Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Age discrimination in retirement and social security are the main foundation on which discrimination against older people is based .
2 I do not think that these qualities arise wholly , or even mainly , as it is so often assumed , from the character of its buildings and the beauty of the natural forms , such as trees , which stand in juxtaposition to them .
3 Much therefore depended on which brand of them would be returned and whether , as in the past , they would align themselves with the Conservative Party and accept its whip .
4 You might think Pluto is cute ; they want to know which brand of dogfood he eats
5 Respondents are always reluctant to admit such deficiencies ; questions must be phrased so that they seem quite acceptable , e.g. ‘ Which brand of washing powder did you buy last ? ’ might become ‘ Can you remember which brand … ? ’
6 And the first couple arguing over which brand of
7 Indeed , all that remains today of the old inherent rights are the power to control the method of carrying out the functions which Parliament from time to time give to the local authorities and the power to make rules as to the conduct of the meetings of the local authority .
8 As the Prayer Book enjoined in the Notes appended to the Communion Service , ‘ every Parishioner shall communicate at the least three times in the year , of which Easter to be one ’ .
9 The major line of development of the College has thus been its transformation from a teaching school attached to an equine infirmary , to a fully fledged university school in which teaching at undergraduate level and research of high standing encompass the whole range of domesticated animals , and where postgraduate courses meet the increasing demands of specialisation in such subjects as animal health , pathology and laboratory animal science .
10 In which case at this stage the interviewer can move quickly on to more detailed questions .
11 274 , the only case of authority on the point which is at the heart of this appeal ( which case in any event is not binding on your Lordships ) , applied the obiter dicta in Lawrence to reach an erroneous conclusion .
12 The large and comfortable handhold which the shelf at first provided does n't feel quite so satisfying now it 's at chest height ; which course of action to take ?
13 At its most extreme , someone 's capacity to choose which course of action to perform is removed from them .
14 Another is that two people may have conflicting beliefs about which course of action to perform .
15 Which course of action is chosen will depend on the total design needs and the authority given to the designer .
16 Your cheeks like damask , the soft white loveliness of your breasts , leading to the firm dark mountain peaks of your , Laura , now I 'm dreading which part of my body he will choose next on which to turn the great white beam of his fucking sincerity .
17 That is , the choreographer must understand from which part of the body impetus is to be given so that the step achieves its full purpose at the proper moment — usually in some gesture and its musical emphasis .
18 There are other things he has , on his own admission , not fully investigated , like the value of the DRG properties , or which part of the DRG business he would keep after the break up .
19 BMW is n't saying which part of the new range will sell best ( the smart money is on the 318i ) .
20 The Social Democrat , Lord Kennet , the first opponent of research to speak , said : ‘ Those who say that this full-stop-sized mini-blob is not a human being must answer which part of the question they object to : human or being ?
21 I 'm not saying he would n't have become one without MainMan , but when you talk about MainMan , you have to be so definite — which part of MainMan and when .
22 Indeed , at a certain point the stories come to seem almost like pauses , moments of reflection perhaps , in a wider discourse that envelopes the written word , such as to make the readers of Celati 's narrative acknowledge something in common with Palomar listening to his blackbirds , uncertain which part of their communication is language , which silence .
23 Apart from the difficulties of physically getting into clothes and fastening them , the patient also has to identify what each garment is , which way it goes on , and to which part of the body each part of each garment belongs .
24 It is interesting to trace the way in which the times of meals have changed over the centuries , particularly because in everyday life it is not just the clock which tells us which part of the day we are in but the meals that we eat .
25 She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar .
26 When sailing in surf it is important to select which wave to jump and also which part of the wave face is best .
27 Many individuals stand to do better by leaving SERPS and entering a private pension arrangement into which part of their National Insurance contributions and those of the employer are invested .
28 Moments and impressions from this great desert of time remain with me but I have long forgotten in which part of it they occurred .
29 In which part of the South Wales coalfield do they mine anthracite ?
30 I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 .
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