Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'Ave you come to see me ? 'Ow nice of you ! |
| 2 | But the teacher in John still comes out whenever some of the many schoolchildren who visit the centre see him at work : |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , whatever was that ? ’ she used to cry , sitting down with a thump on anything that was handy , whenever one of them exploded within hearing . |
| 4 | Once you have learnt it all , Computer Puzzles will give you something to run whenever one of your friends makes that irritating remark : ‘ It 's very nice … but what can you do with it ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The simplest of jobs can be done with panache ’ , he would instruct whenever one of his staff fell short of his standards of perfection — the standards that endeared him to his ‘ Shiny Set ’ customers and staff alike . |
| 6 | Whenever one of the family is seen responding to their dog 's demands , he or she must pay 10p ( or 50p if you really want to see motivation at work ! ) into the other 's boxes . |
| 7 | And so , whenever one of Steven 's movies touched upon an adult theme , he was unable to link it directly to his own experience , because he had n't any . |
| 8 | Certainly she was indurate against Knox 's sermonizing , and their clash of ideologies was one of the factors leading to passionate outbursts against Mary whenever one of her enemies wished to force her into an awkward situation . |
| 9 | There was the Masters ' Room on the ground floor — they took it out to put in a new directors ' lift — and whenever one of our ships docked in London her master would come for a drink and a chat with Mr.Andrew — like a sort of club , it was . |
| 10 | Mainly , of course , he bought books and arranged for others to be copied , but whenever any of the magnates fell foul of him , he would confiscate his library . |
| 11 | It seems that Jesse thought that human rights do not lose their relevance whenever any of us decide we detest somebody else . |
| 12 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 13 | On the subject of strange names , let me tell you this ( and I am now serious ) : The sweet-shop at South Portland Street , opposite our tenement , wherein most of our pocket-money was spent , was owned by a tall , bearded , orthodox Jew . |
| 14 | He is a prolific inventor who helped to start the environmental revolution and , as a result of work undertaken for NASA , studied the conditions necessary for the continued existence of life and found that the Earth constituted a self-regulatory system whereby each of the many variable factors , such as temperature and the composition of air , sea and soil , had been kept within the narrow limits necessary for life to survive for the entire history of the planet . |
| 15 | My examination of Nizan 's communist novels ( Chapter 7 ) will be directed at accomplishing two tasks : first , to examine the processes whereby each of three texts is produced and reproduced in successively different historical situations ; here , particular emphasis will be given to the idea that each text is not a perfectly finished artistic product but the narrative site of ideological and literary contradictions . |
| 16 | Frame rents were high and the six masters used the truck system of payment , whereby some of the wages were paid in goods . |
| 17 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 18 | The agreement was finally achieved after exemptions were agreed whereby nine of the member states would begin operating the system at various points after the January 1991 deadline . |
| 19 | Falconer — well , Giles , for he and I were friends — devised a scheme whereby one of our agents would use one of Paris 's most expensive whores to trap a leading member of the Luciferi . |
| 20 | ICI Australia has set up an imaginative scheme to improve industry/teacher links , whereby one of its employees and one teacher are paired in a scientific expedition alongside a distinguished researcher . |
| 21 | This letter , based on expediency and written in a hurry , without any of the proper backing of parliamentary statute , has continued to dictate the terms whereby millions of pounds of public money are spent on land drainage , right up until the mid-1980s . |
| 22 | Since 1979 this desire has been manifested in the European Monetary System , whereby most of the member countries of the European Community have agreed to limit the fluctuations of their respective currencies . |
| 23 | Notice how each of these structures implies tension for the participants . |
| 24 | Looking back at these different sets of theories ( outlined in sections 5.3.2 , 5.3.3 and 5.3.4 ) , consider how each of them might explain the restructuring of local government ( discussed in Chapter 4 and referred to at the start of section 5.3 ) which took place in the 1980s ? |
| 25 | Here 's a summary , which shows you how each of these strengths can be made use of in the workplace . |
| 26 | We can predict statistically how the atoms and photons will behave , but we can not predict accurately for each one of them — and , afterwards , we can not tell how each of them has behaved unless we look . |
| 27 | Thus Kant 's moral philosophy has the merit of mainly being concerned with illuminating how each of us should decide what to do himself , rather than with advising him how to judge others . |
| 28 | By this time next year , SunSoft Inc wants the chiefs of the Unix tribes , Unix Systems Labs Inc 's Roel Pieper , Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's Doug Michels , and its own Ed Zander , to have declared how each of them will support and implement a common definition of Unix in their respective desktop operating systems . |
| 29 | But then we have to consider how each of these other groups or forces impact upon the firm . |
| 30 | This chapter looks at how each of the different aspects of this strategy has been employed , not only to free money from welfare for tax cuts but also to gain an appreciation of the extent of the disenfranchisement from an insurance-based welfare that has occurred . |