Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he might die , he did not much care , not , as he lay , and without protest , after what had already happened . |
| 2 | Our chances of ending the war quickly would certainly be greatly increased if the battle were won ; but if we failed to win it , even after what had already been achieved , our victory would merely be postponed and not rendered impossible , especially if we resolved in good time not to persist with our useless efforts at Verdun , but to take the initiative of attack elsewhere . |
| 3 | Contemporaries remember him coming scowling to school after what had clearly been rows with his patron . |
| 4 | He asked to switch her mind to something else , and because it was essential to leave the autobahn after what had just happened . |
| 5 | Not after what has just happened between us . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps David Hargreaves 's remarks are also somewhat speculative since they rest on no other evidence than that presented by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ( doubts about which have already been raised ) . |
| 7 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 8 | Chile and Argentina were both offered barter deals , involving the exchange of Chilean nitrates ( demand for which had recently collapsed because of German development of synthetic substitutes ) and Argentine agricultural products for Soviet crude oil , along with assistance in the setting up of their own national refineries . |
| 9 | There have been striking changes in biological productivity at higher trophic levels in the North Pacific , the mechanisms for which have yet to be fully explained . |
| 10 | There is in my view a close analogy to the right to recover money paid under a contract the consideration for which has wholly failed . |
| 11 | The implementation programme for which has now begun . |
| 12 | The layout is very similar to that of Gournia , with narrow cobbled alleys weaving irregularly among blocks of houses , many of which had rather small chambers , cellars perhaps , on the ground floor . |
| 13 | The third , Sotoo Tatsumi , was the head of the Sumitomo Bank , a former branch manager of which had illegally procured third-party loans for stock speculators . |
| 14 | The flight from womanhood was linked with the flight from failure , the fear of which had practically been bred into me . |
| 15 | Because the endoscopical findings in RP often include serpiginous ulcerations , fissures , and ileitis proximal to the pouch , the syndrome has often been attributed to underlying Crohn 's disease , the diagnosis of which had presumably been ‘ missed ’ both clinically and pathologically up to and including the time of colectomy . |
| 16 | Perhaps the best examples of this mistake were the British National Coal Board , British Steel Corporation and British Leyland , all of which had strikingly similar histories : see Higgins and Clegg , 1988 . ) |
| 17 | EC member states had committed bilateral assistance totalling ECU1,000 million to these three countries , one-third of which had reportedly already been paid out . |
| 18 | At a meeting on Jan. 6 the two leaders agreed to cancel the annual " Team Spirit " joint military exercises , the holding of which had frequently resulted in the suspension of dialogue by North Korea . |
| 19 | The remaining six telecommunications services companies , all of which had over £35m revenues , were not subdivided . |
| 20 | This book contains many descriptive data , most of which had either been previously published or confirm previous studies . |
| 21 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 22 | Some 40 countries or international banks were represented at the meeting , which was attended by an Israeli delegation and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation led by Zein Mayassi , a " diaspora Palestinian " , but boycotted by Syria and Lebanon , both of which had also boycotted the May round of multilaterals . |
| 23 | It did not conceal his monstrous organ , the end of which had temporarily found lodgement in the eye socket of the defunct toddler . |
| 24 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 25 | To be worthwhile , any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the ‘ official ’ international conferences — several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty , but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness . |
| 26 | We still grow some of the varieties listed a hundred years ago many of which had already been improved by the 1890s , some favourites like ‘ White Lisbon ’ spring onions and ‘ Scarlet Globe ’ and ‘ French Breakfast ’ radishes were also established . |
| 27 | Science was no longer a programme ; it was a great body of knowledge , parts of which had already shown themselves to be power . |
| 28 | The United States announced in April 1989 that it was concerned about the Soviet Union 's decision to sell Libya up to 15 supersonic Sukhoi Su-24D bombers , with a range of over 1,200 km , six of which had already been delivered to an air base in eastern Libya . |
| 29 | In December West Germany offered to contribute DM1,000 million towards the cost of 17 environmental projects ( six of which had already been agreed in July 1989 ) and to find jobs for 65,000 workers in seriously polluting factories which had to be shut down . |
| 30 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |