Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when children turn to secondary sources it will not be in a passive way , but with the purpose of checking ideas about which they have already talked . |
| 2 | The incident mentioned by the hon. Lady is clearly deplorable , as are the deportations that occur from time to time and the closures of universities , about which we have also protested . |
| 3 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 4 | This is a process about which we have only recently become aware . |
| 5 | The first , about which I have mainly been talking so far , is the generality , or potential for generality , of things in the world . |
| 6 | This leaves the possibility of influence at the hands of apprentices or a designer — a possibility for which we have little , if any , evidence . |
| 7 | In brief , it seems that stresses are altered according to context : we need to be able to explain how and why this happens , but this is a difficult question and one for which we have only partial answers . |
| 8 | It is time to look more closely at the imperative for which we have so far been getting along on a rough formulation , ‘ Face facts ’ . |
| 9 | We need land at our doorstep … if Russia does not want to give it to us , she will force us to undertake an expropriation proceeding , i.e. a war , for which we have long stored up the reasons … |
| 10 | Individuals often deploy enormous amounts of energy to relatively little effect because they are carrying out functions for which they have not been trained or which are inappropriate to their status . |
| 11 | At the same time the democratisation process in Eastern Europe has provided opportunities for the churches for which they have neither experience nor expertise . |
| 12 | Their working day is a succession of lessons for which they have either prepared something interesting , dug out last year 's notes , decided to just do the next bit in ‘ the book ’ , or are unprepared . |
| 13 | Wigan are still haunted by the memory of Ellery Hanley 's pelvic injury suffered while playing for Western Suburbs for which they have n't received any compensation . |
| 14 | But there is something for which I have rather more difficulty in forgiving him . |
| 15 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 16 | I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition . |
| 17 | The poor are firm : why should they be forced to solve the contradictions of a system of which they have never been the beneficiaries ? |
| 18 | And that within that Mind — of which all individual minds are a part — there are ‘ laws ’ , processes and relationships , the ramifications of which we have barely glimpsed . |
| 19 | There are three types of plate margin , two of which we have already come across . |
| 20 | But the madrigal was not merely a new art form — it had nothing in common with the trecento madrigal except the name — but a landmark in a revolution of which we have already seen the beginnings in the frottole and laudi spirituali and occasional passages in the Italian-influenced northerners from Dufay onward . |
| 21 | A look of enlightenment , the like of which we have n't seen in this entire book , appeared on his face . |
| 22 | Some of which we have n't done yet , some of which we have , so it 's up to you . |
| 23 | The removal of the Barre regime may be the end of a tyranny ; it could also be the begining of a tribal war the horrors of which we have so far only glimpsed . |
| 24 | Here it will suffice to note that this kind of investigation , employing techniques quite alien to the dominant tradition in linguistics , has revealed that conversational interaction has an elaborate and detailed structure of which we have very little conscious awareness . |
| 25 | liability beyond the minimum requirements of the Road Traffic Acts , for any motor cycle which belongs to , or is being bought by , you under a hire purchase agreement and of which you have not told us |
| 26 | Bank Chambers High Street , Newbury , Berks 19 May 1987 Dear Sir , Re : Invoice 87/625 Despite reminders , this account in respect of road transport services for £2950 ( full particulars of which you have already received ) remains unpaid . |
| 27 | This will be the subject of a presentation , of which you have already been notified , in the Lothian Regional Chambers , Parliament Square , Edinburgh on Thursday 8 April 1993 at 11.30am . |
| 28 | The sudden impact of being in a situation of which you have long dreamed is a temporary high , soon destroyed by the dread possibility of them all going away again . |
| 29 | I know from a statement made by the Secretary of State in response to the Independent article , a copy of which I have here . |
| 30 | He was describing Odd-Knut 's Volvo which arrived the next morning , the like of which I have yet to see again . |