Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [noun] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These seem to have increased in number since the Support Services Review , and some have only tangential relevance ( if any ) to the sorts of enquiries which my staff can routinely handle . |
| 2 | The vivid proliferation of these fantasies had seemed to Franca to represent her final degradation , the end of her sanity , the cell in which her husband would ultimately immure her to whimper away what remained of her life . |
| 3 | With respect to the central issue there is a curious conflict of authority which their Lordships must now resolve . |
| 4 | Groups evolve expected ways to behave which their members must normally obey . |
| 5 | Because the current courses will then be withdrawn , arrangements will be made to give students one opportunity , beyond the diet of examinations at which their course would normally have finished , to satisfy the conditions of award for the course . |
| 6 | Because the current courses will then be withdrawn , arrangements will be made to give students one opportunity , beyond the diet of examinations at which their course would normally have finished , to satisfy the conditions of award for the course . |
| 7 | Almost all mundane objects possess some kind of biography through which their significance may radically alter . |
| 8 | She wanted all poor people to have a floor below which their wages could never fall . |
| 9 | Once appointed , members operate as individuals rather than delegates and serve for an initial term of two years , which their district may then extend by two additional terms to six years in all . |
| 10 | To lawyers the challenge became how to find loopholes in existing contracts , through which their clients could either escape , or drive a series of new demands . |
| 11 | The world of multiple scents , like that of three-dimensional sonar is not one into which we humans can readily project our minds . |
| 12 | Their proposals have led the Hungarian Trade Minister , Peter Akos Bod , to draw uncomfortable parallels between the Community which his country may eventually be allowed to join and the Comecon which it recently left . |
| 13 | It will determine , in many cases , the earliest date at which his release can even be considered by the local review committee or the Parole Board , subject only to an overriding discretion of the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 15 | For a moment he let himself imagine he was some great explorer about to enter a hostile , unknown land on which his name would later be stamped for all history . |
| 16 | And enjoying his own agonizing neverending penance , of which his Marines could only whisper with awe . |
| 17 | In addition , Franco would appoint the members of a Council of the Realm , to which his successor would eventually be responsible , and would also designate a Council of Regency , which would take his place until a successor was chosen , in the event that the Caudillo died without naming one . |
| 18 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 19 | Rot on the vine ’ ) , its heedlessness ( ‘ with careless hand ’ ) , and its enervation ( its land is ‘ tired ’ , its conquest of that terrain ‘ unmanned ’ ) — that he would like if he could to unravel the threads of history , and become again a citizen of that Old World which his ancestors should never have left . |
| 20 | Since Mr Johnson died before the museum was built , he could have had no way of knowing the context in which his collection would eventually be shown . |
| 21 | The rampant inflation that followed Henry VIII 's currency speculations and which his successors could hardly limit hit them most of all . |
| 22 | The questions which our proposal can usefully address are : ( i ) Will it lead to any discriminating predictions about observable data which differ from what would be expected under the assumption that postnominals are simply normal attributive adjectives ? ( ii ) How might our claim relate to the characteristics of postnominal attributives discussed in Sections 3.5 to 3.7 ? ( iii ) Can it cast any light in particular on the fact that only a subset of adjectives can occur as postnominal attributives ? |
| 23 | It 's nice to know that our goldfish will potentially be hardy but as actual or potential goldfish keepers we are primarily concerned with establishing conditions in which our fish will actually flourish . |
| 24 | While on sick leave , you must not work for another employer and should not engage in activities which your illness would normally prevent and which could therefore raise doubts about the nature of your illness . |
| 25 | You might also try to use an edition which your reader can independently get hold of , so that she or he can check what you say . |
| 26 | Double Gloucester and new Lancashire are the more conventionally accepted cheeses vintages which your dairyman can usually supply for toasting or for English Welsh Rabbit . |
| 27 | I 'm saying no matter what my mum would never let me come for an hour , two hour . |
| 28 | This is what my strategy will eventually be . |
| 29 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 30 | An indication as to what his position would logically have had to be , had he not held these false presuppositions , is evident from his discussion of the validity of baptism when administered by a woman . |