Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boxer alternately whistled and sang above the noise of the cart , familiar songs and ballads the words of which Denis allowed his mind to echo in a silent duet . |
| 2 | The efficiency with which money performs its functions is greatly dependent upon the stability of its purchasing power . |
| 3 | But anyway , he came up on the Monday er sorry , on the Friday when they was paying out , he said , Which chappie paid you ? |
| 4 | ‘ Which story do you want , my friend ? |
| 5 | Any room into which Harvey put his typewriter he called his office . |
| 6 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 7 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 8 | In which case following him around is a waste of time . |
| 9 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 10 | The direction in which the carriage knits or slips is controlled by which Part button you choose on the Brother , which Empty control on the Toyota and the positions of the side levers on the Knitmaster and Silver machines . |
| 11 | ‘ Which part did they go to ? ’ |
| 12 | A succession of rescheduling deals , known by the places — Toronto , Trinidad — in which creditors dreamt them up , have been proposed in recent years . |
| 13 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 14 | Which level have you got to ? |
| 15 | That there is no third kind is crucial for the denial that Reason has the sort of task which Newton assigned it in detecting the underlying order of things . |
| 16 | While one has to admire the contortions into which employers forced themselves to go to prove that their current practice was rational , coherent and best for all concerned , one feels they do protest too much . |
| 17 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 18 | Bobby Hunt never forgot the agitation with which Minton told him how , on visiting the house of a friend whose wife had recently shot herself , his eye fell on a piece of skull left unnoticed under the piano . |
| 19 | Ricky was not long out of the navy , training as a body builder , doing carpentry , and also working on the door at clubs , as he was saving for a motor bike which Minton helped him to buy . |
| 20 | Yeah , well which bit have you got there ? |
| 21 | Which bit do you want ? |
| 22 | The study was somewhat cluttered with furniture and around the walls were various glass cases in which Eugénie kept her treasured possessions . |
| 23 | Elsewhere in the interview Derrida invokes his key word ‘ play ’ in much the same sense in which Arnold employed it in the ‘ free play of mind ’ . |
| 24 | The evening will usually develop into an informal session of communal singing in which groups contribute their own original ( and adapted ) poetry and song about their own struggles etc . |
| 25 | If the truth of this presupposition were doubted , it could be established by reference to actual practice : to the way in which courts identify what is to count as law , and to the general acceptance of or acquiescence in these identifications … |
| 26 | From the very beginning of his career as a trade union official he had envisaged that the ideal situation would be one in which neither employer nor union attempted to dominate the employment situation , but in which both sides met on a conciliation board and jointly regulated the terms and conditions under which seamen followed their vocation and perhaps even the rates at which freight and passengers were transported . |
| 27 | Manipulating these crystals by hand with the dissecting tools which biologists use it was quite obvious that their strength was negligible . |
| 28 | The apparent ease of his contrapuntal textures , too , is another example of art concealing art : a moment 's listening behind the quiet , untrammelled ease with which Jenkins expresses himself reveals the downright mastery involved . |
| 29 | One might define the lines which form the cube 's sides as the shortest distances between pairs of points ; but this would not express their motive cause which Hobbes conceives them to have . |
| 30 | The current traditional system of approving individual courses is clearly inadequate : it neither takes into account the way in which institutions manage their total resources , nor allows a rapid response to fast changing circumstances . |