Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Helen gave a talk about her work , but there was one subject about life in a space capsule which everyone seemed curious about , and which Helen duly explained : |
| 32 | It is a light , fluffy effort in which everyone says exactly what 's on their minds at all times . |
| 33 | For , so he elaborately argues , one can not , if one really thinks it through , accept the total set of prescriptions implied by any universal ethical rules except those which attach weight , in proportion to their strength , to the desirability of satisfying the desires which everyone affected by an action would have if they possessed proper prudence . |
| 34 | One of the first was the Camattini family , who left La Spezia , the great port and naval base on the Ligurian Sea which everyone expected to be bombarded by the British Fleet . |
| 35 | This is a collective ritual in which everyone plays a part . |
| 36 | You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side . |
| 37 | When a woman went into a hair salon 30-odd years ago , her hair was painstakingly rolled rigid with sticky spray to create a standard style which everyone wore , regardless of age . |
| 38 | And it 's not just in this country that memories of a Britain in which everyone wore a vest , ate toasted crumpets for tea and never went out without a hat that these programmes are appreciated . |
| 39 | The error lay in a very simple but quite reasonable assumption which everyone made . |
| 40 | As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky . |
| 41 | The old G201 grade , which everyone thought had had its day , has become a clear success ! |
| 42 | The ham , which everyone ate avidly , and which Sally-Anne forced down , was off and the butter was so rancid that she almost choked over it . |
| 43 | He always stands strategically in corners at parties or similar wasteful gatherings of the wasted , his glass tilted in his hand , his broad back against the wall , talking all the while in those low , resonant yet rather monotonous tones which everyone listens to with a sniggery sort of attention . |
| 44 | It set West Indies a target of 225 , which everyone knew was about three hundred too low , and inevitably Greenidge and Haynes began with a century partnership . |
| 45 | There was in fact retaliation in any case , and it might even be argued that this silence on the part of the radio — which everyone knew to be under government control — actually encouraged angry Luos to believe that a Kikuyu conspiracy existed within the Government . |
| 46 | Consider , for example , the introduction and successful operation of the wide bodied jets which everyone takes for granted today . |
| 47 | He delivered a sermon during which everyone stood still , until he picked up a handful of earth and spoke in a deep voice : ‘ Ashes to ashes . |
| 48 | True art and architecture collaboration is a process in which everyone has to define his own limits . |
| 49 | Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ? |
| 50 | That every person is an end in himself or herself is related to the fact that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , something which everyone has the potential to be , whatever talents or gifts of fortune they may or may not possess . |
| 51 | Protagoras ' reply to this is to contend that political wisdom is not a matter of specialized knowledge , but something in which everyone has a share , and in which it is necessary that everyone has a share , " Otherwise the state could not exist " . |
| 52 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 53 | I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different . |
| 54 | That is why schools increasingly take immense amounts of classroom time to work their way through rule systems with children , so that the end result is a matter of agreement , towards which everyone has contributed and on which everyone has agreed . |
| 55 | That is why schools increasingly take immense amounts of classroom time to work their way through rule systems with children , so that the end result is a matter of agreement , towards which everyone has contributed and on which everyone has agreed . |
| 56 | Besides , my fondness for your personal graces and that genteel from which everyone admires … |
| 57 | For Karen , though , good sex was just one of the amenities to which everyone aspired . |
| 58 | But it is by no means true that an ad which everyone notices is necessarily good — it may be noticed for reasons which are totally irrelevant to the strategy . |
| 59 | Mr Vernon added that the fund raisers highest recompense would perhaps come when they heard the citations read for the gallantry medals to be awarded that afternoon , there being no better proof of the importance to the Institution for which everyone worked so willingly . |
| 60 | When the syllabus was referred to , it was the content objectives to which everyone referred ; the process objectives were for the most part ignored . |