Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reservoir behind it , Lake Powell ( or ‘ Lake Foul ’ as it is called by environmentalists , who think it dishonours his name ) flooded 186 miles of Grand Canyon , which Powell and others who saw it described as the most beautiful of all the West 's river canyons . |
| 2 | 8 State which properties and/or accessories you would use in displays of the following merchandise to create an appropriate atmosphere : |
| 3 | Treaty did not apply to the fundamental right possessed by each state under international law freely to decide to which persons or vessels it would or would not grant its nationality . |
| 4 | Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ? |
| 5 | The general advantage of asset sales over share sales is that the purchaser can be selective as to which assets and liabilities he buys or assumes . |
| 6 | You get to choose your holiday destination and departure date , we get to choose which hotel or apartment you stay in ( all of them will be near the main attraction of the resort centre ) , and you get to make big savings . |
| 7 | All Club guests staying in Club Choice accommodation benefit from the following FREEBIES — beach bag , beach mats , T-shirt , pen & postcards , a bottle of wine in your room and a grocery pack in self-catering apartments … plus even more goodies depending which hotel or apartment you choose ! |
| 8 | It will provide you with a clue to which country and city you are currently in . |
| 9 | How blessed you are to live in such a lovely part of England — It is a source of IMMENSE pleasure to me that JONATHAN is such a keen mountaineer and is to make his home here — it will be nice for John in his old age if he , John , deigns to come back to Britain , the native land of which is so very critical , but to whose change or improvement he does what ? ? ? ? |
| 10 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 11 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 12 | They should also notify the child , if he is of sufficient understanding , and anyone else whose wishes and feelings they consider to be relevant . |
| 13 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 14 | Each boxing match , Sartre claims , must be both a unique event and also in some sense the incarnation of all boxing , whose rules and conventions it follows , and whose past and future history it sets itself against . |
| 15 | Data Protection : as a service to readers , we occasionally make dispatch lists available to carefully screened companies whose products or services we feel may be of interest . |
| 16 | Choose a business in your area which interests you and about whose products or services you would like to know more . |
| 17 | Much of the theoretical literature in company law treats property rights as though they were unproblematical ; they are the unquestioned starting points of analysis rather than artifacts whose existence and distribution themselves demand justification . |
| 18 | He could not get on with the believing Jews from Eastern Europe whose religion and traditions he neither shared nor understood . |
| 19 | Sport is a positive , exhilarating force in the lives of those whose attentions and commitments it commands ; but the complexity of the force is sometimes lost on its practitioners and observers . |
| 20 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 21 | They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julia said with an expression on her face that he could not quite read , ‘ but the law is the law and one ca n't decide to apply it only to those whose motives and characters one dislikes . |
| 23 | But behind this victimised female self , whose actions and desires are assumed to be not truly ‘ her own ’ , since they derive from processes of force , conditioning or psychological manipulation , there is seen to be an authentic female self , whose recovery or discovery it is one of the aims of feminism to achieve . |
| 24 | ‘ That is another and quite separate development , whose importance and urgency I need hardly stress . |
| 25 | In return I was trying to grasp the basics of Swedish , whose inflexions and vocabulary I found hard to manage . |
| 26 | In support of the proprietary argument the plaintiffs resorted to an analogy with the position of a trustee in bankruptcy , whose right and duty it was to get in everything which had been owned by the bankrupt , including his business documents . |
| 27 | They will say : ‘ From this time forward under God ( the reference to God is optional ) I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people , whose democratic beliefs I share , whose rights and liberties I respect , and whose laws I will uphold and obey . ’ |
| 28 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 29 | Unfortunately Freud 's evidence for his propositions was somewhat indirect , being derived from the ‘ memories ’ of adult patients , whose difficulties and characteristics he believed could best be accounted for by the libidinal theory . |
| 30 | It will come as no surprise to the Minister to hear that we have always taken the view that safety representatives are at their best when backed by a trade union , of whose resources and training they are able to take advantage . |