Much of what we 're discussing is going round the roundabout for the second time . |
| 20 | you do n't want to hear too much of what you 're recording anyway do you ? |
| 21 | He eyed the boy a moment longer , not certain how much of what he was saying was understood , then gave a small shrug . |
| 22 | I am aware that much of what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light . |
| 23 | About individual differences , much of what I am saying here may not sound too bad , but many people will want to treat sex differences quite otherwise . |
| 24 | I did n't know how much of what I was saying he understood . |
| 25 | Er and much of what I 'm going to say today in the next twenty minutes i it 's bound in here , so there 's no need to take notes . |
| 26 | Had he persevered in that with which he was occupied , he would have produced great works in ilm at which the learned would have stood in awe " ; while Hocazade himself , in a comment on his own career overheard by Taskopruzade 's father , acknowledges Seyyid Serif to be his master but goes on to say : " He had a true zeal [ for with which neither ill-health nor offices alien [ to interfered . |
| 27 | The coalescing of concepts which the reader keeps separate ( simile and the item it describes ) in the minds of the people is captured by underlexicalisation here , conveyed by the quasi-metaphorical fusion of the entity described and that with which it is compared . |
| 28 | If researchers have absolutely no hunches at all about what they are going to find , how can they possibly know what questions to ask ? |
| 29 | The small scale marred definition and the angle was not the same , but there was no doubt at all about what he was looking at . |
| 30 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |