Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | The geometrical part of that framework is demonstrable because , says Hobbes , the geometrical shapes which are its objects can be created by ourselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Locke 's distinction between complex ideas , and the simple ideas which are their component parts , copes with this . |
| 9 | Quorum , the other Mac-on-Unix pioneer , maintains that market research indicates that users are not interested in having a second platform on their machines which is what Apple is essentially proposing to do but would rather have their Mac apps available under Motif as Quorum 's products offer . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are Her Majesty 's Government 's principal goals during the United Kingdom presidency of the EC . |
| 11 | Read the publications which are your target . |
| 12 | Centuries ago they created torsion powered and counter-weighted devices which are their equivalent of cannons , perfecting them to such a degree that they are in many ways superior to crude gunpowder weapons . |
| 13 | It overflows with bubbles which are our thoughts . |
| 14 | Sales of assets ( other than assets which are themselves FSA ‘ Investments ’ ) are thus excluded . |
| 15 | Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses . |
| 16 | That means that , in effect , the Bill will steal from pensioners what is their due . |
| 17 | When the big day finally arrives , remember there are some tasks which are your responsibility . |
| 18 | The debate over the owl , and the forests which are its home , has raged between the timber industry and environmentalists since the owl was listed as an endangered species in 1990 [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 19 | President Bush 's administration has revealed its plan to save the Pacific Northwest 's spotted owl , and thereby some of the " old growth " forests which are its homeland . |
| 20 | She opened the double rear doors and pointed out the two forty-five-gallon tanks which were her emergency supply if an airport closed down on her . |