Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We knew nothing about what sort of paper to buy , we just tried to learn from books . |
| 2 | landscape evaluation studies neither ascertain landscape tastes nor assess public preferences ; they tell us nothing about what landscapes the public values or why . |
| 3 | ‘ You clearly knew nothing about what Jeff and Silvia were up to . |
| 4 | it tells us nothing about which departments or chief officers might be more important than others ; |
| 5 | If the bereaved is your mother-in-law you have the problem of trying to help someone with whose personality and reactions you may not be entirely familiar ; but you will have the advantage of being able to remain a little more detached from the throbbing centre of her pain and therefore freer to be objective in the help you give her , without in any way reducing the flow of sympathy and affection she will hope to receive from you . |
| 6 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 7 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 8 | Of course if they can find someone on whose sympathy to play , someone who will pay one hundred or perhaps one hundred and fifty pounds then so much the better for them . |
| 9 | He held out his ID ; it showed nothing of what unit or corps he belonged to . |
| 10 | On the same day , knowing nothing of what Fisher was doing , Ramsey drove to Bishopthorpe outside York to see his frail and dying archbishop . |
| 11 | ‘ You know nothing of what Julius really wants from his wife . |
| 12 | ‘ We know that these murderers are an assault on everyone of whatever denomination who claim Christ as their inspiration , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 14 | In practice the majority of investment trust assets are held in quoted company securities , although they are also free to invest in property and trade in currency options and futures , none of which unit trusts are permitted to do . |
| 15 | He did indeed now produce a great quantity of religious verse , none of which critics of any period have found of the quality of his two famous early hymns ; his long epic poem Edmund has passages of almost embarrassing bathos . |
| 16 | There are , however , only three established centres , none of which Wartaputra considered suitable . |
| 17 | Mick asked many questions about Tony 's car , none of which Anne could answer . |
| 18 | Jezrael 's unblinking eyes grew hot and itchy with tears for Chesarynth , for all that her sister had meant to her of protection and sharing — none of which Jezrael had ever said . |
| 19 | Next morning the post strike ended , bringing five letters from Daisy , none of which Perdita opened . |
| 20 | Even in Spain , none of whose rulers had any pretension to military ability , royal interest of this kind can be seen in the frequency with which military uniforms were remodelled under Charles III and Charles IV . |
| 21 | The duke immediately saw an opportunity to improve relations with the powerful Buchanan family , none of whose members were of great wealth , but several of whom were freeholders in Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire . |
| 22 | Following a time-honoured tradition of psychiatric categories , she elaborates the ‘ bereavement response ’ to diagnosis into a farrago of stages ( none of whose terms , as far as I can make out , has ever been defined ) : ( 1 ) ‘ Shock ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ panic ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Denial ’ , ( 4 ) ‘ Grief ’ , ( 5 ) ‘ Guilt ’ , ( 6 ) ‘ Anger ’ ( in general ) , ( 7 ) ‘ Anger Against professionals ’ , ( 8 ) ‘ Bargaining ’ and finally ( 9 ) ‘ Acceptance ’ . |
| 23 | In the case of a firm in private practice such solicitor may be a principal , employee or consultant of the firm , provided that the firm must have at least one principal who is a solicitor who has been admitted for at least three years , or alternatively , in the case of a firm none of whose principals exercise any right of audience or right to conduct litigation or supervise or assume responsibility for the exercise of any such right , a foreign lawyer who has been qualified in his or her own jurisdiction for at least three years ; |
| 24 | ( 2 ) in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule , ‘ principals ’ shall be construed , except in relation to a firm none of whose principals exercise any right of audience or right to conduct litigation or supervise or assume responsibility for the exercise of any such right , as referring to principals who are solicitors ; and |
| 25 | Then , on April 9 , he commended a group , none of whose names was included in the Press release , called who suggested that the industry should set up a body to be more pro-active and dynamic in the promotion of food products . |
| 26 | The obscure Boso , an alumnus of the monastic school at Regensburg , looks like the perfect exemplar of everything for which Alcuin had argued . |
| 27 | Actually , I believe that the marriage rule applies only to women , which says something for what marriage is supposed to do for them , but on that sunny Tuesday afternoon neither of the disqualifying conditions applied to me . |
| 28 | This is something for which teachers need preparation . |
| 29 | Also , they were perhaps inclined to adopt the world view of their respondents at the expense of other perspectives ( such as those of young women for example ) — something for which ethnographers are often criticised . |
| 30 | What we are fighting for is something for which Jesus himself took time out to pray for on the night he was betrayed : the unity of believers . |