Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
| 2 | Athelstan stared into the flames , half listening to a wind which had suddenly sprung up , now whining and clattering against the tightly secured shutters . |
| 3 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 4 | Moreover , the Attorney-General 's contentions are inconsistent with the practice which has now continued over a number of years in cases of judicial review . |
| 5 | And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be . |
| 6 | ‘ To look at me , no one would take me for the Miracle-Worker , ’ Gabriel persisted , and he grinned and rubbed his short head of hair which had barely grown long enough for a single curl . |
| 7 | GOOD news from an Everton camp which has not had too much to cheer recently , is that Howard Kendall has all his first team squad fit for selection against Nottingham Forest , with the single exception of Mark Ward , writes Ian Hargraves . |
| 8 | There was one abominable story of a young man to whom this happened , a freelance journalist , who 'd been taken on by one of the agencies on a temporary trial which had n't worked out . |
| 9 | Mitsotakis 's sensitivity on the issue of his family 's political involvement was seen to reflect his desire to avoid charges of unethical conduct by his government , the issue which had effectively brought down his ( socialist ) predecessor Andreas Papandreou . |
| 10 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 11 | But such is the treacherous role of the trade union leadership that the victory over Grunwick management which had once seemed so near is now likely never to be realised . |
| 12 | There too the only debt remaining outstanding from a business which had otherwise ceased more than a year before was a debt owed to the Inland Revenue . |
| 13 | This was the new name of a group which had already existed informally for a few years , with a number of representatives from well-known " reforming " Edinburgh families on its committee : the McLarens , Mairs and Stevensons for instance . |
| 14 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 15 | In certain areas of the country industrialization had been a slow but continuous process since the seventeenth century or even earlier ; and it is a process which has not finished yet . |
| 16 | Fewer requests for confirming analysis take place from the conceptual end , but a greater number are initiated through the scheming process which has gradually taken over from the conceptual phase as the main centre of the design work . |
| 17 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 18 | Secondly , as the war became less lucrative ( with fewer expeditions into enemy territory ) and the needs of defence came to dominate military activity , so the glamour of war which had undoubtedly existed both in the previous century and under Henry V , began to diminish . |
| 19 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 20 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 21 | English is not alone in being able to evoke a mental position before an event which has actually occurred moreover . |
| 22 | Following a frantic phone call from the Hygiene Manager of a major food producing client near York to come and identify a ‘ slug ’ , surveyor Bob Harris from Hull was presented with a leech which had mysteriously appeared right in the middle of the factory . |
| 23 | New technology has allowed doctors to perform previously unheard of operations such as hip replacements and open-heart surgery , thereby creating a demand which had not appeared before . |
| 24 | ‘ Our album opened doors for us all over the world , ’ he says , ‘ and another major factor in our success was that one of the songs on it , ‘ Wall Of Tears ’ , was included on the Women 's Heart C.D. which has already sold over 200,000 copies in Ireland alone . |
| 25 | Several contractors have had it and it 's never been right and eventually a few days or weeks later a man comes round to pick up the grass which has already flown everywhere so it 's too late and a wa total waste of money . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , hundreds more job losses have been announced in an area which has already suffered heavily from the recession . |
| 27 | The walls have turned a gruesome red-brown from the urine which has also eaten away at the wooden structure of one of the portals . |
| 28 | I 'm not writing anything off because I 've had problems like this in the past which have suddenly turned round in a week . |
| 29 | But value-added resellers are not the sole focus for the present drive which has apparently attracted over 400 dealers so far , at a rate of around 20 to 30 a month . |
| 30 | Replacing legislation which had not altered significantly since 1936 , the new law opened the way for publicly owned banks ( approximately 80 per cent of the sector ) to become joint stock companies . |