Example sentences of "[Wh det] of course [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same can probably be claimed for those who for reasons which had little to do with humanitarian concern — fearing Jewish revenge in the event of a lost war , or blaming Hitler for bringing on the war through attacking the Jews , attitudes which of course themselves betrayed the influence of Nazi ‘ Jewish conspiracy ’ propaganda — were voicing criticism of Nazi anti Jewish policy . |
| 2 | The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not . |
| 3 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 4 | In fact they deserved every sympathy but they succeeded only in making themselves look obstructive and unreconstructed , relics of the pre-meritocratic days before the Heineken League , which of course they fought until the last ditch was so full of water they had to jump out . |
| 5 | What happened when trains from the two lines converged on Pittsburgh , which of course they did , utterly confused and bewildered the poor steel-workers and their families and all the other benighted souls whose destination this was . |
| 6 | It appears that the fighters missed Fuchida 's flare and he had to fire a second , this was unfortunate as the firing of two flares meant that they had not surprised the Americans , which of course they had . |
| 7 | Thus , we can not predict social events with absolute certainty and have to couch our forecasts in terms of probabilities , provided other factors do not change , which of course they can . |
| 8 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 9 | But they assured him that they could take that part of it out , which of course they did . |
| 10 | said , they 've said , removed one Statesman of a telephone and then provided one Statesman telephone which of course they |
| 11 | Jenny reappeared soon enough and she suggested that we nip down the road to a little pâtisserie she knew , which of course we did . |
| 12 | The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred . |
| 13 | Christians , which of course we all are . |
| 14 | ‘ An albatross , as I was saying , is one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one which of course we have also seen today . |
| 15 | and that 's the way its it left we left it but of course as I mentioned to him we 'd completely omitted Tats which of course we we we had n't done Tats at all . |
| 16 | Since there have been very significant changes in population structure and family composition over the last two centuries , any discussion of how family relationships have changed must always acknowledge that we are not comparing like with like — an observation which of course itself calls into question the over-simplified view of a gradual deterioration of family ties from pre-industrial society to the present day . |
| 17 | This method is particularly valuable , since it can be applied to deposits produced by prehistoric eruptions , for which of course there are no observer 's records . |
| 18 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 19 | So after a fortnight , thereabouts , the union had a meeting and decided that everybody in the industry like , which of course there was only about a thousand of us any way , everybody would s would stop until this man could start at work . |
| 20 | While the uppers often irritatingly remain almost as new as they day they came out of the box , the outsole looks as though it 's been left behind on the concrete , which of course it has . |
| 21 | ‘ It will be the end of family life as I know it , ’ he said , which of course it was . |
| 22 | Advanced root etching is shown in Fig. 1.11A , where the root marks are so extensive and overlapping that the individual marks are hard to distinguish and the whole bone appears to have been chemically corroded ( which of course it has ) . |
| 23 | Many elderly people who are in need fail to apply for a supplementary pension or allowance , because they are inclined to regard it as some kind of charity ( a much maligned word ) — which of course it is not , and there should be no loss of pride or dignity for those who apply for it . |
| 24 | The ministry 's power consists only of agreeing the number of places to be advertised , for which of course it has to pay the bill . |
| 25 | Provided that the Cabinet was aware of the company 's power , which of course it was , the company had little need to campaign or lobby for its case . |
| 26 | Indeed the gallery can be seen as if it were only ( which of course it is also ) a mere technical device for the objects to be displayed . |
| 27 | The debate we 've just had on Labour Party links raises questions , er , we believe about our attitude , our attitude , the union 's attitude to the Party , the Labour Party when it does hold power , which of course it does , er locally in some areas of this country . |
| 28 | Richard Dawkins writes very well about this , I mean , he makes complete , he shows that Lamarckism is total nonsense , er , which of course it is . |
| 29 | So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be . |
| 30 | A lady today had a lunch with one of the residents , which of course I encourage . |