Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's time by the minus one , which bit 's on top ? |
| 2 | Over the years we did n't have quite so much work to do with recording which tyre was on which bus because he took it over , but it was right up until I retired in , well five years ago that we were paying tyres that way . |
| 3 | So , for that matter , does the glum look on the face of Charlemagne , whose statue is on the south tower . |
| 4 | This was Michael Ramsey 's first meeting with Eric Milner-White , whom he later came to regard as one of the big men in his life and whose photograph was on his wall when he died . |
| 5 | In view of the contemporary architects whose work is on display beside Ruskin 's , it will be interesting to see in which style the projected Ruskin Library is built . |
| 6 | Jennifer Flay provokes the eye and ear alike : after Claus Closky , Jean-Jacques Rullier and Xavier Veilhan , whose work is on show until 17 October , the gallery will be displaying a sound installation by the leading US experimental musician Christian Marclay , and sound sculptures by France 's Marylène Negro . |
| 7 | A motorist who went to the aid of a lorry driver whose vehicle was on fire has been killed by another vehicle which hit them from behind . |
| 8 | For a boatman whose home was on the river , the pub was not only a social centre but a base where goods could be left , messages collected and horses stabled . |
| 9 | Mr Richardson , whose home was on The Promenade , Llanfairfechan , had been at the Old Court for six months because his wife was in hospital . |
| 10 | Whose picture was on the smallest stamp ? |
| 11 | The agenda might be termed ‘ classical ’ in the sense that it addresses problems raised by Idealism , Realism , and other approaches whose focus is on the state as the crucial unit in the international system . |
| 12 | But Ember was saying with a quiet despair of his own , ‘ Or maybe chop a little off his brain to grow some cortex material for a rich man whose head 's on fire with cancer . |
| 13 | Several Serbian leaders who had remained loyal to their Turkish masters were savagely butchered , including Glavaš , whose head was on display in the Kalemegdan fortress when Miloš went to a conference of the knezovi called by Süleiman Pasha . |
| 14 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 15 | But the man whose name was on the cheque was well known all over London for his kind and generous acts . |
| 16 | Moldan , whose name was on the StB register although he had not been an agent , admitted to meeting with StB agents but declared that " in the conditions in Czechoslovakia at that time it never crossed by mind that I could refuse " . |
| 17 | Both sides now were in need of respite ; peace endured until 1369 when the French , refreshed and led by a new and able young monarch , Charles V , confronted the English whose king was on the verge of senility and whose government was divided . |
| 18 | ‘ He did it like a decent horse , and is still improving , ’ said Nicholson , whose career is on the crest of a wave at present . |
| 19 | Some 19 million people are being exposed to air whose quality is on the verge of falling below recommended EC safety levels . |
| 20 | Trainer Ian Duncan , whose stable is on the shores of Lough Neagh , was also scoring his first win in this historic race although he had gone close when Camlin River was beaten by Phillipinetown Lad a few years ago . |
| 21 | When you failed to rouse Sir Thomas you went for Sir Richard whose chamber is on the adjoining passageway . |
| 22 | The tapes and conversation details will all become completely anonymous no one will know who 's used the words or whose voice are on the tapes together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language is spoken in the nineteen nineties we 'll go down in posterity , eh ? |
| 23 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 24 | Mix er I 'm not sure what mix is on this one . |
| 25 | Translated as what football 's on the te television this afternoon . |
| 26 | Er , whatever price is on there less your discount terms of twenty percent . |
| 27 | The respondent having in June , 1882 , taken out a summons for leave to proceed on the judgment , an issue was directed to be tried between the respondent as plaintiff and the appellant as defendant whether any and what amount was on July 1 , 1882 , due upon the judgment . |
| 28 | But what number 's on the other one ? |
| 29 | What time 's on a Saturday then ? |
| 30 | What value was on the blue stamp ? |