Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 2 | Views about what constitutes a typical family vary . |
| 3 | The Unemployment Society is what will come about , he suggests , if we merely follow present trends and if we persist , as a society , with our present views about what constitutes a full-time permanent job . |
| 4 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 5 | Counsellors will by this stage start to form their own views about what they are hearing . |
| 6 | In the unlikely setting of an adult education evening class for would-be comics , a once-famous comedian puts forward his views about what comedy should do . |
| 7 | Parents caught in this situation need the opportunity to balance their views about what is happening and watch more carefully for the trigger to the behaviour problems . |
| 8 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 9 | So I hope hopefully this evening will be a very constructive meeting and we 'll certainly welcome your views about what you feel should be happening to the theatre or should be taken or should be taken place at the theatre , what should be on at the theatre , and er things that you feel that are n't happening at the moment . |
| 10 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 11 | Permitting management to use their discretion to run a company for the public benefit may be tantamount to encouraging them to run it according to their own moral and political views about what constitutes the public benefit . |
| 12 | Do men and women hold different views about what constitutes health ? |
| 13 | The danger has been a real one , but it has flowed entirely from distorted views about what the differences are , not from acceptance of difference as such . |
| 14 | But no transgression against Hume 's stricture is involved in pointing out that people 's views about what ought to be — their moral stance and outlook — may be directly related to certain distinctive features of their lives . |
| 15 | Most are in country areas of high amenity value which attract outsiders — anglers and tourists — with decided views about what is meant by clean water . |
| 16 | ( b ) the historian 's views about what kind of evidence is important . |
| 17 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |
| 18 | It is in fact possible to take different views about what genuinely constitutes full motion and we address this more fully in section 3.20 below , when we discuss compact disc interactive ( CD-I ) technology . |
| 19 | The bourgeoisie 's insistence on loyalty , discipline and modest contentment could not really conceal that its real views about what made workers labour were quite different . |
| 20 | Well er , the patient has his views about what |
| 21 | post traumatic stress , I have my own views about what will happen there |
| 22 | In its report , the House of Representatives natural resources committee identified former military ranges , hazardous chemical dumps and mines for which the government is potentially liable . |
| 23 | In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " . |
| 24 | A licence is that consent which , without passing any interest in the property to which it relates , merely prevents the acts for which consent is given from being wrongful . |
| 25 | This view puts the dynamic of police racism in the norms and values through which the police define their roles and legitimate their activities . |
| 26 | In this chapter we are dealing with a set of phenomena for which there is not a clearly identified name and which therefore presents different faces in different theories . |
| 27 | One possibility is to retreat to an ostensive or extensional definition , i.e. simply to provide a list of the phenomena for which a pragmatic theory must account ( cf. |
| 28 | To begin with , the reasons for which artists show together are varied . |
| 29 | The ‘ leopards and broom plants ’ , Plantagenet emblems , signify the dynastic reasons for which Henry the young king was killed , as were Rizzio and Mary 's husband Darnley centuries later . |
| 30 | Does it not add to the reasons for which they have to act , and to the considerations which may justify their authority ? |