Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had occurred was an unprecedented box-office slump in which eventually a third of America 's movie-houses were to close and giant film corporations were to plunge into debt . |
| 2 | We can actually er use various actual computer equipment er open systems er recently new development as well which basically a lot of companies have been inputting their share resources to develop this area . |
| 3 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 4 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 5 | But there it encountered another ruined project , a work to be called The Drunks of which only a tiny fragment survives , and the marriage of these two constitutes the success of Crime and Punishment . |
| 6 | Here , as with most of Shostakovich , the content they locate is a projection of what they know of its circumstances - by which only a heart of stone would not be moved . |
| 7 | one wonders which was real and which only a reflection . |
| 8 | Football has become a substitute for patriotism amongst the disaffected , half-educated white working-class youth of a nation which only a generation ago was respected and feared throughout the world . |
| 9 | McGeechan believes that Sole has set standards of performance with his pace and mobility in the loose which only a handful of British players , such as Brian Moore of England , are currently emulating . |
| 10 | He hopes to bully Mr Kinnock — Mr Major 's refusal to contemplate such a deal is absolute — into establishing PR for ever , something for which only a fifth of the electorate will have voted . |
| 11 | Instead of frantically adding new features , which only a handful of customers may ever use , it is now concentrating on making tasks easier and faster to perform . |
| 12 | The understanding of human action requires a temporal perspective which only a sufficiently broad evolutionary approach can supply . |
| 13 | Another route has led to the formation of bands of close relatives in which only a small number of adults breed and these are assisted by helpers that live communally with them in a group territory . |
| 14 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 15 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
| 16 | Upon conviction , she ( I use the pronoun ‘ she ’ for the sake of convenience here ) appealed on the ground that the statute expressly made the crime one which only a man could commit . |
| 17 | It attempts to be a proof that all children can be educated ; yet it is also supposed to form a preparation for higher education to which only a few will aspire . |
| 18 | This will be so where he is reasonably satisfied that one of a group of two or more people , including yourself , must have committed an act of gross misconduct ( such as theft of money from a room to which only a very limited number of individuals had access ) , and yet he can not pinpoint the actual culprit , despite having examined all the evidence thoroughly . |
| 19 | Particular to graphite intercalation compounds is their tendency to form periodically stacked high-stage compounds in which only a fraction of the interlayer spaces of the graphite host lattice is filled with intercalated layers . |
| 20 | St. Katherine 's Gardens — once the site of St. Katherine 's Church of which only a few stones now remain . |
| 21 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 22 | Although many towns and housing estates are served by live and dynamic churches , many are not , and even within a small community of 12,000 like ours in Cranham , there can still be whole estates from which only a handful of people are Christians . |
| 23 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |
| 24 | Close-ups range from those which include the whole of the head and shoulders of a human subject to those in which only a part of the head is shown in ‘ big close-up ’ ( BCU ) . |
| 25 | Growth in the take-home trade — some 15 per cent of all beer sales — in which only a few of the larger independent brewers have national distribution . |
| 26 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 27 | Their bodies , although all different , had a sort of common denominator ugliness which only a group of undressed men can produce . |
| 28 | It is felt as a tussle of will , a powerful urge to transgress standards of thought or behaviour which only a part of us declares as inviolable . |
| 29 | Presenting art that reflects or comments on news events or , more broadly , on history , seems to be the new orientation of the Whitney Museum , which only a few years ago was more likely to devote Biennial space to the rising stars of New York 's booming gallery scene . |
| 30 | Selection bias is specially important in family studies of diseases in which only a minority of the cases have a genetic origin . |