Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CORONATION Street actress Lynne Perrie was recovering in hospital today after what is believed to have been a severe asthma attack that led to her sudden collapse at Granada 's TV studios in Manchester . |
| 2 | A mechanism for periodic review after what is deemed an appropriate time must , then , be built into any plan that is devised . |
| 3 | I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers . |
| 4 | It is terminated by an Arch , through which is seen other Arches with close Arbors , and a row of Trees to the end of the View . |
| 5 | Like Eliot 's sharply witty version of this paradox : The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part ; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer 's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart , the meditator in the short text exclaims : But the force of this metaphor of healing is lost , together with the lyrical cadences of alliteration , in the long version : This existentially known contrast between the body of death through which is encountered the possibility of life is at the heart of Christian mysticism itself experienced in playing the game of faith which renews the truth of the Incarnation . |
| 6 | Esquire is a prism through which is refracted a spectrum of good writing , be it the latest work of an established voice , or the emerging voice of a master in the market . |
| 7 | All other stress components are zero as are the strains except for which is given by where u is the displacement measured on a fiducial length l . |
| 8 | The intensional pattern corresponding to ( 44 ) is that of ( 47 ) , where once more the property instantiated by the adjective is underlined : ( 47 ) The mapping of the intensional pattern onto the surface syntax of English is again very direct and very natural , being reflected solely in the order of the instantiating elements , with again adjectival form as an overt marker that the second property is applied to the initial E. What ( 47 ) suggests , however , is that the similarity of construction is not between postverbal and predicate qualifier , which has the intensional structure given in ( 48 ) , but rather between postverbal and adverbal , the intensional structure for which is repeated here as ( 49 ) : ( 48 ) ( 49 ) From the point of view of the adjectival property , ( 47 ) and ( 49 ) are essentially the same ; the adjectival property syntactically qualifies another property word , while it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase in immediate construction with the property expression of which the adjective forms part . |
| 9 | Thank you for the cheque for £300 , a receipt for which is enclosed . |
| 10 | The University has been developing ever stronger links with Europe , such as the European Credit Transfer system in Medicine ( the symbol for which is shown above ) . |
| 11 | Farrow urged the abolition of Bills of Sale , the statutory form for which is reproduced here . |
| 12 | The association produces a regular newsletter — one aim of which is to publicise and coordinate research- and is planning a series of conference on appropriate themes . |
| 13 | The seminary itself is difficult to see , the approach from the road leading only to an imposing wall with faceless windows and a usually , barred door It was built by San Carlo Borromeo in 1564 and is square , the four walls enclosing a courtyard that measures 56 metres on one side and is surrounded by a double tier gallery , each floor of which is supported by double Doric columns . |
| 14 | Financial circumstances other than as a result of redundancy under the terms of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 ( notice of which is received after the issue of the Booking Confirmation ) , disinclination to travel or weather conditions . |
| 15 | These are tensioned in the ‘ down ’ position by an elastic or bungee , one end of which is hooked on the bowsprit , and the other linked to a trip line which runs through the two sails to the slotted tube at the rear , where it is retained by the release pin . |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp will launch three new Alpha workstations running the OSF/1 operating system tomorrow , April 20 , adding a new high end model and two entry level machines — the cheapest of which is priced at less than £5,000 . |
| 17 | A semiconductor product is defined as : an article the purpose , or one of the purposes , of which is the performance of an electronic function and which consists of two or more layers , at least one of which is composed of semiconducting material and in or upon one or more of which is fixed a pattern appertaining to that or another function . |
| 18 | This year , for instance , the council asked for permission to spend £25m on tackling the town 's housing problems but it has been allocated only £3.8m one third of which is earmarked for improvement grants to private homes and the rest to ongoing council schemes . |
| 19 | It is not Leavis 's goal to produce " national intellectuals " to serve as state missionaries , but rather a free.floating and critical educated class , membership of which is characterized by a particular kind of mental orientation : " It is an intelligence so trained that is best fitted to develop into the central kind of mind , the co-ordinating consciousness , capable of performing the function assigned to the class of the educate . " |
| 20 | The mosaic comprises eight compartments each of which is separated by " spokes ' of simple guilloche . |
| 21 | The pages should be reduced and photographed in columns into the microfiche matrix , the top row of which is reserved so that legible headings or titles can be added to identify the microfiche when it is produced . |
| 22 | With a few exceptions , all fish have a swimbladder , the function of which is to allow the fish to float and maintain equilibrium in the water . |
| 23 | This device should more accurately be described as a freewheel , the intent of which is to allow the blades to rotate at high speed while the motor is idling or stopped . |
| 24 | Awards are made in the form of grants , the level of which is based on financial need , and all matriculated students are eligible for application . |
| 25 | None of which is to say that Galway 's anguish is not fully justified . |
| 26 | None of which is to say the record labels are not trying hard to stretch country where they can . |
| 27 | A multijunction cell , Solarex believes , should be more efficient as it uses layers of different crystals , each of which is optimised for a specific band of the visible light spectrum . |
| 28 | The radio-friendly ‘ Talk Much ’ features a couple of serious John DaSilva mixes , one of which is named after the Hacienda Shiva nights . |
| 29 | Right there are two iron oxides commonly used in the blast furnace , one of which is named because of its colour Excuse me a moment . |
| 30 | Restaurants , cafes and a couple of seasonal shops line part of the shore , some of which is made up into sandy beaches . |