Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But despite his faults — which I confess were many — he was adept at killing . |
| 2 | Which I know is all a lot of money and let me just tell you here , what we have spent this year on advertising . |
| 3 | Erm within the six to ten mile band there are just two er fairly small er areas er which I believe are both less than ten acres in extent . |
| 4 | which I think is that way |
| 5 | and proposals and I 'd like to start with a vote just to find out what kind of hundred this is , do you have a driving licence ? , button one for yes and button two for no seventy two of this hundred have a driving licence which I think is some way above the National average , let me ask you do you have the use of a car or other vehicle whenever you want it ? , button one for yes and button two for no and of seventy two er licence holders , sixty three have the use of a car which again I think is some way over the National average , now what cars do you have ? , now let see what people are driving here there |
| 6 | Ken commented earlier that er er prior to the Financial Services Act coming into force which I think was some time in nineteen eighty-eight , the er D T I was responsible and there come back to the D T I if these sort of things had applied and er compensation effectively by the D T I for mal-administration or whatever so that er say we do n't pretend to be pension experts , so any retrospection that I would suggest might well be appropriate as at the date of the Financial Services Act becoming into force . |
| 7 | Which I suppose is some sort of ability |
| 8 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 9 | The hypocrite offers the gull a surface falseness which he penetrates to discover ‘ a truth ’ , but which we know is another falseness . |
| 10 | In such a circumstance a quantity rule has to be adopted in order to determine what actual output will be , and the one which we adopted was that actual output would equal the level of demand , thus obliging firms to produce and sell more than they initially considered optimal at the price set . |
| 11 | The major premise from which we start is that prenominal attribution and postnominal attribution involve , respectively , qualification and assignment . |
| 12 | Nevertheless the evidence which we have is enough to show that the situation in Merovingian Francia may not have been so very different from Visigothic Spain , where kings are well known to have been closely involved in the major ecclesiastical councils of the kingdom . |
| 13 | As Derek Hatton , Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council put it , ‘ We 'd want to make sure that … those who are employed to manage and carry out the policies which we decide are those who are in general sympathy with those policies ’ ( Gyford , 1985b , p. 58 ) . |
| 14 | In Chapter 1 we argued that conscious awareness , the images and representations that people use to communicate with each other and the various forms of deliberate planning and foresight which they use are all partly a result of the myriad social relationships in which they are caught up , and partly a product of deep-rooted instincts and emotions . |
| 15 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 16 | The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution . |
| 17 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 18 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 19 | The air which he breathed was that of the famous treatise on the resting places of the old English saints , and of the days when , in Eadmer 's words , ‘ it was the custom of the English to prefer the patronage of the saints to every worldly aid ’ . |
| 20 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 21 | Such sharing of the superego constitutes what we call religion ; and the particular religious form which he assumed was that of the animal totem , a choice appropriate in the new hunting culture and a consequence of the fact that the primal father had been the last of the truly animal hominids . |
| 22 | Later , however , Thomas Cromwell was sympathetic to the Reformers ; indeed the policy which he pursued was that which Tyndale had advocated in The Obedience of a Christian Man — ‘ One King , one law in the realm : no class of men exempt from the temporal sword ’ . |
| 23 | Weekly cash wages payment is likely to rule out credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts , The forms of credit which it encourages are those involving weekly instalments : mail order , trading checks , tallymen and weekly credit callers . |
| 24 | Nah , but he , he do , what I mean is some people enjoy |
| 25 | We follow the building of the hotel , we follow the bank robbers ’ plans , and at the end of the book there are what I hope are some not too implausible twists and turns . ’ |
| 26 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 27 | This equipment I kept for about three years , although I never forgot the quality of the original sounds I 'd heard , so I decided to invest in what I thought was some serious equipment . |
| 28 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 29 | Well what I saw was some tail lights going along the road . |
| 30 | But I I do n't erm from the nature of Mr Justice in the Midland Bank that there 's a a well known but w what I say is that in this case er what your Lordship will be dealing with are essentially what are matters of practice for conveyancing solicitors when faced particularly with clients er making financial arrangements to enter into this and the duties of in that particular situation . |