Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 well which , or which taxi firm you 've been using
2 Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use .
3 Another child , repeatedly admitted for treatment , or whose home life preceding and following his hospital stay is characterised by family discord , may be adversely affected by the experience .
4 Redundancies have by no means been restricted to those nearing the end of their careers or whose job performance has been subject to criticism .
5 Then , when the slide is wound back fully , the bush will eject the centre , Jacobs chuck or whatever Morse taper device is fitted .
6 That 's the only definition and worth over x million pound or whatever total revenue or whatever their threshold is
7 Now the part they play in the community depending on your political statistical or whatever leisure interest viewpoint may be that you think they have n't got the combination right but that 's obviously a very subjective thing , but I think that I mean the visibility and the social responsibility implements I would have thought are two of the most important for people .
8 It was dreadful while you could n't remember what time tea break was , or what time breakfast was , or what time you were meant to line up for this , that or the other , or what time doses [ handing out medication ] was .
9 Erm , Fr if , if you look into these dreams , what very often happens is , or what people report , is that whilst they 're experiencing the , the traumatic situation , whatever it may be , being in a prison camp or something , their dreams are often fairly straightforward , they 're to do with simple wishful things like being rescued , escaping , getting .
10 This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here .
11 What the mother finally decides to do will probably result from the opinion of someone else — whether that someone is her own mother , the local midwife or whichever childcare expert happens to be in vogue at the time .
12 But in all these descriptions , as in his characters and his story lines , we are taken from the particular to the general ; we are led to see that it is not what happens that is important nor what effect action has on the people concerned , but what meaning we can extract , or guess at , from the impact on our senses and our intellect of the whole .
13 And which US president cited the sadistic and much-imitated Rambo as his favourite Saturday night video viewing ?
14 Paul 's preaching and Pauline thought constituted the ‘ deviation ’ , while Nazarean tradition — which Paul defied and which Pauline thought supplanted — was the closest thing to a ‘ pure ’ Christianity that ever existed .
15 In cases like this it is time to think carefully about which parts need perhaps to be emphasised and which part need to be toned down .
16 Turns out that that Game Genie sold by Lewis Galoob Toys Inc in the US that enables players to alter the parameters of games , and which Nintendo Co failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to declare illegal ( CI No 2,135 ) , is a British product : according to the Mail on Sunday , the thing comes from Codemasters Software Ltd of Leamington Spa , whose share of the $15m award to Lewis Galoob came to $3.4m ; Codemasters now has sights on Japan .
17 But Fred finds it hard to take a ‘ line ’ on anything , from pets to ethical shopping and which TV programme to watch .
18 The nature of the code ( that is , for example , that GGC codes for glycine ) depends entirely on which anticodon and which attachment site occur together on a tRNA molecule .
19 Which are zero sum and which nonzero sum ?
20 ‘ I telephoned the coastguard and port authority on Friday night to inform them of the event , start times and which VHF frequency we would be using .
21 The report will outline what the microcomputer is to be used for and which microcomputer hardware and software will be needed .
22 Somehow a Sovbloc politician can corner ninety-nine per cent of the vote without everybody having to know the name of his dog and which football team he supports . ’
23 It can offer advice on publications to concentrate upon for the member or officer whose interest is either general or specific and whose reading time may be limited .
24 A number of undergraduates were men in their mid-twenties who had served in the war and whose university education had therefore been deferred .
25 But there was another side , marked by loyalty to the college which he had attended as an undergraduate ( he received his BA from Bowdoin in 1958 ) and whose history faculty he joined after his return from Oxford .
26 SQUEAKY voiced Lene Lovich , who hit the pop charts 13 years ago with a bizarre song called Lucky Number and whose dancing debut three years later , as Mata Hari , was received less kindly , is pursuing a third career — as a novelist .
27 That January issue was the ‘ Revolutionary Oz ’ , complete with Quattrocchi on the Russian Revolution ; Widgery on the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara , who had been killed the previous October in the Bolivian jungle , and whose name Widgery and Oz spelt throughout as ‘ Geuvara ’ ; and even John Wilcock , whose ‘ Other scenes ’ reappeared in that issue , put in a piece on Regis Debray .
28 Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) .
29 March 1989 saw the formal appointment of a coordinator for home-school liaison officers and bilingual support assistants , who was to be responsible to ‘ the appropriate adviser in the Primary Division ’ and whose job description listed eight major duties including close liaison with the schools involved in the two projects , cooperation with heads to provide a positive and coherent service , and attendance at appropriate working parties and committees ‘ as agreed with the Primary Adviser ’ .
30 The Islamic Republic of Mauritania , formerly part of French West Africa , gained full independence in 1960 and has been ruled since a military coup in 1978 by a Military Council of National Salvation ( Comité militaire de salut national — CMSN ) , headed by a chairman ( currently Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya ) who is President of the Republic and whose executive power derives from a Constitutional Charter published in 1978 .
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