Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among his sacred possessions were an enormous club which could raise the slain to life again ; a magic harp whose music made its listeners forget sorrow ; an inexhaustible cauldron from which no-one is turned away hungry ; and two marvellous sheep — one eternally roasting , the other forever feeding in readiness for slaughter . |
| 2 | * The Annual Lourdes Reunion for the Feast Day will be held in St Mary 's Cathedral , Coulby Newham , with Mass at 7pm to which everyone is invited — sick and healthy — Lourdes pilgrims and friends . |
| 3 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 4 | Aleksandr Nikitenko , the liberally inclined censor , confided to his diary that " such incidents involving government officials only demonstrate the deep , pervasive immorality to which everyone is accustomed here " . |
| 5 | And and of the SOED discuss the topic which everyone is having to come to terms with — ‘ Educational Audit , Performance Indicators and School Improvement ’ . |
| 6 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 7 | Against both Yeovil and Scarborough we are prepared to accept a David and Goliath situation in which everyone is pulling for little David . ’ |
| 8 | Braughing seems to contain a courtyard structure about which nothing is known , while a building at Cave 's Inn is also difficult to interpret . |
| 9 | Consider any complex property which someone is tempted to identify with good . |
| 10 | The promoters tell us that it 's not like a book in which someone is telling you something . |
| 11 | Office : a relatively permanent position within the social structure to which someone is appointed or qualified , for example , electrician , nurse , pilot |
| 12 | Here is an example , from one of our front-room tapes , in which someone is answering a question about why football is not so popular nowadays . |
| 13 | It is difficult and probably impossible to allow people thus abused to make statements in the press which can only interfere with the process of justice by which someone is tried . |
| 14 | And on the mantelpiece there is a book , Marilyn French 's The Women 's Room which somebody is reading . |
| 15 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 16 | The group which is relevant to the discussion of support is ‘ effective ’ kin , which itself is composed of an inner and an outer circle . |
| 17 | mild contains yet another type of sugar called lactose , which itself is composed of two single units of sugar : glucose and galactose . |
| 18 | The magnetopause marks the inner boundary of the agitated region which itself is called the magnetosheath . |
| 19 | Someone has to do it , and given the sexual division of labour which itself is reinforced by urban planning ( Harman , 1983 ) , it will usually be left to the women . |
| 20 | This is made by adding water to ethylene gas , which itself is obtained from oil . |
| 21 | This provides for a supply of very good quality water to the main river , which itself is used as potable supply . |
| 22 | Like a number of other cultural forms , popular music in the west is dominated by a commercial market system , which itself is dominated by a handful of transnational companies . |
| 23 | The problem then is to explain how the state came to be formed historically , through the dissolution of the primitive communal group ; and a broadly Marxist account of this process ( leaving aside here the diverse interpretations and controversies among Marxist sociologists and anthropologists ) rests essentially upon the conception of a change in the mode of production , involving a greater inequality of property , which itself is brought about by a development of the forces of production through technological progress . |
| 24 | The history of the evolution of labour is , from The German Ideology on , linked with a discussion of the increased division of labour , which itself is linked with increasing technological complexity . |
| 25 | Cos , of course , the West Essex management staff have been co saddled with another project which is to provide a trust for the East Herts and West Essex health providers , i.e. P A H and associated health services providers and surprise surprise ! in this council chamber Chief Executive of the West Essex Health Authority has become the Chief Executive of the provider trust despite that , it 's not gon na be approved by the Secretary of State , but certainly a conference which she 's speaking at in , she is named as the Chief Executive ! |
| 26 | The preferred route is through her farm , which she 's farmed organically since 1935 . |
| 27 | The wife poses against the bright red carpet and lime green sofa which she 's chosen and goes on about her husband 's appalling colour sense . |
| 28 | for his firm , erm , he said I 'll , I will see to it , which she 's doing at the moment but , but erm , I do n't know how far |
| 29 | A courtesan , an expensive courtesan , who drenches herself in sandalwood oil to cover the nauseating stench of the bedbugs with which she is infested . |
| 30 | She has won awards for many of the sporting activities in which she is involved . |