Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun pl] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manifest dream that is available for recall is thus a compromise , whereby the wish-fulfilments have been disguised . |
| 2 | The mechanism whereby the somites develop is still not well understood . |
| 3 | How the tasks have been performed , and what members of the family feel about the ‘ new ’ way of doing things , can then become the starting point of the next family meeting , leading to new understandings being discussed and new , more subtle tasks being developed . |
| 4 | The first is to locate what is happening in the NHS to a broader ideological , economic , social and political context , and the second is to explain in some detail how the reforms have been implemented and what their current status is . |
| 5 | Thus there was no House of Commons scrutiny of public expenditure and virtually no understanding of how the decisions had been reached . |
| 6 | Just historically how the prices have been |
| 7 | Interestingly enough , the Monday after the first episode was shown , a film company rang us up to ask how the titles had been done . |
| 8 | Mr Brown refused to say how the papers had been shown to him or to disclose their further contents . |
| 9 | Chart 1 shows how the non-conformances have been reduced since 1989 , when we were dealing with over 300 different hauliers . |
| 10 | A ‘ my-sterious ’ red car driven by a young man sped away from the spot as the mare was found ; but it was not yet clear how the wounds had been inflicted . |
| 11 | She turned back the sleeves to see exactly how the cuffs had been sewn in . |
| 12 | Crucial to an understanding of the human mosaic , therefore , is appreciation of how the opportunities have been identified and acted upon , and how the barriers posed by the constraints have been tackled . |
| 13 | He first described this in Noctambules which showed how the characters portrayed were manipulated by the Hypnotist . |
| 14 | The embarrassed staff related the sorry saga of how the seats had been removed to make way for cargo . |
| 15 | Third , although some comparison between my present experience and others is necessary for me to know what words to use in description , and although such comparison , especially in the case where the objects compared are a past and a present experience , is fallible ( since memory is fallible ) , still the comparison is not what I am trying to express when I try to express my beliefs about my present experience alone . |
| 16 | Learning from France , where the games had been concentrated on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts , in Italy the organisers instead decided to spread the games across the country from Sardinia and Sicily to Abruzzi and Venice . |
| 17 | The only free places were where the swans have been . |
| 18 | This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time . |
| 19 | ‘ ( a ) where the goods have been sold without any stipulation as to credit ; ( b ) where the goods have been sold on credit , but the term of credit has expired ; ( c ) where the buyer becomes insolvent . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ ( a ) where the goods have been sold without any stipulation as to credit ; ( b ) where the goods have been sold on credit , but the term of credit has expired ; ( c ) where the buyer becomes insolvent . ’ |
| 21 | He could see men coming away now , too , from where the ships had been put : the first job , and the heaviest he had shared with his father . |
| 22 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 23 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 24 | As the effect is due to lack of information rather than any hard evidence of the situation , it can be removed by ensuring that everyone knows where the resources have been allocated and why . |
| 25 | ( The floods , incidentally , are increasingly catastrophic because of the poor or non-existent conservation policy in the catchment areas where the forests have been recklessly and wantonly felled . |
| 26 | When the Friar reached the point where the horses had been caught and where Marian and Hugh escaped into the woods he was barely half-an-hour behind them . |
| 27 | They were called back again later to concrete the area where the horses had been buried fears of health hazards had been expressed because Mr Edelson had not had the animals preserved in any way . |
| 28 | This was the road where the bagpipes had been hit by a piece of shrapnel . |
| 29 | They had a post office in that location ; it had been there protected under Treaty and by the League of Nations for nearly 20 years , and that was where the stamps had been issued . |
| 30 | He had hardly finished his remark when there was a terrifying roar overhead as a salvo of shells crashed into the area near to where the Germans had been mortaring . |