Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , after what we 've been through together that 's nothing short of childish . |
| 2 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 3 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 4 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 5 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 6 | The explicit arguments of which I know are to my mind hopeless . |
| 7 | ‘ The bordello of which I talk is on the Rue la Boutie under the charge of Madam Edith . |
| 8 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 9 | Erm as the notes to this table indicate , it is a compilation by the panel secretary of what we believe is before us . |
| 10 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 11 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
| 12 | ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea . |
| 13 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 14 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 15 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 16 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 17 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 18 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 19 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 20 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |
| 21 | The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year . |
| 22 | I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident . |
| 23 | The annihilation had all but occurred in far-off Europe , but that with which he wrestled was of even deeper concern — the cessation of the faith from within . |
| 24 | Lord MacMillan in Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 at p289 stated : The Section does not declare that the dispositions with which it deals are to be treated as non-existent in a question between the maker of the disposition and the Inland Revenue . |
| 25 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 26 | Indeed , the way in which they interact is of crucial importance . |
| 27 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 28 | It is an important one , because every aspect of the environment in which we live is of interest to us as individuals and is certainly of interest to the people whom we seek to represent . |
| 29 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 30 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |