Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 2 | ‘ Hmm , ’ said Faye , after what seemed like several minutes . |
| 3 | Ideally , we should like the government to ensure that the economy is on the Pareto-efficient frontier , shown in Figure 15–2 , but take responsibility for making the value judgement about which point on this frontier the economy should attain . |
| 4 | He was as usual training his sights exclusively on the goal currently in view , in this case the unification of South Africa , the kindergarten campaign for which seemed at that moment to require a concession to Afrikaner racial prejudice . |
| 5 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 6 | Those in search of the classical paradise of golden beaches and tranquillity must treat Tahiti merely as a landing stage , and move on to better things , to nearby coral islands , lagoons and atolls , all of which abound in this part of the Pacific . |
| 7 | The pair , who work in the Process Studies department at Harwell , made a lot of contacts — a few of which resulted in more work for AEA — when researching the manual . |
| 8 | On this tray are four drilled 2¼″ diameter pipes , each of which slide inside another pipe to act as a reusable cartridge . |
| 9 | The rector of Weston-Longville in Norfolk was well placed to appreciate the contrast between the six-figure income of Prinny at Carlton House , the building of which accounted for much of his debt , and the nine pounds annual wage he paid his servant Ben Leggatt . |
| 10 | As in the case of developed countries ( section 6.2.2 ) , the major agents of soil erosion are wind and water , the efficiency of which depends on many other factors such as angle of slope , land-use and vegetation cover ( see Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 11 | They need regular injections of Factor 8 , some of which came into this country infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 12 | , mill manager at that time , is pictured third from left , front row , immediately in front of ( wearing glasses ) of which owned at that time . |
| 13 | Grants for ploughing grassland and cereal deficiency payments made barley more profitable than sheep , numbers of which fell by more than half between 1926 and 1954 . |
| 14 | Recent reports following scandals and appalling practice have made recommendations on how to improve the service , most of which remain in some minister 's waste bin . |
| 15 | If we now consider where trajectories came from , we can divide the four shaded areas into horizontal bands , each of which corresponds to some finite history . |
| 16 | the lighting equipment of which required by these Regulations to be fitted , namely … ( here specify ) |
| 17 | ‘ the lighting equipment of which required by these Regulations to be fitted , namely … ( here specify ) |
| 18 | ‘ the lighting equipment of which required by these Regulations to be fitted , namely … ( here specify ) This point is proved by showing whatever is specified is the lamp or reflector in question , e.g , the obligatory front nearside lamp or the rear offside reflector etc . |
| 19 | Karl , his head turned steadily to his right , peered intently at the run-down flats and battered buildings and factories lining small side-streets , each and every one of which ended in that apparently insignificant , almost unobtrusive wall of grey concrete blocks . |
| 20 | Francis and Wollen have also contributed articles ( one each ) both of which appear in both books as introductory statements on the Situationist International . |
| 21 | The problem of what to do about those who happened to own this ‘ natural monopoly ’ , thus levying a toll on the rest of the economy , therefore seemed relatively manageable . |
| 22 | If you have never had to think of it before , the prospect of what to do with several thousand pounds can seem a very daunting challenge . |
| 23 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 24 | It can be argued that the art of the actor is but a sophisticated reflection of what occurs in all human action : a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled ( using ‘ symbolic ’ in the sense of the ‘ public language ’ of number , words , gesture and sound , etc. ) , a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying . |
| 25 | Although Brihtwine was eventually reinstated after Ælfmær vexed the Sherborne flock , went blind and returned to Canterbury , one would gladly know more of what lay behind this . |
| 26 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |
| 27 | I was perking up under the influence of what seemed like half a ton of protein . |
| 28 | We can conveniently neglect the question of what happens to all the assertive little boys and cooperative little girls when they leave the arena of childhood play and enter the adult world . |
| 29 | Kelman stands much closer to the new hero , and more is made of what happens in that hero 's head . |
| 30 | Despite the lack of studies , much of what follows in this book derives from the application of theories of play to the study of reading . |