Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 28 , several thousand supporters of Touré 's regime staged a pro-democracy march through Bamako during which , according to Radio France Internationale , calls were made for information on the " barons of the old regime " . |
| 2 | The explosions were attributed to the Basque separatist group Euzkadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) , as were three others in Spain during July in which three people were killed and 20 injured . |
| 3 | India 's financial markets were hit during May by what commentators described as the country 's worst financial scandal , leading to a dramatic slump on the Bombay stock market . |
| 4 | To see the five early seventeenth-century working miniature firearms from the workshop of Michel Mann of Augsburg and Nuremberg , a rare mechanical calculator made by Johann Schuster in 1822 , a German Royal hunting knife made in Berlin in 1699 by Jaques Munier , and a pair of mid-eighteenth-century four-light candelabra ( attributed to Christian Heinrich Ingermann ) made for Augustus III , Elector of Saxony alongside what are traditionally regarded as archetypal ‘ German ’ and ‘ Austrian ’ works , such as paintings , watercolours and prints by the German Expressionists , does indeed focus the mind on the manifold contributions to the history of art made by artists of the German speaking countries . |
| 5 | In awareness of everything relevant to the issue ( = everything which would spontaneously move me one way or the other ) , I find myself moved towards X , overlooking something relevant I find myself moved towards Y. In which direction shall I let myself be moved ? |
| 6 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 7 | Rubino claimed that the verdict projected the USA in the role of " world policeman " , capable of " imposing its will upon so-called independent sovereign nations " , a reference to the December 1989 US military invasion of Panama during which Noriega was seized before being flown to the USA [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 8 | North of The Border the escape route provided by sanctuary in Edinburgh became redundant by the passing of the Bankruptcy ( Scotland ) Act of 1913 , though the last entry in the court book of the Bailie of Holyrood under whose care the debtors lived , was dated 1880 , when imprisonment for debt was in most cases abolished . |
| 9 | I am not sure how the law-breaking campaign is working or whether other companies would have joined B & Q , but the chief executive of my council felt that he was not in a position to commit the poll tax payers of Hull to what could have amounted to several million pounds , and a deal was finally struck that Hull city council would refrain from taking out an injunction and the cross-undertaking was therefore withdrawn . |
| 10 | The immediate cause was an Israeli reprisal raid in October 1953 on the village of Qibya in which 66 villagers were killed . |
| 11 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |
| 12 | In this month 's issue , by way of illustration , The Face conducts an interview with Bono of U2 in which the rock star strips naked in the middle of a restaurant , while other members of the band are photographed in drag . |
| 13 | To the world at large , the Sultanate of Oman attracts attention for its strategic position guarding the Straits of Hormuz through which passes fifty per cent of the world 's oil supplies . |
| 14 | Another strange job one of the younger lads did , he d he was about eighteen and er we went he went north to er north of Pickering to what do they call the forestry area there ? |
| 15 | Dissenting preacher , head of the Emmanuel Chapel of Dorking of which Stiggins is ‘ deputy-shepherd ’ . |
| 16 | A State is bound by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party if : ( a ) the parties … intended that the provision in question should be the means of creating a legal obligation binding upon that particular State or class of States to which it belongs ; and ( b ) that State has expressly or impliedly consented to the provision . |
| 17 | A [ third ] State is entitled to invoke a right … when ( a ) the parties … intended that the provision in question should create an actual right upon which that particular State , or a class of States to which it belongs , could rely ; and ( b ) the right has not been rejected , either expressly or impliedly by that State . |
| 18 | The Springbok all-rounder of the 1960s and 1970s has been appointed coach of Transvaal in what can be seen as a determined bid by the lions of the north to regain their position as the top dogs of South African domestic cricket . |
| 19 | The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley . |
| 20 | Strichen lies a little way down from the left shoulder of Scotland along which they travelled to reach Inverness . |
| 21 | A SHERIFF yesterday reported a solicitor to the Law Society of Scotland for what he said was the worst courtroom behaviour he had seen in 40 years . |
| 22 | Here politics and local interest coincided , for the father of the young officer was an important landowner in the area of Scotland in which the Elphinstone interest was being upheld by Lord Keith , and indeed , before acquiring his peerage , Lord Dundas had represented Stirlingshire in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | In 1759 the French were known to be preparing an invasion of Scotland in which French forces would sail and rouse any remaining Stuart rebels . |
| 24 | The apparent concentration of research effort in some well-favoured areas is justified by the intrinsic geological interest of these areas , but the large areas of Scotland in which no university-supported research has been undertaken must call for some explanation . |
| 25 | This fund is the government 's account at the Bank of England into which tax revenue and other receipts are paid , and from which the majority of the government 's sterling expenditure is financed . |
| 26 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 27 | ( a ) Banker to banks and other financial institutions — every commercial bank has an account with the Bank of England in which ‘ operational deposits ’ are kept in order to settle interbank debts from the cheque clearing system , and for payment of funds due to the government ( and , conversely , funds paid by the government to the banks ) . |
| 28 | A champion of Catholic educational interests , he served on the senate of the Royal University of Ireland ( 1883–4 ) , the National Education Board ( 1895–1901 ) , and the senate of the National University of Ireland of which , in 1908 , he became the first chancellor . |
| 29 | ‘ There is as much concern in Pelkosenniemi about what is proposed for their holy mountain as there is in Mayo and throughout the West of Ireland over what is proposed for Croagh Patrick . |
| 30 | Gladstone was dogged by the problems of Ireland to which his sense of duty drew him . |