Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They consume , destroy , and devour whole fields , houses and cities For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and dearest wool , there noblemen and gentlemen , yea and certain abbots … leave no ground for tillage . |
| 2 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 3 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 4 | For reasons to which I shall refer later I do not think that we should do that . |
| 5 | Anyway , if the right hon. Gentleman had remained in the Chamber , he would have realised that much of what he said was total nonsense , for reasons to which I shall turn in a moment . |
| 6 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 7 | Political uncertainty , after the Norse invasions which began in the ninth century , forced a need for protection for which services were given in exchange . |
| 8 | Failure to establish guilt in the criminal court does not preclude consideration of a child 's need for protection in which the child 's welfare will be paramount . |
| 9 | We find a simple splitting into two states only for molecules in which there is a single halogen atom , lying on an axis of at least 3-fold symmetry . |
| 10 | As Hilary steps down as Chairman after what has proved to be a difficult and latterly sad term of office , Betty welcomed June Bascombe , who after two years as Vice-Chairman , a vantage point from which she has glimpsed what might be involved , has bravely accepted nomination as chairman and has been elected . |
| 11 | The pressure for change to which intellectuals were subjecting the government was perhaps best illustrated by the fact that on the right of the political spectrum even Mikhail Pogodin , the philosopher of Official Nationality , fell out with the authorities in the course of the war . |
| 12 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 13 | First established as a concept by the Catalan artist in 1984 when he announced that he would be donating 300 paintings and 3000 graphic works to the city of Barcelona , the Fundació was the subject of protracted negotiations with the local autonomous government and the Ministry of Culture in Madrid , which finally resulted in a handsome level of funding for building in which to house them . |
| 14 | ‘ It makes no sense to regard ministers as any longer accountable to their national parliaments for policies on which they have been outvoted in the Council of Ministers . |
| 15 | LIFESPAN treats SPRs as objects to which some sort of response must be made . |
| 16 | LIFESPAN treats SPRs as objects to which some sort of response must be made . |
| 17 | To claim that things of a certain sort exist , it might be said , is no different , truth-functionally at least , from claiming that a certain disjunction of singular propositions about entities of which the world happens to consist is true . |
| 18 | It is clear that any civilised system of law is bound to provide remedies for cases of what has been called unjust enrichment or unjust benefit , that is to prevent a man from retaining the money of or some benefit derived from another which it is against conscience that he should keep . |
| 19 | ‘ It is clear that any civilised system of law is bound to provide remedies for cases of what has been called unjust enrichment or unjust benefit , that is to prevent a man from retaining the money of or some benefit derived from another which it is against conscience that he should keep . |
| 20 | It is clear that any civilised system of law is bound to provide remedies for cases of what has been called unjust enrichment or unjust benefit , that is to prevent a man from retaining the money of or some benefit derived from another which it is against conscience that he should keep . |
| 21 | It is clear that any civilised system of law is bound to provide remedies for cases of what has been called unjust enrichment or unjust benefit , that is to prevent a man from retaining the money of or some benefit derived from another which it is against conscience that he should keep . |
| 22 | Dexter loved watching press conferences for cases with which he was involved . |
| 23 | A defence is provided in section 4(1) of the Act for cases in which ‘ it is proved that publication … is justified as being for the public good on the ground that it is in the interests of science , literature , art or learning , or other objects of general concern ’ . |
| 24 | In this connection it is worth noting that in another context , and in another part of the same Act , Parliament has made express provision for cases in which the suitability of particular accommodation is to be determined by the court in the course of ordinary litigation . |
| 25 | Rules limiting the use of evidence in trials were eased for cases in which the defendants were suspected members of organized criminal gangs . |
| 26 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 27 | Similarly , in industries with casual employment such as building in which employees lacked permanent attachment to a given employer , the union 's focus of organisation was the product or labour market rather than the individual firm . |
| 28 | Having said that , the Arts Council proposes a number of significant shifts in the allocation of funds , in which the trend is to move away from income-support schemes for artists towards what the Council has vaguely described as ‘ upgrading quality ’ . |
| 29 | In some areas of science we want to ask questions about phenomena of which children already have experience . |
| 30 | This was the miners , whom Harold Macmillan had once bracketed with the Catholic Church and the Brigade of Guards as institutions with which no Conservative government ought ever to tangle . |