Example sentences of "of [Wh det] pass [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a ‘ bound ’ book , the printed gatherings are sewn onto four or five horizontal cords , the ends of which pass through holes in the covering boards and are firmly glued . |
| 2 | It is , therefore , the arc of a great circle , the plane of which passes through the centre of the sphere . |
| 3 | Each of the latter consists of two bundles of fibres , one of which passes to the labrum as the labral nerve , and the other forms the root of the frontal ganglion . |
| 4 | ‘ I have brought you here , Miss Kyte , ’ resumed Miss Merchiston in what was for her a pleasant tone , ‘ that you may tell Mr Quatt of what passed between yourself and my dear mother . ’ |
| 5 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 6 | Since it was to be a fortnightly , the best thing was to alternate with the other half of what passed for London 's alternative press , Private Eye . |
| 7 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |
| 8 | ‘ In the present state of what passes for civilization , our efforts have to be directed solely towards relieving the plight of children living in poverty . |
| 9 | This article , then , is motivated by a dissatisfaction or a discomfort with most of what passes for television theory : the doubts about the existence of anything which can usefully be called television theory are real . |
| 10 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 11 | Much of what passes for creativity is flashy or fashionable , or relies on advertising industry in-jokes . |
| 12 | Most of what passes for women 's education and which is considered different in kind and emphasis from that which is usually provided in mainstream education for women , is , in my view , a transparent variation on a familiar theme . |
| 13 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 14 | Those who operate according to total ignorance about the women 's movement also pay scant attention to social class and race as critical concerns in the content and teaching and provision of what passes as adult education . |
| 15 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |