Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , the defendant company , which operated a large number of supermarkets , had instituted in their stores an effective system to prevent the commission of an offence . |
| 2 | This policy posed a general problem for the National WEA , which lacked a clear view on its partnership with other providers , and was an especially acute one for the District where important concessions had been made in earlier years to the Cambridge Board . |
| 3 | Many early r'n'r bass players continued to use the upright bass , which lent a distinct voice to the records of the time . |
| 4 | The work has a masterly sense of proportion , an elegiac richness of palate and a spiritual far-sightedness which lent a radiant depth to the work 's mythological tapestry . |
| 5 | Erm , but , you know , which lent a certain point to the whole argument . |
| 6 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 7 | This was provided as a consequence of the Ryder Report , which recommended a substantial injection of public funds in April 1975 . |
| 8 | After the break Oxford maintained their forward impetus , scoring a push-over try , and thereafter the sides alternated tries , culminating in the best of the afternoon when Smith , Hein and Curtis combined in a 60-metre break down the right which produced a diving touchdown for Curtis . |
| 9 | Keegan keeps the team which produced a last-gasp win over Portsmouth last Saturday after five successive League defeats . |
| 10 | These developments , which produced a new generation of flute soloists ( Blavet , Lucas , Desjardins et al. ) , seem to explain his apparent loss of interest in the flute indicated by the inventories . |
| 11 | Even the Trade and Industry Select Committee , which produced a lengthy report on the investigation system during 1990 , almost totally ignored the very existence of the s 447 enquiries , preferring to concentrate on the public inspections . |
| 12 | The pool , which produced a large number of coins and items of jewellery , suggestive of votive deposits , was approached through an imposing ante-room , given sophisticated architectural treatment . |
| 13 | They also evince an obvious preference for Greek , as against Latin , as an object of study — a preference that can be traced back to Nietzsche 's schooldays , which produced a noteworthy essay on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex ( 1864 ) . |
| 14 | These proposals were to be put in order of priority ( a requirement which became a regular feature of hospital development programmes ever after ) . |
| 15 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 16 | Rodofinikin had a hopeless task , as his instructions were drafted in the light of a Russo-Serbian agreement which presupposed a Russian victory over the Turks . |
| 17 | Again in the case of Trieste , Dell'Aqua describes how patients , painters , doctors , nurses and students built a blue horse — the Marco Cavallo — which led a joyful procession of about 6,000 patients through the town , and on to a celebration of the emptying of the first ward , held at a local primary school . |
| 18 | However , the restricted influence of the Communists must be attributed in part to the subordination of their parties to the Communist International , which manifested a distinct lack of interest , knowledge or understanding of the local conditions within which they had to operate . |
| 19 | In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them . |
| 20 | For the moment we need to notice that if normality is to be defined not in terms of contextual plausibility but in terms of frequency of attested occurrence , then in principle the teacher , selecting language by this criterion , would be confined to a presentation of expressions which realized a particular combination of syntactic elements with particular lexical items . |
| 21 | I was just thinking how this feels incredibly … atmospheric , ’ she heard herself admitting reluctantly , waving an arm to encompass the satiny darkness of the sea all around them , ‘ I was thinking of the ghosts of all those Spanish galleons which met a sticky end in these very waters , hundreds of years ago , ’ she added , with a touch of melodrama which made him laugh out loud . |
| 22 | Hikmet Cetin , Foreign Minister of Turkey , which according to the Kars treaty of 1921 was joint guarantor with Russia of the status of Nakhichevan and which shared a small section of its border , expressed his country 's disapproval on May 19 . |
| 23 | In Janet 's case , the success of her two latest albums , which sold a combined total of 14m copies , are no guarantee of future hits . |
| 24 | Here he describes the unprecedented amount of sculpture he has found , whose quality demonstrates that the sculptors of Aphrodisias were no mere copyists but artists ofa distinctive school which made a major contribution to ancient art . |
| 25 | The house was much too small ; people made a deep ring round the couple and Cameron , standing on the cobbles among piles of bar and rod iron , the children perched on tree-stumps and on the lower branches of the very old yew tree which made a dark thicket with its multiple trunks . |
| 26 | Autobacs , which made a pre-tax profit of ¥7.3 billion ( $51.7m ) on sales of ¥110.4 billion in the year ended March 31st , has the means to finance further expansion . |
| 27 | The company , which made a pre-tax loss of almost £69m in 1991 , foreshadowed a ‘ steady ’ improvement in results this year from the hard-hit general insurance sector as industry capacity falls and increases in premium rates gather momentum . |
| 28 | Much later the Boots Pure Drug Co. endowed professorships in honour of Lord and Lady Trent which made a substantial contribution to the academic growth of the University . |
| 29 | But the towns were by no means insulated from its far-reaching effects , nor , within the towns , the trading community which made a substantial contribution to the wealth of the kingdom in this period . |
| 30 | And then he added something which made a deep impression on me . |