Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early stages of the rise of Venice arc obscure and ill-documented ; but when it comes into the light of day it is ruled already by a duke or doge popularly elected , yet normally chosen from , and dependent on , the great families of the Rialto , the chief island of the archipelago on which Venice is crazily and romantically constructed . |
| 2 | A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons , which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to . |
| 3 | Mary MacArthur spoke in defence of married women 's high sickness claims to the Departmental Committee on National Health Insurance in 1914 , but she still feared that any improvement respecting their position under the scheme would ‘ discriminate in favour of the wage-earning woman as against her uninsured sister , whose need is often as great , [ and ] will result in a State premium on the industrial employment of married women ’ . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true . |
| 5 | In the autumn , the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus , Ohio will present ‘ Re Visions ’ , a show of new works by ‘ six outstanding mid-career artists of colour who have established a mature body of work and whose art is expressively and politically charged ’ . |
| 6 | There is in many police forces a group or section whose role is entirely and explicitly political . |
| 7 | THIS record of televised interviews leaves the impression that psychology bears an uncanny resemblance to its next of kin , the deity , described in a venerable formula as ‘ a sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere ’ . |
| 8 | Here Nuer theology seems to echo the thoughts of the ancient Sicilian philosopher Empedocles who spoke of god as ‘ a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere ’ . |
| 9 | If screams do not cause a single person to react , what hope is there that a small , silent television screen in a bank of twenty-one such screens will be more effective ? |
| 10 | But what alternative is there if you are unknown to a potential employer ? |
| 11 | Suppose what Sun is really after with Solaris-on-Intel are all those juicy Intel sites where Sun 's aim is really to dislodge Intel with a lever like low-cost Tsunami . |
| 12 | But what evidence is there that this bit of the cortex is concerned with the reception of sound ? |
| 13 | And indeed what evidence is there that Sicily as a physical presence , a quite insistent presence as generations of travellers have found it , ever modified Pound 's sensibility in the least ? |
| 14 | An editorial in The Times , a firm supporter of Thatcherite policies , could ask on 3 May 1985 : ‘ If these obstructions to a society , based on enterprise and shorn of its collectivist illusions , can not be dismantled in six years , what evidence is there that twelve years will be any better ? ’ |
| 15 | What evidence is there that these overt policies and covert assumptions have outlived the political and economic structures which brought them into being ? |
| 16 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 17 | But what evidence is there that babies acquire social knowledge and that their behaviour to other people is qualitatively different from their behaviour to inanimate objects ? |
| 18 | What chance is there that a start on such a package could be made in the near future ? |
| 19 | If a student is to study a number of different subjects or courses , what guarantee is there that they will all come together and form a coherent whole ? |
| 20 | For what guarantee is there that it does so objectively ? |
| 21 | The two are in internal relation to one another : views of design imply notions as to what design is socially and vice versa . |