Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] be [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was relatively successful and after three or four months moved into the Criminal Investigation Department , as a detective constable , pursuing local villains for the thefts , shopbreakings , burglaries , and petty frauds which were our bread and butter . |
| 2 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
| 3 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 4 | The geometrical part of that framework is demonstrable because , says Hobbes , the geometrical shapes which are its objects can be created by ourselves . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the number of crimes committed in 1991 . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are his Department 's plans to maximise the number of people on the 1992-93 electoral register ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is his estimate of overseas earnings by the United Kingdom electronics industry in 1979 and 1991 . |
| 8 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what is his estimate of the number and value of reserve collections in the public sector ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 9 | Superintendent what was your response or your initial reaction to that information ? |
| 10 | Of the remainder which is what Simon er twelve thousand dwellings , the County Council has made no specific on what proportion will be provided through conversions or through windfall sites or small sites . |
| 11 | By nature , and before he went to Ireland , whose problems affected the characters and ruined the careers of many another English administrator before and since , Jeremy Taylor was a very humane man , and it may be appropriate to leave him by quoting a story which was his conclusion to The Liberty of Prophesying : |
| 12 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 13 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 14 | well you did because your , straight away you go onto money which is our God is n't it ? |
| 15 | Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth . |
| 16 | Her death , and the pain it wrought in him , now generated the work which was his memorial to their youthful love . |
| 17 | But it could also mean the even more staggering truth that the saints are God 's inheritance , and pose the question to what extent he-is allowed the freehold of that inheritance which is our lives . |
| 18 | His consultations were conducted fortissimo and his guffaws echoed through the hall which was his waiting room , lined with an interested audience , and out into the street : ‘ BEEN TO ITALY ? |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is his estimate of the value of inward investment in Northern Ireland since 1979 . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate of the value of grants under section 4 of the Development of Tourism Act 1969 in the current year ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 21 | It 's the lady what 's your name again ? |
| 22 | Simon what 's his name Steven Steve . |
| 23 | Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth . |
| 24 | The first is the Holy Spirit , and the second is the Bible which is his tool . |
| 25 | His argumentation is diminished and made much less coherent through successive drafts of the novel , while the sheer rattle or patter of those smooth large grains which are his discourse gets carefully worked up . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , like everyone else we wonder how we can ever afford to replace the time expired capital equipment and infrastructure which was our legacy from the past 20 years of neglect . |
| 27 | It was a rock ‘ n ’ roll record which is my kind of music . |
| 28 | We must touch , by communion , the vital point of poverty which is its mysticism . |
| 29 | We are both pulling off into Polo Park , a large two-storey shopping mall which is our city 's pleasure palace of conspicuous consumption . |
| 30 | Nearby places to visit include the Lingholm Gardens , Carlisle Castle built in 1092 to watch over England 's border with Scotland , and Wordsworth 's house in Cockermouth which was his birthplace and houses some of his personal effects . |