Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ways in which cases came to be closed are therefore reviewed below . |
| 2 | Adverse movement in either would lessen the number of hours which could be taken as play , but still would not dictate precisely which hours had to be worked . |
| 3 | Our thinking on mental hospitals has been strongly influenced by studies in which researchers pretended to be mentally ill , and in a television programme broadcast last week in Britain a reporter pretended to be homeless and schizophrenic to illustrate the bleak reality of being mentally ill and homeless ( p 726 ) . |
| 4 | Surrealist écriture automatique , grounded in a Freudian unconscious structured through free association and perceptual memories , presented vision itself as a written form , a ‘ cursive ’ rather than a discursive flow , which Breton understood to be , not representational , but immediate . |
| 5 | Or would he cautiously hold his hand , there in the East March , as he had done before Perth , until he saw which side seemed to be winning , and then join it ? |
| 6 | Modern industrial society with its superior ‘ organic ’ solidarity could dispense with these primitive aids to cohesion and develop the more civilized , less emotional and , above all , rational legal processes which Durkheim took to be characteristic of progress . |
| 7 | Whose was this voice which Molly found to be both bossy and patronizing ? |
| 8 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |
| 9 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 10 | The nervous neighbour peeped around her door to ask if everything was all right , which Rain took to be a reprimand about the noise . |
| 11 | This leaves the common law of conspiracy under which prosecutions continued to be brought while the acts were in force . |
| 12 | During the hearings the government had published , through the high commission , a series of press advertisements relating to the case which Jeyaretnam held to be defamatory . |
| 13 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 14 | It is this concept which ISS held to be fundamental to increasing the commitment and achievement of pupils who now underachieve , especially many working-class pupils . |
| 15 | Growth in the Information Services sector , which Broadview noted to be stabilising and benefiting from the cost cutting implemented in 1991/2 , was driven primarily by the Software and Services segments . |
| 16 | Generosity , affability and an overwhelming fondness for the sound of his own voice : these characteristics , founded on a ready wit and a gargantuan appetite , created a superficial impression of warmth and worldliness which Harry took to be typical of an upper crust Home Counties hotelier . |
| 17 | Glancing through a file ( which Harry took to be Heather 's ) with the pursed lips and darting eyes of an auditor perusing an unsatisfactory set of accounts , he conveyed none of the warmth or insight which Harry supposed successful psychoanalysis to require . |
| 18 | Flashes of light in the forest , which Julien assumed to be stars low in the sky , prove to be the eyes of watching beasts : wild cats , squirrels , owls , parrots and monkeys . |
| 19 | There was much less to be known about the broader background against which policy had to be made . |
| 20 | As in the 1920s , Morocco provided the scenario in which Franco appeared to be endowed with a special mix of luck and divine protection — baraka as his Moroccan soldiers called it . |
| 21 | The consensus so far is that the expectations which people came with were fulfilled and that the weekend was most worthwhile providing a lot of new ideas and giving support and encouragement as well . |
| 22 | Even less did he like the way in which people continued to be taken in by him . |
| 23 | Rather than disturb the patients at the hospital any more , Ace and Petion had followed the Marines to their staging area at the customs receivership , which Ace judged to be about the size of an aircraft hangar . |
| 24 | Shatterer of Worlds , by Peter Goodchild ( BBC Publications , 1980 ) , which Bethe considered to be misleading in its account of the development of the Super . |
| 25 | Instead , there would be a set of lexical rules indicating which affix had to be added to produce each inflected form . |
| 26 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 27 | For some , however , the implications went much further : they appeared to remove altogether the need to regard reading as something new and potentially hard to master — as an activity to which children had to be introduced in carefully planned ways with thoughtfully constructed material . |
| 28 | For some years the DES collected statistics from LEAs in which children had to be classified into these three headings . |
| 29 | There were a number of attacks during January by right-wing extremist groups , which police believed to be part of a protest campaign against CODESA . |
| 30 | Similarly , for Boyle , there was a sense in which matter had to be divested of spirits and other inherent powers in order to be seen in proper spiritual light . |