Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well-loved scene in Dickens ’ Bleak House is the one in which little Jo , the crossing-sweeper , first hears of God : |
| 2 | Retarded technologies are those energy technologies that were abandoned , technologies on which little R & D continued because of cheaper alternatives . |
| 3 | In what has been described , we have moved from a model of a community in which neighbourly acts were performed within clearly defined limits , with reciprocal benefits looming large , to a model in which , so far as very old people are concerned , such acts are more often the product of altruism ( remembering that this does not deny gratification to the giver ) and of a more systematic attempt to offer and channel care appropriately . |
| 4 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 5 | It also has a built-in fault detection system which effectively off-lines defective elements , while the remainder continue operations . |
| 6 | The boots are lined with Cambrelle throughout which effectively wicks away any excessive perspiration . |
| 7 | The Truth , which presumably Plato 's truthful man , like Gandhi himself , feels the need to live in accordance with , to abide by , to hold fast to , and to uphold , is that which determines the way in which he lives and the spirit in which he travels . |
| 8 | Both NTSB recommendations had started with the word ‘ require ’ , which presumably means ‘ apply compulsion ’ . |
| 9 | Dr Alethea Ward had known this , and thus had left her money , some of which eventually Liz Ablewhite had inherited . |
| 10 | Thus , perhaps without realising the implications , the Soviet parliament gave the go-ahead for the most revolutionary experiment here since Lenin 's New Economic Policy of the 1920s : for a massive delegation of powers from the centre , permitting a single republic to create its own market-oriented economy , with its own budget , and to redraw economic rules which basically Stalin 's . |
| 11 | Occlusion bodies ( OBs ) can be from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres across and these viruses can therefore easily be seen under the light microscope , which greatly aids diagnosis . |
| 12 | One could not teach a chimpanzee to grow bananas nor a dolphin to farm fish , for these are quite alien to its mind set and require the foresight , the ability to see and plan ahead , which only man possesses . |
| 13 | Good connections with a minister would be advantageous to any political interest , for freeholders and councillors often requested assistance which only government could provide . |
| 14 | But he 's had to close some of the deeper galleries which only pot holers use , because of the build up of toxic gasses . |
| 15 | Managing director Martin Jay says the company has an order book worth £700m against £30m a year ago , of which only 5% is Ministry of Defence related . |
| 16 | Using rail , the train journey cost per mile worked out at £10.60 , of which only £2 was fixed cost — mainly provision of a locomotive and driver — and £8.60 was variable cost such as track maintenance , fuel and depreciation . |
| 17 | Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men . |
| 18 | To measure sincerity in weapons proved very difficult , and so , from time to time , the American delegation would fall back on the mantra of peace , peace to which only Iraq was the obstacle , peace in which all these obsessions about the latest arms and the best would be redundant . |
| 19 | ‘ A confidential report of some kind which only PKB customers should have seen . ’ |
| 20 | Muthaiga Club , where I am staying , releases forgotten gusts of memory , like those lilies which only exhale their sweet perfume at night . |
| 21 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 22 | It also has narrow channels ; through which only molecules having dimensions within certain limits can pass . |
| 23 | In this regard , they are much better value as plants than such species roses as Rosa xanthina ‘ Canary Bird ’ and Rosa moyesii , both of which only flower for a couple of weeks during the early summer . |
| 24 | So powerful is that consideration , it is argued , that it lifts this case out of the ordinary Cyanamid considerations ( see American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 ) , in which the concern of the court is to preserve the subject matter and accept the risk that if the court should refuse the child may die before final decision , as a result of an intervening choking fit from which only ventilation could save him . |
| 25 | I myself was grimly unsympathetic , pointing out the years of government and social inaction on cervical cancer , a sexually-related disease from which only women suffer and which could be drastically reduced by simple health education and changes in heterosexual male habits . |
| 26 | Despite the controversy , Johnson captured the hearts and imaginations of most black Americans in a way which only folk heroes had done previously . |
| 27 | Intentions are infamous for getting put into action less frequently than plans simply because intentions leave a yawning gap which only plans can bridge . |
| 28 | alternative name for the Earl Marshal 's or Marshalsea Court in which only lawyers who were members of Clifford 's Inn were allowed to practise . |
| 29 | Second , proposals which only address ( and seek to reform ) the structural changes that have afflicted the media , e.g. conglomeration , but fail to note changes in the processes of news-production and journalistic work , are incomplete solutions . |
| 30 | A similar finding has been reported using simultaneous gamma scintigraphy , oesophageal pH monitoring , and manometry in which only 23% of reflux events were detected by both methods . |