Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood .
2 They are not indeed , like proper names , unmeaning ; for the words sensation of white signify , that the sensation which I so denominate resembles other sensations which I remember to have had before , and to have called by that name .
3 there is a further letter from R Jasper More and one from a local person which I hope to have published in the next Journal .
4 It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy .
5 As I pick up my jacket from the Sarson 's Malt Vinegar box which I seem to have appointed as coat-rack , I pull the lid up with it .
6 I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college .
7 I do n't think it 's quite once a week cos the weekend which means you have quite a big build up on a Monday which you want to get rid of .
8 For instance , dispersal patterns of the continents following the break-up of Pangaea show that the now separate continents have been moving away from Africa , which itself appears to have remained relatively stationary .
9 On the other hand , Mrs Thatcher was wont to see in the Delors Charter the kind of creeping state socialism and patronage of the trade unions which she hoped to have dispelled in Britain itself .
10 Tiny little thing that he is ! ’ ) has faded out of her life as smoothly as he shimmered in and left her a Cartier pen which she seems to have mislaid .
11 Ruether , who is by training a historian , and politically of left-wing convictions , quickly comes simply to embark on a description of certain threads which she believes to have run through history .
12 The dead man 's sister , Sara Glynn , has made a fresh statement in which she claims to have seen her brother , Alfred , leaving the scene shortly after the time at which Matthew must have died . ’
13 What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us .
14 We also wish to hear staff views on the sorts of services which they wish to see provided .
15 Every northern town , they say , is under their control except Mosul , which they claim to have surrounded .
16 In the latest incident , on July 10 , six policemen , part of an allegedly drunken patrol , were arrested and charged with the murder of 17 passengers after shooting down a civilian aircraft , which they claimed to have mistaken for a drug smuggling plane , as it took off from Bellavista , 800 km to the north-west of the capital Lima .
17 the extent to which they claimed to have felt personally threatened by the review ;
18 The Duma defied the Tsar , who suspended them , and formed a government , which they declared to have taken over all power in Russia .
19 To many , the world in which they appear to have lived seems to have been distanced from reality .
20 The simplest are fine earth spots , which stand out like molehills on a lawn and are often defined by rings of large pebbles or stones , which they appear to have shouldered aside .
21 Now many commentators have found it not entirely clear what Locke has in mind and I 'm puzzled by erm the confusion into which they seem to have fallen .
22 We had a few concluding words about the literary scene in London , which he thought to have reached a pretty low ebb .
23 Besides bringing the Davidia into cultivation , his greatest introduction was perhaps Lilium regale , the most widely cultivated lily in the USA , nearly 7000 bulbs of which he arranged to have imported in 1910 .
24 A hunter turned safari operator , Oskar Koenig , describes a ceremony he calls the Festival of Love which he purports to have witnessed : ‘ One of the young men knelt by the cowhide near a hole in the ground , which , as I knew , was meant to resemble the vagina .
25 FORMER Armagh captain Jimmy Smyth has a two-fold ambition which he hopes to see fulfilled within the next ten days .
26 Scriptural authority was a further resource in his assault on Aristotelian philosophy , for there was no reference in Genesis to the creation of fire , which he wished to see excised from the elements .
27 In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England .
28 In sum , Johnson falls victim to the same snare which he saw to have trapped his predecessors .
29 In fact , he identifies two theoretical questions to which he seemed to have assumed answers in his earlier paper : ( 1 ) Why do teachers change , or fail to change ? ( 2 ) How do teachers learn ?
30 In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate .
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