Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb base] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 2 | She makes a sort of crackling noise which I 've never been able to explain : it may be contentment — or perhaps she 's asking for more . |
| 3 | Most important was losing inches off my hips , which I have n't been able to do before … . ‘ |
| 4 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 5 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 6 | The project which we report here was one such scheme . |
| 7 | Our principal method for gathering the information about care programming which we report here was direct interviews with practitioners , but this could not give any indication of the applicability of our findings to other areas . |
| 8 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 9 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 10 | The collector , then , will always examine the evidence that his book is complete in every respect and , as well as all the trimmings with which we have temporarily been preoccupied , will carefully test the completeness of the text itself . |
| 11 | I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition . |
| 12 | These are all examples of ways in which people learn to live with long-term social difficulties which they have not been able to change . |
| 13 | ‘ The workers in our group already have lots of knitting to do what I need now is another group of volunteers , ’ Moira said . |
| 14 | What you get now is plush ; hard-wearing fabric seats and deep-pile matting . |
| 15 | What we have here is one jet-black copy of a Lennon-style Rickenbacker 325 ( dubbed the RK-32B , ho ho ) and one red sunburst-finished copy of Townshend 's fave battleaxe the 330 , the Encore RK-33R ( I think we 'll call them the red one and the black one ) . |
| 16 | What we have here is cognitive regulation . |
| 17 | Alright , so the Monroe song is perhaps subverted by Sinead 's sharp , orgasmic ‘ Ow Ow ’ at the end , but otherwise what we have here is straight-down-the-line , brilliantly performed grandparent-friendly pre-rock 'n' roll pop . |
| 18 | What we have here is another American phenomenon : the marketing ploy . |
| 19 | What , what we have actually is two proposals on speed cameras , if I can make that point . |
| 20 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
| 21 | These two people had enacted what we have long been accustomed to think of as a romantic programme , whereby love and death converge , and dying young is the thing to do , whereby other people , and common life , are a thing to be escaped from , and a tension develops between the duty to a partner and a cultivation of the self , between the dictates of an amour fou and an amour de soi . |
| 22 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 23 | What we see here is some of the work which backs up her important argument ( published elsewhere ) that the popular and fragmented nature of postmodern culture yields itself to a more positive interpretation than most of the pessimistic ( and male ) theorists of postmodernism would have us believe . |
| 24 | Setting this show and its problems aside , what we need generally is some fresh thinking and some fresh air . |
| 25 | We 've got information coming out of our ears and what we need now is some way to make sense of it . |
| 26 | What they mean basically is that in relation to sand and gravel , the County Council will , will continue to look to four areas of the County er for most of the sand and gravel production , that 's the Sutton Courtney area , Sutton Wick area , er the Stanton Harcourt area and the Cassington/Yarnton area ; most of the sand and gravel workings will be there . |
| 27 | Well that is the , that is the erm the government guidelines that are actually set down and that 's what they pay out is fifty six pounds ten pence per week |