Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among his sacred possessions were an enormous club which could raise the slain to life again ; a magic harp whose music made its listeners forget sorrow ; an inexhaustible cauldron from which no-one is turned away hungry ; and two marvellous sheep — one eternally roasting , the other forever feeding in readiness for slaughter . |
| 2 | This can only be done , he suggests , by moving away from hierarchy and towards a position in which everyone is a manager . |
| 3 | Against both Yeovil and Scarborough we are prepared to accept a David and Goliath situation in which everyone is pulling for little David . ’ |
| 4 | * The Annual Lourdes Reunion for the Feast Day will be held in St Mary 's Cathedral , Coulby Newham , with Mass at 7pm to which everyone is invited — sick and healthy — Lourdes pilgrims and friends . |
| 5 | The great game of cricket is now in danger of becoming the sport in which everyone is frightened of telling the truth . |
| 6 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 7 | And and of the SOED discuss the topic which everyone is having to come to terms with — ‘ Educational Audit , Performance Indicators and School Improvement ’ . |
| 8 | There are no frontiers within eastern and central Europe with which everyone is wholly comfortable . |
| 9 | of poll tax for which everyone is liable . |
| 10 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 11 | Aleksandr Nikitenko , the liberally inclined censor , confided to his diary that " such incidents involving government officials only demonstrate the deep , pervasive immorality to which everyone is accustomed here " . |
| 12 | Labour is determined to create a ‘ skills-culture ’ in which everyone is entitled to go on learning throughout their working life . |
| 13 | Beatitude is , in my opinion , a possession of all things we believe to be good , from which nothing is absent that a good desire may want . |
| 14 | Fortunately for Quinn , Sam was a trained agent , and had been through her apprenticeship in stake-out duties , than which nothing is more boring . |
| 15 | Braughing seems to contain a courtyard structure about which nothing is known , while a building at Cave 's Inn is also difficult to interpret . |
| 16 | YUPPA GA Stomach ache masquerading as eyestrain ; a book in which nothing is understandable except the author 's purpose in writing it |
| 17 | And failing that , the class war as interpreted by Engels , a war of which nothing is certain but the absolute uncertainty of its outcome . ’ ’ |
| 18 | The promoters tell us that it 's not like a book in which someone is telling you something . |
| 19 | I think he would say that ‘ because he was tired ’ , added to ‘ He said , ‘ Oh , I 'm so tired ’ ’ , serves to distinguish the case in question from ones in which someone is , say , play-acting , or lying ; but that it would be a mistake to regard saying this as an endorsement of the experiential explanation , in terms of feelings , of the meaning of tiredness language . |
| 20 | Consider any complex property which someone is tempted to identify with good . |
| 21 | Office : a relatively permanent position within the social structure to which someone is appointed or qualified , for example , electrician , nurse , pilot |
| 22 | But if the idea of some indefinable menace frees your imagination , then there is nothing to stop you producing a suspense novel every bit as twanging with tension as a story in which someone is left hanging by one finger over a depthless gorge . |
| 23 | Here is an example , from one of our front-room tapes , in which someone is answering a question about why football is not so popular nowadays . |
| 24 | It is difficult and probably impossible to allow people thus abused to make statements in the press which can only interfere with the process of justice by which someone is tried . |
| 25 | And on the mantelpiece there is a book , Marilyn French 's The Women 's Room which somebody is reading . |
| 26 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 27 | There 's a sense in which the very best type of interview , the very best sort of particularly on something like radio or television , is one in which somebody is not being manipulated by somebody else , but is genuinely a sort of backwards and forwards situation . |
| 28 | ‘ There were four or five incidents which nobody is pleased to see , ’ admitted Gould . |
| 29 | And with luck , it could turn out to be a bit of gang warfare which nobody is — unofficially , of course — ; going to bust a gut trying to solve . |
| 30 | Which which is a lot more . |