Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where redemption did go into effect immediately , the peasantry soon found their allotments inadequate , and their land hunger was exacerbated by a massive population increase which averaged about 1.5 per cent per year in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | We 've currently been allocated just over one point three million from the housing corporation which represents about forty one percent of the money that we need to do the scheme . |
| 3 | One way to avoid selective cover only would be for the government to insist on a compulsory levy on all commercial insurance policies , and this has been suggested by the Association of Insurers and Risk Manager in Industry and Commerce ( AIRMIC ) which represents about 300 UK insurance buyers . |
| 4 | The Erdenet copper mine , which produces about half of Mongolia 's exports , shuts down for hours each day . |
| 5 | Originally the family owned the whole island , which holds about four farms , but those have all been sold off now , and there 's no land except the stretch from Otters ' Bay to the other end of the machair . |
| 6 | He told a news conference after the meeting : ‘ We must all agree that there should be only one nuclear state ’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , apparently referring to Russia , which holds about 17,000 nuclear warheads . |
| 7 | The largest store of freshwater is in glaciers and icecaps — particularly in Antarctica — which holds about 30 million cubic kilometres of water as ice . |
| 8 | Liz tops up with another vodka with lime and soda , followed by a can of Tennent 's Pilsner which contains about four units or 60mg of alcohol . |
| 9 | It 's part of what 's called the local group of galaxies which contains about thirty galaxies . |
| 10 | By extending the region of interest to include the Virgo cluster which contains about 2000 galaxies the rate rises to one every few days , a more tempting prospect . |
| 11 | Knowledge of the currents is important to scientists studying the ebb and flow of the Antarctic ice sheet which contains about 90 per cent of the world 's ice . |
| 12 | Many other inmates were injured during the fighting , which involved about 200 people . |
| 13 | The Co-op even commissioned their own film in 1966 entitled The Coachbuilders which involved about 20 carriages being driven round Edinburgh 's New Town on a Sunday morning . |
| 14 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 15 | The weights are determined from the results of the annual Family Expenditure Survey which covers about 7,000 households selected from all parts of the UK : each member of the household over sixteen years of age is asked to provide information on his or her spending behaviour over a period of a fortnight and also to describe any longer-term expenditures . |
| 16 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 17 | The KPNLF , which has about 7,000 men , had until recently been dismissed by military analysts as a badly organised force more interested in black-market activities across the Thai-Cambodia border than military operations . |
| 18 | The Scottish Civic Trust 's call for action was welcomed last night by Gavin Stamp of the Alexander Thomson Society , formed two years ago , which has about 500 members . |
| 19 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 20 | Alpha is being developed for systems like the US Advanced Tactical Fighter , which has about 20 real-time computer systems on board , the NASA space station , and possibly the Strategic Defense Initiative . |
| 21 | C. The Central Lowlands is a rift valley which sank about 320 million years ago . |
| 22 | However , before that , in two days ’ time , on the Feast of St Leo the Great , you will meet Irvine , My Lord Cardinal 's spy , at Coldstream Priory which lies about thirty miles from here . |
| 23 | They did visit Cawdor Castle , which lies about six miles south-south-west of Nairn , reached by the B9090 and linking with the B9191 to the village of Cawdor . |
| 24 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 25 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 26 | One rather unusual feature is the Whin Common , which lies about half a mile to the north of the village . |
| 27 | When discovered , the wreck was thought to be another English naval ship , the Dartmouth , most of which lies about half a mile away . |
| 28 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Seoul said the 12 Chinese arrived on Tuesday on Cheju Island , which lies about 60 miles off Korea 's south-west coast . |
| 29 | Another feature which has to be explained is the emplacement of massive granite intrusions of various ages which cover about 464 000 km 2 ( about 15 per cent ) of the surface of the range ; this probably represents a volume in excess of 2x106km 3 — the greatest mass of granite intrusions on Earth . |
| 30 | In reality the impact of illicit drug misuse on the rest of society is fairly minor compared with the effect of alcohol , and is far less of a public health hazard than that commonest of all drugs , tobacco , a legal substance which kills about 100,000 in Britain every year . |