Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a few ‘ do n't likes ’ from around the office on opening the carton ; the wider front , squarer edges and lack of the traditional Fender rake back for the control panel take most of the criticism , although Fender 's spindly new knobs , which no-one here much cares for , received their share of whinges . |
| 2 | Very often the chair in which the dead person used to sit most when they were alive , becomes a chair in which no-one else sits . |
| 3 | An intrinsic and notorious part of the '70s rock scene , Kiss created a personal performing arena for themselves which no-one else dared to enter , with their outrageous costumes and make-up , extravagant stage presentations and riffy pop-metal songs . |
| 4 | Tom Jones says that Central has given him the opportunity to do a musical show which no-one else is doing . |
| 5 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 6 | It would be counter-productive to include a clause which no-one really regards as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the firm just because that clause is commonly found in the precedent books : better by far to leave it out until agreement on a satisfactory alternative can be agreed . |
| 7 | Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ? |
| 8 | He describes ufology as ‘ a war zone in which everyone desperately defends their own theory and hates everyone else . ’ |
| 9 | But when we got there we found that the mountain we had perceived from the map to be the Cathedral , and which everyone else had perceived to be the Cathedral , was in fact another mountain altogether . |
| 10 | After the trauma of the discovery of Gebrec 's body and Dora 's subsequent clash with Dieter , the exit from Les Châtaigniers was accomplished with minimum fuss , thanks to Jack 's decisiveness and air of quiet authority to which everyone willingly submitted . |
| 11 | Clearly this meets a felt need for which nothing previously composed was quite appropriate . |
| 12 | ‘ Close to Eden is a good looking film let down by a convoluted and complex plot in which nothing really happens . |
| 13 | B. ’ A day elapsed in which nothing further occurred . |
| 14 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 15 | At home , going out shopping , at school , at work , we give out messages which someone else receives . |
| 16 | Of course , ten p.m. on a winter 's night , when one was a lady of leisure expected to be indoors enjoying a meal which someone else had cooked , was perhaps a bit much . |
| 17 | Of course , my attitude may stem from my having certain beliefs , but these beliefs are not part of what is actually expressed by the sentence , and do not pertain to that which someone else must share with me , in order for it to be logically proper for him to assent to my sentence . |
| 18 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 19 | The cultured , husky voice rises and shakes out an incandescence of brilliant obscenity , of sexual and visceral allusion , the stripped message being that serious work is being interrupted by trivialities which someone else should be dealing with . |
| 20 | On the one hand is the car dealer who buys and displays for sale a car which someone else has previously ‘ clocked , ’ i. e. turned back the odometer . |
| 21 | It can happen that the ownership of one person is subject to certain rights which someone else has over the goods . |
| 22 | So there 'd be something rather odd about people voting out of moral motivation for a utilitarian because they would be voting their estimate of where the general happiness lies , rather than putting their input into the sum from which someone else can calculate where the general happiness lies . |
| 23 | Because your conclusion is so important , you ca n't risk the slightly different emphases and directions which someone else 's words are likely to carry . |
| 24 | write , you write and er feed into the thing which it operates along the rules defined by its firmware which someone else has put into it . |
| 25 | Yes , any behaviour that is used inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions , or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood , or to which someone repeatedly returns despite negative consequences , can be a form of addictive disease . |
| 26 | Tried and tested methods , which someone less technologically illiterate than myself could have guessed at , are put to very effective use . |
| 27 | Many books which my more ardent academic colleagues ( and I too at the time ) might have cheerfully consigned to the dustbin have been saved by the splendid professional retentiveness of librarians . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend and the hon. Gentleman have established several points with which I strongly agree . |
| 29 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 30 | ‘ Go home , dear girl , you will die of heat on your bicycle , ’ the women under the arcades would say to me in their strange Parmigiano dialect ( which I soon learned to understand but never to speak ) as I rode past . |