Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |
| 2 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 3 | The Justice Model asserted two central principles , both of which harked back to the classicism of Beccaria . |
| 4 | Hockney has repaid the debt with numerous studies of Silver , two of which looked on among the gallery 's 100 Hockneys , ranging from a teenage pencil sketch to oils done last Christmas . |
| 5 | Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street . |
| 6 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 7 | Scott , Hogg , Lockhart and other literary stalwarts are reputed to have frequented this old hunting inn , part of which dates back to the 18th century . |
| 8 | These two executive/client spaces are supported by five white pre-cast columns , tow of which drive up through the room and terrace above . |
| 9 | Amaranth was wearing what appeared to be a blue-black overcoat with square shoulders , the skirts of which came down to the knee . |
| 10 | All of which fits in with the differences of stomach contents with which we began . |
| 11 | But caterpillars , most of which banquet out in the open , must look to their defences . |
| 12 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 13 | LIKE SOUTH Luffenham Hall , Poulton Manor is built of limestone , a belt of which runs up from the Cotswolds to Grantham . |
| 14 | That is because the deeper issues of the party divide lay elsewhere — in the political , constitutional and , in particular , the religious tensions which have been explored in this book , many of which dated back to the Restoration . |
| 15 | The country park includes an historic Iron Age camp and extensive walks , one of which links up with the walk along the Grand Union Canal via Green Lane . |
| 16 | There are three churches in the village including All Saints , parts of which date back to the 15th century . |
| 17 | Auctioneers Outhwaite and Litherland are selling the 40 antique fans , some of which date back to the beginning of the century . |
| 18 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 19 | The contrast can be seen by comparing the information available when the Commons in 1856 forced the publication of all dispatches dealing with the origins of the Crimean War before hostilities were over , and the capacity of successive governments to keep the House and the public in total and persistent ignorance of what led up to the invasion of Suez in 1956 . |
| 20 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 21 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that there is considerable maladministration among Labour councils , as witness the discovery of what went on in the council of Brent when it was under Labour control . |
| 23 | The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building . |
| 24 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 25 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 26 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 27 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 28 | The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns . |
| 29 | Ted , 51 — now trained in law and first aid — said : ‘ As a cleaner I 've had an insight into what goes on in the cells . ’ |
| 30 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |