Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 2 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 3 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 4 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 5 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 6 | But then the truth about the massive doses of poison which Allitt administered to those babies in her care was uncovered . |
| 7 | The distrust which Dicey felt concerning this tendency of party government to destroy the balance of parliamentary institutions caused him to advocate the use of various institutional control devices . |
| 8 | The answer which Marx gave to this problem resembles that given later by Durkheim . |
| 9 | Further , the data can be used to reveal a good deal about the composition of households — who lived with whom — but far less about the character and quality of relationships which people had with each other ( Laslett , 1972a , p. 1 ; Anderson , 1980 , pp. 36–7 ) . |
| 10 | The arguments which Cassius made before this speech probably also helped to swing Brutus ' ides . |
| 11 | In fact the limitations which Baldwin accepted on this occasion were almost meaningless . |
| 12 | The idea of ‘ distraction ’ , so strongly linked with London in ‘ Burnt Norton ’ was one which Eliot saw in this period as politically as well as spiritually dangerous . |
| 13 | The Waste Land hardly suggests that the inhabitants of the twentieth-century city are conscious actors in fertility rites , but since these , long forgotten , underlie our behaviour , since the ‘ sexual instinct ’ plays a role in ‘ the religion and mythology of primitive peoples ( indeed in all religion ) ’ , and since Christianity and primitive ritual are linked , the poem expresses despair at the change and decay not only of city churches which Eliot visited at this time , but of all belief . |
| 14 | In an extract from a journal ( the only one to survive from the trip ) , which Eliza kept during that September , she describes this brief outing at the command of her restless husband : |
| 15 | Wood , whose films were so far away from the mainstream that they did n't even make it as C-movies , was responsible for Plan 9 From Outer Space and Glen Or Glenda , a transvestite special in which Wood appeared in several parts … male and female parts . |
| 16 | Several photographs from that holiday went into the huge scrapbook which John compiled at that period . |
| 17 | They reasserted their support of the American Anti-Slavery Society , sought links between their local groups and accepted the logic of being a minor adjunct of a movement whose dynamic lay in another country . |
| 18 | It was far worse for the Arabs whose homes lay in that part of Palestine in which the United Nations had decided to locate the new state of Israel . |
| 19 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 20 | The inherent exoticism of the place can have only added to its allure and , for those whose tastes tended in that direction , the soft purring caresses and total availability of the bar-girls must have seemed irresistible . |
| 21 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 22 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 23 | Most of the Irish Protestants are people whose ancestors came to this area several centuries ago from Scotland , England and even France . |
| 24 | There were plate-glass windows on three sides of the office … and what Cardiff saw through those windows brought him to a halt . |
| 25 | In all these ways the place was perfectly suited to what Ramsey needed at that moment . |
| 26 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 27 | What Tolkien took from that passage ( and others ) was , in short , the ideas that elves were like angels ; that they had however been involved in a ‘ Fall ’ ; that their fate at Doomsday is not clear ( for men ‘ shall join in the Second Music of the Ainur ’ , elves perhaps not , S , p. 42 ) , that they are associated with the Earthly Paradise , and can not die till the end of the world . |
| 28 | Lucien was unsure what Mandru meant by these remarks . |
| 29 | I do n't want vast numbers of rare and special tropicals in the tank ( on this occasion ) but do want to indulge my taste for shoals of fish , which is what nature intended in most cases but rarely happens . |
| 30 | What Jesus meant by this answer was : |