Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plaintiffs must prove that the words of which they complain have a defamatory meaning , that the words refer to them , and that the defendant was responsible for publishing them . |
| 2 | But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations . |
| 3 | Following the further arguments of which we have had the benefit , I should find it very difficult , in conscience , to reach a conclusion adverse to the appellants on the basis of a technical rule of construction requiring me to ignore the very material which in this case indicates unequivocally which of the two possible interpretations of section 63(2) of the Act of 1976 was intended by Parliament . |
| 4 | It is a kind of given , something of which we do have direct acquaintance , but it is impossible to give any analysis of it . |
| 5 | On the English side the king 's eldest son , the Black Prince , had grown to manhood anxious to win his share of the glory and profits of war , of which he had had a taste at Crécy . |
| 6 | Besides bringing the Davidia into cultivation , his greatest introduction was perhaps Lilium regale , the most widely cultivated lily in the USA , nearly 7000 bulbs of which he arranged to have imported in 1910 . |
| 7 | Stoddart uses a rate of rainwater solution of emerged reef limestones of 10–20 mm ( 0.4–0.8 in ) per 1000 years and suggests that this is not enough to destroy reefs in glacial periods , the last of which he reckons to have lasted 60 000 years . |
| 8 | Keiran wanted to advise on unemployment , of which he has had ample experience after a severe illness . |
| 9 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 10 | This man , or beast , claimed cognisance of divers operations in the Science of Alchemie of which I have had no acquaintance . |
| 11 | The reasons have been explained in several letters to your MP or Regional Councillor on 31 March 1992 , 14 April , 6 May , 4 June and 27 August , all of which I understand have been passed to you , and directly over the phone by Mr Carter on 6 August 1992 . |
| 12 | But here in Chichester Chairman , it 's er a pretty serious situation where you 've got a a small river causing tremendous volumes of water er levels of which I think have never been experienced with anybody er going through a very small city built in eighteen hundreds I do n't know what time and date you know , but a very long time ago . |
| 13 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 14 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 15 | We calculate that on an estimate of what we think has happened to employment in the quarter erm and that calculation tells us , and it seems to be re reasonably right in the sense that it 's got a , a good tr a good record of tracking erm the official numbers when they eventually come out . |
| 16 | But Walter is a poor shade of what we have had better done . |
| 17 | in this , as more and more people become concerned with their health and the effect of what they eat has on it I 'd think about your English in that and how you put it together , that there sentence |
| 18 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 19 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 20 | Five opposition parties lodged a joint request on Feb. 10 for the postponement of the legislative elections planned for March 6 ; this , they said , would enable the revision of electoral lists and constituency boundaries to prevent a recurrence of what they claimed had been massive fraud in the January presidential elections [ see pp. 38709-10 ] . |
| 21 | Some of what they found has been reclaimed by its owners but there 's plenty left . |
| 22 | Many newspapers compile lists of what they consider to have been the best novels of the previous year — a useful guide to what readers might try to get hold of . |
| 23 | Gave him a small taste of what she 'd had to suffer ? |
| 24 | Well that 's true but maybe , you know and if you 've to drink she , maybe you should n't drink sherry on top of what you 've had injected into you . |
| 25 | Even obscura such as The Houseplant Disc ( a database to help you pick the right ones for the right situations ) or Bon Appetit ( which suggests recipes based on your input of what you happen to have in the fridge ) are , in the right situation , useful . |
| 26 | She was ‘ enchanted ’ she said , and wrote touchingly : ‘ It gives the measure of what you have had , and what you have lost . ’ |
| 27 | I just wanted you to have some of what I had had today , some of the joy and warmth , I wanted to give you something — ’ |
| 28 | Clearly outlined was the oval shape of the perimeter of what I suspected had been a professionally-built concrete pool , now filled in — for what reason I ca n't imagine . |
| 29 | During the Sept. 28 meeting Houphouët-Boigny revealed details of what he said had been a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit to consecrate the basilica of Our Lady of Yammoussoukro on Sept. 9 [ see p. 37732 ] . |
| 30 | Robarchek ( this volume ) sets his discussion of the Semai within the frame of what he argues has become a ‘ sterile dichotomy in Western thought ’ as a direct result of the ideas of these two philosophers . |