Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the stable block , in which nothing had ever been stabled in Adam 's memory , was a little tower with a running fox weathervane on it and below the small pitched roof a blue clock with hands of gold . |
| 2 | ‘ The images which I like best are the ones which other people like — which have the best response . |
| 3 | He dismounted , still holding his carbine , which I saw now was an old . |
| 4 | She makes a sort of crackling noise which I 've never been able to explain : it may be contentment — or perhaps she 's asking for more . |
| 5 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 6 | Soon after hitting the water , I saw a Hurricane above me which I discovered later was Barber . |
| 7 | That 's the certificate which I regret now is with South Staffs museum at Lichfield . |
| 8 | My tapestries and books were turning into pitch-thick smoke , and the heat , from which I had hitherto been protected , it seems , by the initial surge of adrenalin through my body , now made it plain that this was the last window of opportunity for effecting a dignified , if empty-handed , exit . |
| 9 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 10 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 11 | The criticism of the argument from analogy which I gave above is due to Wittgenstein . |
| 12 | So that I think the sort of questions that are being raised here will be addressed and will be able to be put within that complex , that overall strategy which I think now is sort of pretend , it does n't exist at the moment . |
| 13 | His name is not even mentioned in the manual of literary dates with which I have just been refreshing my memory . |
| 14 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 15 | As my own thank-offering I would like to try briefly to express some thoughts on education by which I have long been troubled and to which no place , for reasons which I will show , could be more appropriate than this . |
| 16 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 17 | ‘ It was the finest organised rescue in which I have ever been involved . ’ |
| 18 | The first , about which I have mainly been talking so far , is the generality , or potential for generality , of things in the world . |
| 19 | Student asks thirty people , how long it had taken them And you draw a frequency table , which you 've just been doing there . |
| 20 | Just a poor schoolmaster who ca n't afford to keep you in the style to which you 've never been accustomed |
| 21 | The correct movements are an extension of the positioning which you have already been using to maintain the patient in the right body posture . |
| 22 | This will be the subject of a presentation , of which you have already been notified , in the Lothian Regional Chambers , Parliament Square , Edinburgh on Thursday 8 April 1993 at 11.30am . |
| 23 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 24 | THE BOUNDARY changes of 1974 gave the name of Tayside to what had been the counties of Perthshire , Kinross-shire and Angus ( which itself had once been known as Forfarshire ) , while Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire became rather drably Central . |
| 25 | I had put a point to the unions concerning long-term pay arrangements on which she had neither been informed nor consulted . |
| 26 | On Oct. 9 a special court in Lahore adjourned a hearing against her , at which she had again been present , reportedly to avoid making a ruling before the Oct. 24 elections . |
| 27 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 28 | Two weeks before the end of her trial , Winnie Mandela experienced what commentators treated as a major political setback when she was heavily defeated in elections for the national presidency of the ANC women 's league , which she had earlier been expected to win unchallenged . |
| 29 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 30 | At night , she still dreamt of the endless drugged hours she had spent jolting and rolling in the darkness of the car-boot , the hours of motion on land and sea of which she had only been dimly aware . |