Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People born profoundly deaf , or who become so in early childhood , may well not develop intelligible speech . |
| 2 | You never thought of O as someone who was with people or who went home with people , and he never seemed to be looking round for someone all the time , which is how most of us must have appeared . |
| 3 | It is notable that students with no qualifications or who enter only on the basis of O-levels have relatively high non-completion rates , while students entering on the basis of one A-level or Access courses have completion rates which are marginally better than A-level entrants . |
| 4 | Before that it had belonged to Mr Surtees Raine , who was head of a private school at Norton , and who lived there from about the outbreak of the 1939–45 War . |
| 5 | I believe that the shop in those days belonged to a Mr Chatto , who was youngish and obliging and who seemed permanently to by pushing through an avalanche of books . |
| 6 | Four months ago at Maastricht , Mr Major was the new boy , the cadet among titans who had led their countries for 10 years or more : Kohl , Mitterrand and Andreotti , men who shared a vision of a tightly-integrated monetary and political union and who rode roughshod over Britain . |
| 7 | And who looked thus at her mother — what had she seen ? |
| 8 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 9 | The part fits Fox 's mannered but magnetic acting style perfectly , and between them , he and the author have succeeded in making a great comic character out of a man who does almost nothing at all and who speaks only in cheery formulae , and yet has strange powers of happiness denied to those more vulnerable to the wear and tear of life . |
| 10 | The desperation of people who ca n't afford to live on the pay that they are earning and who look forward to any means of change in that with hope and with optimism because things could n't get worse . |
| 11 | Sally Hawes , the Secretary , is a young woman , recently married , who trained as a stenographer and who worked previously for a building firm . |
| 12 | In March , Boesky is the star witness at the trial of Michael Milken , the junk bond king who faces 98 charges of securities fraud and who worked closely with the disgraced arbitrageur . |
| 13 | Despite this apparent vagueness there came into existence a body of individuals who may be referred to collectively as " the Left " , who were described as such by themselves and by their opponents and who acted together during the 1930s on most political issues . |
| 14 | The collection was the life 's work of Kermit Weeks , an unassuming , astute , private man who wanted to share his love of aviation and his appreciation for fine aircraft with the world and who did so through his Museum . |
| 15 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 16 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will agree that we should be grateful to the vast majority of staff who work in children 's homes and who deal daily with children who , almost by definition , are difficult and disturbed . |
| 17 | This report describes the case of a patient who was initially diagnosed and treated as having coeliac disease and lymphocytic gastritis but who responded poorly to a gluten free diet . |
| 18 | This was a band inspired into existence by The Sex Pistols , but who had more in common with Sabbath , Hawkwind , Hendrix , Pink Floyd … |
| 19 | By this means , a student who suffers badly from " exam nerves ' may benefit from having obtained good essay or project marks ; conversely , students who dislike preparing written work on their own but who respond well under the time pressure of an " unseen " exam may also do well . |
| 20 | The nonexistent reductionist — the sort that everybody is against , but who exists only in their imaginations — tries to explain complicated things directly in terms of the smallest parts , even , in some extreme versions of the myth , as the sum of the parts ! |
| 21 | There are many people around who call a spade a spade , but who do so in such a rude , offensive way , that this kind of plain-speaking becomes something to be avoided . |
| 22 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 23 | But who time past with present will compare |