Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ These 'ere smugglers is a dangerous bunch from wot I 've 'eard ! ’ |
2 | Know wot I mean ? ’ |
3 | Thass wot I call livin' if you mus ' know . |
4 | ‘ That was n't w-hat I meant , ’ Nogai protested . |
5 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
6 | I saw several brand new technical institutes , complete with Japanese-equipped language laboratories , which no-one knew how to use , and libraries stacked with scientific books . |
7 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
8 | Which no-one escapes from ; |
9 | I have shaken hands with a great many friends , but there are some things I want to know which no-one seems able to explain . |
10 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
11 | Do not keep saying to yourself ‘ But how can it be like that ? ’ because you will get … into a blind alley from which no-one has yet escaped . ’ |
12 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
13 | Even if social analysis is something which everyone does , those who engage in it professionally are still tempted by delusions of grandeur . |
14 | Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin . |
15 | The outcome of a blatant novelty song would have been lots of cash ( something to which everyone had a liking ) and a higher profile . |
16 | Of even greater consequence , the participation of adolescents in society was of special interest in the latter part of the War when ‘ reconstruction ’ promised both efficiency and a liberal , social democracy in which everyone had a part to play . |
17 | One night during the making of the first film in November 1972 , she dusted down a piece of furniture in that crowded kitchen of hers ( which everyone had supposed to be a writing desk ) lifted the lid and revealed … a miniature organ . |
18 | I thought that Basil appreciated more than most the essential magic of the child 's experience of the world and the expression of this in art — not that he ever said this , but his own manner as a teacher always implied that this was a special , essentially elevated kind of activity — but one in which everyone had the capacity to join . |
19 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
20 | From the Wilton Weavers she was given a camera as a leaving present and from the Winding Department and the Spool Setters she received a generous gift of cash to which everyone had contributed . |
21 | Bilbo uses some five of these : one is rhyme , which everyone recognises , but the others are less familiar — internal half-rhyme , alliteration ( i.e. beginning words with the same sound or letter ) , alliterative assonance ( the Macbeth device ) , and a frequent if irregular variation of syntax . |
22 | In short , a stable and caring society in which everyone can live in reasonable comfort and security and to which everyone contributes according to their means . |
23 | To promote the learner as subject , Freire proposes a dialogue approach in which everyone participates as co-learners to understand and create a jointly constructed reality . |
24 | Because they are doing the most unnatural thing in the world , which everyone tells them is perfectly natural , in order that little children should all sit down quiet and good in one place and learn to take the world for granted , and not attempt to change it . |
25 | There were dry gingers and tonics prepared for the whiskies and gins which everyone hoped would drown the star 's sorrows . |
26 | And as they go about the painstaking task of piecing the problem together there is one solution which everyone fears . |
27 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
28 | Indeed , throughout the story of the Shah 's last year , recollections differ enormously , There is no one version on which everyone agrees , no single destination , no unity of perception or goal . |
29 | He will know that we propose for the sake of speed and practicality to use an existing valuation register , which everyone agrees exists and can be used . |
30 | The General Theory appears to have assumed the dubious status of a ‘ classic ’ : a work to which everyone refers but which no one reads . |