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Example sentences of "a [noun] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The lure of big money was on the way and director Bob Rafelson had fortunately obtained Jack 's signature for another BBS film before the price went up and put him back on track as a counter-culture player , a route which Nicholson analysed in terms of the way he wanted his career to go .
2	Even a prince whose parentage was known could not be certain of succeeding his father , especially if his mother had been discarded from the royal bed .
3	This large degree of regional economic responsiveness served the developing economy well , in that the outcome was a provision whose components were complementary .
4	Thom 's theoretical analysis was based on the work of S.R. Broadbent , a statistician whose quantum hypothesis allows the extent to which data are quantised to be assessed objectively .
5	She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically .
6	He regarded Lexandro musingly as a brother might a sister whose honour he must protect — a sentiment which Lexandro had purged from his own soul , though he recognized the symptoms .
7	Small things to many , but at Miele excellence of design and construction ensure a kitchen whose performance will remain faultless and give pleasure for life , which has been our philosophy since we introduced major kitchen appliances at the turn of the century .
8	Thinking the same way about syntax , we can say that a given set of rules ( a syntactic analysis ) is a function whose domain is the set of possible combinations of morphemes in the language L , and whose range has just two elements , denoting the grammatical and the ungrammatical in L ; or thinking about semantics , we might say that a semantic analysis of L has as its domain the set of well-formed sentences of L , and as its range the set of semantic representations or propositions representing the meaning of each of those sentences .
9	Since a sentence plus its context of use can be called an utterance , Katz 's suggestion amounts to the idea that a pragmatic theory is a function whose domain is the set of utterances and whose range is the set of propositions .
10	You remind me of bit , eh , you 're like a bit what Joanne 's like , except Joanne 's better at maths but she 's not very good at English , like when they were doing Animal Farm , I had to explain that it was a parody of the Russian revolution and everything and she just sat there with her mouth open .
11	Not a bit what Owen had in mind , but since the unions had neither the resources nor the will to use them , the revolution did not come at all .
12	Quietly , Shell invests in its businesses at the rate of some $10 billion a year — a level which Sir Peter Holmes , its chairman , says will not change , Gulf war or not .
13	A single glance at the crucified Christ , the worshipped corpse : a figure bent like a branch whose shape has changed in the stretching agony of fire .
14	Procul Harum superimpose on the Bach harmonies a vocal whose style derives from soul music .
15	Not surprisingly , such unselfish acts by a runner whose ability commands respect , have made Zarei one of the most popular figures in ultra running , and he was recently referred to by one of his rivals as ‘ Gentleman James ’ .
16	By presenting the information on a videodisc which managers could view quickly , locally and at a convenient time , BT reduced the cost of the exercise to £15 per manager .
17	The other book was Must England Lose India ? ( 1930 ) by Lt. Col. Arthur Osburn , a retired Indian army doctor and member of the Labour party , who hoped one day to see a ‘ United States of India ’ dwelling ‘ contented within the orbit of the British Commonwealth ’ , a hope which Kennedy regarded as absurd .
18	And Steve Albini says about Steve Albini : ‘ I really do n't give a shit what people think of me , that 's not an issue .
19	You know , I did n't give a shit what fit Mrs Goreng would throw .
20	Messrs Hoult and Cowan also went through the report with Mr Barnes but concentrated on the financial crisis , rather than mentioning fraud and malpractice , a decision which Bingham finds ‘ surprising and unfortunate ’ .
21	But as with every planning inquiry , hearing or whatever , we need not to avoid closing the discussion before we have all the information we need to reach a decision whichever way we decide to reach it .
22	The court may require any property transferred as part of the transaction to be vested in the company , release any security given by the company , require ‘ any person ’ to make payments to the administrator or liquidator in respect of benefits received by him from the company , provide for a guarantor whose obligations have been discharged to be under revived obligations , provide for security to be given for the discharge of obligations imposed by the order and for the priority which such security shall have , and provide for the extent to which persons may be able to prove in the winding up .
23	A driver whose vehicle collided with the parked car was treated for shock but otherwise unhurt .
24	Beyond the Leonardo monument and the row of yellow taxis , each with a driver whose disregard for your safety if you try to cross the road in front of them is as remarkable as any of da Vinci 's theories , is La Scala .
25	A DRIVER whose car was towed through a red light was amazed to receive a £40 fine .
26	WHEN police stopped to help a driver whose car had broken down outside Inverness they found 28 packages of herbal cannabis in a carrier bag .
27	That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep .
28	In Italy in 1880 Catholics were still ordered to abstain from political activity ; in Germany , the Kulturkampf , a struggle whose origin lay in a quarrel between Bismarck and Catholic Germans opposed to Prussian dominance of the new German Empire , was still under way .
29	M Delors , President of the European Commission , wants a £14.6 billion increase in the budget over the next five years , a rise which Britain will fight .
30	The document also alleged that Montazeri had been involved in a gang whose members had been executed in Iran in 1987 after smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year [ see pp. 35541-42 ; 35677 ] .