Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [noun] be [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 2 | Another famous composer was an early tenth-century bishop of Liège called Stephen , some of whose chants are first found in compilations of the monastery of St Gall . |
| 3 | But , in addition , the muscles and tendons have a mechanism whereby they join up with whatever element is next to them . |
| 4 | He dies lying across his brother 's body , a complicated split screen effect in which Irons was first Elliot , sprawled half-sitting against the wall with a stand-in across his lap , and then Beverly lying in exactly the same position as the stand-in for a matte shot to be inserted in the first image . |
| 5 | What did the delegates think when they composed that Gogolian policy of assessment in which results are first faked and then suppressed ? |
| 6 | It is designed to watch the life of an application continuously , and when it detects that the application has crashed or hung , it recovers that application at an initial internal state or at the point at which data was last saved . |
| 7 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |