Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the sorts of objectives that er these wars are concerned with er may be control over resources , over particular minerals , control over markets con control over trade the acquisition of territory or the recovery of lost territory and ideological or political objectives , objectives which are strictly speaking er to do with the belief system which predominates in particular states or where there 's a conflict between states er which have radically conflicting er ideologies . |
| 2 | People had no option but to sit on desks or wherever they could find behind the counter . |
| 3 | This tells you whether you 're generating money for shareholders or where they consume you . |
| 4 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 5 | The mirror was broken and she hated the casual glimpses she got of her face as she cleaned her teeth or when she passed the hall-stand . |
| 6 | Use your mirrors , on narrow or winding roads or where there is a lot of oncoming traffic , drivers of large or slow moving vehicles should be prepared to pull in and slow down to stop as soon as there is suitable opportunity , well , before you take off or turn left or turn right , or slow down or stop , use your mirrors , you should always look behind even if they 're none , a motor cycle should always look behind either , then give the appropriate signal if necessary , remember the routine |
| 7 | ‘ We do n't know why there are these remissions or why it strikes again . |
| 8 | believers and how they er it 's it 's really to counteract the false teaching and how they should leave their lives together . |
| 9 | The essence of what the popes required of the emperors and how they saw the imperial office is enshrined in the imperial oaths taken at the time of coronation and in the prayer at the conferment of the sword . |
| 10 | They recalled almost in totality everything I had written , the people I had interviewed , the story of the vast corruption in New York 's building trades and how it affected the construction of their monumental World Financial Centre on the Hudson . |
| 11 | Yes , Chairman , can I say that erm , when the b the budget 's in the process of formulation and we 're discussing the question of balances and reserves and how they should be marked for the immediate future , particularly in regard to the way that er , reorganization may take place at police authorities in the very near future , and also those of us who are on this , on , on other committees who 've had experience in , and the same sort of thing happening in further education for instance , where immediately the assets , before even the regulations were put on the table , the assets of all these things were , all these er , erm , coll the further education colleges were frozen so we could n't do anything with them at all as an Authority , and er , actually many of them were taken from us without er , without any question at all . |
| 12 | Would it not be a good idea , given the suggestion that all these shady capitalist things happen on only one side of the House , to discuss pension funds and how they are to be controlled ? |
| 13 | Can now , can we actually move on a bit because , that has been very valuable what you said , but in fairness to Mr Maxwell it also has to be said does n't it that up until he stole these assets er this process of throwing organisations , peoples monies into a spin dryer and pulling them out of different sort of sequences was something he regularly did and we 've had witnesses to say how well he did manage the funds and how they grew , whether when they should sell stock and when they should n't sell stock and so on . |
| 14 | You are usually given problems in advance , and will be asked to give your solutions and how you arrived at them . |
| 15 | Both schools of thought contain writers of diverse views , but to oversimplify , the former broadly can be characterized as writers who focus on the economic behaviour of members of households and families as the key to understanding family relationships and how they change . |
| 16 | It was at that point that Edward recalled the constable 's other words and how they had troubled him even then — seeming to carry a sinister note , a warning . |
| 17 | Indeed the closer one focuses attention on the words and how they are made up , the less likely one is to understand what the passage is about . |
| 18 | I thought very carefully about words and how you made them . |
| 19 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |
| 20 | synthesizers and how they work |
| 21 | This concept refers to the way ideology covers up contradictions and how it legitimizes by treating human social relations as things . |
| 22 | We see the move from monophonic to polyphonic practice and the changes in the musical and poetic styles and how they affected the size of the performing forces . |
| 23 | We do not know yet what causes a cell to become cancerous but scientists believe that most causes are linked with our environments and how we live . |
| 24 | The best way to look at it is as a examining the size of bricks and how they would be affected if that happened |
| 25 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 26 | It is these roles and how they were established that 1 shall describe in this chapter . |
| 27 | The answer is likely to be more predictable if they are continuously kept informed of what the head and governors are seeking from other local schools and how they assess their own school 's effectiveness . |
| 28 | The method of preparation of the remedies and how they act is not essential to an understanding of Homoeopathy . |
| 29 | It was not at all clear at his accession how far the new king would pursue Offa 's policies nor how he would deal with the Carolingians . |
| 30 | Despite the findings of the Dragon Project and other workers over the years , it is still too early to be at all dogmatic as to the nature of the energies at ancient sites or how they might operate . |