Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explicit arguments of which I know are to my mind hopeless . |
| 2 | ‘ The bordello of which I talk is on the Rue la Boutie under the charge of Madam Edith . |
| 3 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 4 | Erm as the notes to this table indicate , it is a compilation by the panel secretary of what we believe is before us . |
| 5 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 6 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
| 7 | ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea . |
| 8 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 9 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 10 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 11 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 12 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 13 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 14 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 15 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |
| 16 | The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year . |