Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 October , 1979 STEPHEN SPENDER , teaching in Lynchburg , Virginia , writes in his journal : ‘ My class , which I took last night , seems irremediable . |
| 2 | This was the only one of the three language efforts for which I received any payment ; in this case an honorarium from the Burma Government of thirty pounds . |
| 3 | One of the earliest was the study by Gagné and Baker ( 1950 ) with which I began this chapter ( fig. 5.1 ) , this study being designed to show that training in applying a different verbal label to each of the various stimulus lights would produce differentiation among them that would transfer to a subsequent motor task . |
| 4 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 5 | To make the top rectangular picture , I used a card mount in palest pink , behind which I stretched some cream silk . |
| 6 | For the central , gold oval design , I used a dusty pink satin backing , on to which I arranged some cow parsley leaves , gypsophila , small ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ red roses , some ‘ Princess ’ pink potentillas and astrantia . |
| 7 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 8 | In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong . |
| 9 | In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon . |
| 10 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 11 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 12 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
| 13 | They sent Respighi 's music , Pines of the Appian Way , marching through my head , to which I gave bass accompaniment with my hat . |
| 14 | In the group to which I paid closest attention my surprise was more at the unremarkable calibre of several who did get through than at any apparently unfairly rejected . |
| 15 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 16 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 17 | The fourth question with which I started this chapter concerns the maintenance of a different chemical composition in different places . |
| 18 | The cellular and biochemical changes which must be translated into behavioural processes such as memory formation must be precisely located in space and time , as the criteria with which I started this chapter have emphasized . |
| 19 | One of the quantitative consequences of this which I mentioned last week and I , I think may have been misunderstood is what is called variance of reproductive success . |
| 20 | Incidentally , the golden eagle which I mentioned last week did not reappear in Yorkshire 's Nidderdale where it spent at least five days , but it was finally relocated . |
| 21 | This chapter , therefore , examines some of the ways in which I conducted this work by focusing on teachers ' appointments and teachers ' work in Bishop McGregor School . |
| 22 | But the kind of criticism which I termed external critique is much less conditioned by the object under review and its conventional disciplinary home . |
| 23 | The card background I used for this photo frame was an extremely pale peachy pink , on which I placed some rose leaves , heuchera flowers and green spiky leaves , with ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ roses forming the central focus . |
| 24 | Now , another consequence of this way of er looking at it again , something to which I referred last week , is what is known as the Trivers Willard . |
| 25 | I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier . |
| 26 | Oxford , Bristol — which I visited last week — and Newcastle are suffering great problems . |
| 27 | The Marshall MIDI preamp which I reviewed last month represents one approach to this ‘ new ’ technology : hybrid construction ( a couple of 12AX7/ECC83s ) , a simple layout , plus part push-button and part rotary controls . |
| 28 | Accomplished headers of the ball were less likely to suffer injury than those who were not as proficient , because they met the ball in a way which which imparted less strain . |
| 29 | Can you remember the circumstances under which you wrote this poem ? |
| 30 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |