Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 2 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 3 | Fourteen of these patients are well , a mean of 9.4 years ( range 3–12 ) after what should have been their programme entry date . |
| 4 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 5 | The two meanings are ( i ) ‘ the astronaut entered the atmosphere for ( at least ) the second time ’ and ( ii ) ‘ the astronaut returned to the atmosphere ( after what could have been his/her first trip into space ) ’ . |
| 6 | There had been doubts about which would break first , Christmas or booksellers ' spirits . |
| 7 | Cos there 's millions and millions of pounds that the revenue have got rushing about which should have been repaid to er investors . |
| 8 | Clearly , the largest surfaces to be covered in any room are the walls and the floor , and there are invariably two schools of thought about which should have preference in the budget . |
| 9 | The delegates supported a motion to create a co-operative bank network , the capital for which would come from part of the government subsidies to farmers for 1992 of 6,500 million roubles . |
| 10 | It will give her something of her own to love and care for which will return her love , and help to reduce any feelings she may have of being ‘ odd man out ’ in the home . |
| 11 | After defeats against Italy , Ireland and France , the Scots have made sweeping changes for their final encounter , prospects for which will revolve around the amount of ball they can supply for a back division sure to be enlivened by the presence of will-o-the-wisp stand-off , Derrick Lee . |
| 12 | Intelligence reports had indicated that such a reactor , the plans and equipment for which could have been supplied by China in 1990 [ see p. 38548 ] , had been built in the northern mountains . |
| 13 | Before the meeting you are asked to consider the questions listed below which will form the basis of our discussions . |
| 14 | All of which might make the future less bright for Sequent Computer Systems Inc , which currently provides the top-end 6000/75 and 85 multiprocessors for Unisys . |
| 15 | Where there is limited net asset cover , the vendors might be asked to warrant that they are not aware of any information relating to the target which has been knowingly withheld , the disclosure of which might effect the decision of the purchaser to proceed . |
| 16 | The uncertain boundaries of the duchy gave rise to numerous disputes , any one of which might flare up into a major conflict , as the war of Saint Sardos demonstrated . |
| 17 | However , there were other reasons such as ‘ lost documentation ’ and small balances written off , all of which comprised the annual figure , the disclosure of which might result in too much attention being given to his department . |
| 18 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 19 | All of which might prompt us to ask the question , what is the real connection between gender and sex ? |
| 20 | In his Directions for Taking up Plants and Shrubs and Conveying Them by Sea , John Fothergill suggested placing seeds among specimens in boxes , some of which might succeed if the plants failed . |
| 21 | In these circumstances tournaments were not confined within enclosed lists but ranged over several square miles of ground , taking in villages , woods and vineyards , all of which might suffer as much damage as in real war . |
| 22 | β-blockade might impair carbohydrate metabolism either as a consequence of direct β-adrenoreceptor blockade or as the result of relatively unopposed α activity , either of which might suppress insulin release . |
| 23 | Up to five stages in the life cycle could be identified , each of which might respond to a different agent . |
| 24 | Thus , when buying or selling barley , they take account of the supplies of such things as sugar , which can be used as substitutes for it in brewing , and again of all the various feeding stuffs , a scarcity of which might raise the value of barley for consumption on the farm . |
| 25 | Information concerning or identifying another pupil should not be disclosed , and information , the disclosure of which might cause serious harm to the mental or physical health or emotional condition of the pupil or anyone else , or which indicates that the pupil has or may be likely to suffer child abuse , should not be disclosed . |
| 26 | In drug addiction a sufferer may use a regular daily quantity of drug , a single dose of which might kill a non-addicted person . |
| 27 | Besides , there is no reason why the distribution of later preferences , any of which might become operative , would be the same on the 1,476 papers selected for transfer to Craig as it would be on all of the 3,813 papers including those not so selected . |
| 28 | In the abbey church of St Seurin at Bordeaux , for example , he could see Roland 's horn , the sound of which might have summoned reinforcements to Roncesvalles but which Roland , more careful of his reputation than of his life , had refused to blow until it was too late . |
| 29 | The cellars are full of junk , most of which might have been useful once but all of which is now covered in water or mud or fungus . |
| 30 | At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) . |