Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST AS the world succumbed to the vile peace and love mumblings of ‘ Sgt Pepper ’ and San Francisco flower-in-the-hair wearers , former session hack Lou Reed , art bod John Cale and friends teamed up with foghorn-voiced German model Nico and made the album without which no-one from The Jesus And Mary Chain to Ride would have a clue . |
| 2 | He went on to top our list of goalscorers for each of his first five seasons ( another record ) and , between September 1929 and April 1935 , played in 180 league and 15 FA Cup matches for us , scoring a fabulous 153 League and 12 FA Cup goals to establish a tally which no-one in the club has ever approached before or since . |
| 3 | So notices for insurance premia arrive at Trivandrum in South India , say , printed only in Hindi , which no-one in the area can decipher . |
| 4 | The Long Service presentations are an annual event to which everyone with twenty five or more years ' service is invited , together with the immediate family of those receiving their award . |
| 5 | But then to do it well , so that it all sounds extremely natural — so that it flows and sounds effortless — that requires a long preparation , which everyone at La Scala was happy to give it . |
| 6 | Along with luck , this is the scarce commodity which no one in the music business can manufacture and which everyone in the industry is looking for . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the clash which everyone in boxing wants to see but it 's up to them to get back in touch with us . ’ |
| 8 | Once again , despite the smoke-screen , the hon. Gentleman has failed to answer the question to which everyone in Scotland wants an answer . |
| 9 | One report which everyone in N C V O and many more besides would n't be without , is the Voluntary Agencies Directory , from which N C V O publishing in print , Bedford Square Press puts out . |
| 10 | We do not wish to commit Spain to entering the war merely in order to frighten England into a peace from which nothing but the independence of the Americans would be obtained … |
| 11 | In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings , through which nothing but the ragwort would grow . |
| 12 | ] Neo-classical theories failed to perceive that the characteristic features of the real world ( to which nothing in the perfectly competitive model corresponds ) are simply the manifestations of entrepreneurial competition , a process in which would-be buyers and sellers gropingly seek to discover each other 's supply and demand curves . |
| 13 | a celestial policeman ; 2. an absentee landlord ; 3. a magician ; 4. a being greater than anything we can possibly think of ; 5. an old man on a cloud ; 6. light which gives life ; 7. the conclusion of a mathematical theorem ; 8. the chairman of a rather boring harp-playing assembly ; 9. a presence who is loving and just ; 10. a crutch for people who ca n't cope ; 11. an all-powerful dictator ; 12. a character in a fairy-story ; 13. a power that is either evil or indifferent to suffering ; 14. a heavenly Santa Claus ; 15. a king who is just and holy ; 16. electricity which is invisible and powerful , useful but dangerous ; 17. a slot-machine whom you can approach with a coin and get out what you want ; 18. the ground without which nothing in this world could exist . |
| 14 | A woman is the ‘ opposite ’ to Christ in a way in which someone of another race is not . |
| 15 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 16 | The most remarkable thing is the way in which someone from the most privileged home in the land should strike a chord with those from the most deprived backgrounds . |
| 17 | Sometimes my city portraits could be anywhere , the comments are things which someone from Chile could understand . |
| 18 | The rise of the speculative office block presents problems with which someone like Nash would have been unfamiliar . |
| 19 | It was like the star chefs , like the film directors who think they make films single-handed , it was a world of overblown egos in which someone like Dennis — and , goddamn it , he had known some tribulations in his day ! — could forget or , worse , overlook the common decencies of humanity . |
| 20 | Neville is the typo visual type movement , which someone like April Grieman Type ninety is also in , and I admire this and I think that what Neville Brody did in the early issues of the Face you know just blew me away ; it was the most exciting thing that anyone had done in years . |
| 21 | A further offence is to be found in the Mail Order Transactions ( Information ) Order 1976 , whereby written advertisements in which someone in the course of a business invites from consumers mail orders for goods , with payment in advance , must include a legible description of the name and address of the person inviting the orders . |
| 22 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 23 | This is the point at which I as a mathematical physicist begin to splutter and go red in the face . |
| 24 | I think erm , often when judges , I do n't know whether George or any other judges that might be here tonight , one of the things which I as a judge often dread is photographs of babies coming up in competition . |
| 25 | and that er , you know , has lead to a lot of misery in some cases , er , also I mean there 's question of viability of our own scheme and I er , think er you know , er there are a number of questions which I as a lay-man would like to be , you know , I think the seminar is probably the right to do that . |
| 26 | The decision to believe was one for which I at least was fully responsible . |
| 27 | In Sanity , Madness , and the Family , R.D. Laing and Aaron Esterson point up , with a clarity which I at once recognised and was astonished by , the importance of attributions within the family . |
| 28 | Sorry ; etcetera ) as well as the slightly perverse habit of calling all young girls ‘ madam ’ and all old women ‘ girls , ’ it was a charm to which I at least was quite prophylactically immune . |
| 29 | This set Eliot on to a technical disquisition which I at least was unable to follow ; but it included the fact that , in order to preserve a certain particularly rare cheese or at least to promote its further maturity , the owners had ‘ buried it ’ . |
| 30 | The only time he can guarantee not to be called out is during his annual leave , of which plenty of notice is necessary . |