Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By devising an oral rehydration solution made from home ingredients , the problem of cost was ( partially at least ) solved , as was the problem of supplying pre-packaged Oral Rehydration Salts to a population 92% of whom lived in rural areas where transportation was generally very poor . |
| 2 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 3 | both of whom phoned in this afternoon . |
| 4 | The event , sponsored by the Cooperative Bank and organised by the town 's recreation department , attracts entries from all over the country , many of whom run in fancy dress for their favourite charities . |
| 5 | Many women are in employment but women also make up 60 per cent of Britain 's six million carers , many of whom look after elderly relatives . |
| 6 | Among the guests were thousands of plain-clothes police and out-of-uniform soldiers , some of whom arrived in military trucks , dressed as clowns . |
| 7 | How many Northern Ireland Members who agreed with Labour Members and opposed the privatisation of Shorts and of Harland and Wolff would do so now ? |
| 8 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 9 | This level of activity stands in marked contrast to that of the very few working class women who qualified under local government franchises ( although increasing numbers became Guardians after 1894 , when the property qualification was abolished ) , who squeezed in two or three hours Poor Law work on a Saturday between household chores . |
| 10 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
| 11 | Parents of children who qualified for secondary education signed an undertaking that the child would complete the course , and they could be fined if they failed to keep their word . |
| 12 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 13 | So 57 against her equals a net gain , ’ said another So who wins from this week 's mini-drama ? |
| 14 | The reason given for this change is that there was recent wide coverage in the press of the case of an American paramedic who succeeded by fraudulent means in obtaining limited registration from the council . |
| 15 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 16 | While the paths b 1 and b 2 are the focus of our attention , it is also important to remember the other causes which lead to people attending selective secondary schools : class membership is not a complete determinant of who goes to these schools , since some working class children do attend . |
| 17 | Who goes to orchestral concerts , who goes to opera , to ballet , to the cinema ? |
| 18 | Already , and much publicised , we have the Tanzanian alternative whereby cumulative records of performance and teachers ' reports have been used alongside examination marks to determine who goes to secondary school . |
| 19 | Dayflower , who goes for next week 's May Hill Stakes at Doncaster , was impressive on the gallops yesterday and the step up to a mile is expected to suit her admirably . |
| 20 | The type of person who goes on this holiday is almost certainly gon na be a psychocentric . |
| 21 | The type of person who goes on this holiday to destinations for example want somewhere unusual perhaps to India , is more likely to be an alocentric person cos they 're getting away from the crowds . |
| 22 | So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts . |
| 23 | The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings . |
| 24 | A study of child prostitution in Britain , America and West Germany reports that ‘ every runaway child who goes into full-time child prostitution has a history of continual and profound family conflict ’ ( Sereny , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone who goes into this trade wants to think very carefully about it . ’ |
| 26 | I thought I would like to write about north and south , rich and poor , working-class and middle-class , so I had the idea of a working-class character , not from the south-east , who goes into different backgrounds . ’ |
| 27 | I believe Boycott has not been asked because his approach to coaching Test players conflicts with the contract with sponsors Whittingdale , who insist on paid coaches wearing sponsored equipment and sticking to rigid schedules . |
| 28 | So , whilst in the foregoing passage repressed homosexuality is construed as a cause of a violent and neurotic racism , elsewhere Fanon regards manifest homosexuality as an effect of the same neurotic racism , though now in a masochistic rather than a sadistic form , and especially the masochistic relation of the white man to the black man : ‘ There are , for instance , men who go to ‘ houses ' ’ in order to be beaten by negroes ; passive homosexuals who insist on black partners ' ( pp. 158 , 156 , 177 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The military are now occupying the national radio and television networks , and forcibly replacing journalists who insist on editorial independence and objectivity , ’ he writes . |
| 30 | He already has a conception of Scarpia , a cunning brute who veers from calculated anger to cool appraisal of Tosca 's bottom while her lover is being tortured . |