Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 2 | Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus . |
| 3 | Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves . |
| 4 | He needed to think that he had been well-intentioned , but her consent or inclination did not figure among the considerations with which he weighed the matter . |
| 5 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 6 | On Friday , John Birt , director-general-designate , sent a message of congratulations to journalists in which he defended the way the BBC had handled the campaign . |
| 7 | The Greens admitted that implicitly in the 1984 Joint Declaration of the European Green Parties in which they rejected an ‘ economy based primarily on productivity ( and ) … on the creation of artificial needs ’ . |
| 8 | I have named it after the Comte de Courchamps , author of the first of the three books in which I found the recipe . |
| 9 | It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part . |
| 10 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 11 | This charting of the circulating relations between aesthetic and other forms of production works best in those historical periods , such as the Renaissance , where there was no modern concept of Literature , thus allowing literary texts to be mapped against the political and other discourses of which they formed a part . |
| 12 | ‘ You use your left hand ! ’ he said , slowly and clearly , in the tones of one who knew a thing or two about Islamic adab . |
| 13 | ‘ Murder , ’ he said , in the tones of someone who knew a bit about the subject , ‘ is something we try and classify . |
| 14 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 15 | But not the Indians with whom I had a year . |
| 16 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded the number of trials in which they avoided the butterflies or pecked at them ; the numbers in the Table give her results . |
| 17 | The world communist movement , meanwhile , had virtually collapsed as an organised force , and individual parties had lost ground in nearly all the countries in which they had a legal existence ( some had simply disappeared ) . |
| 18 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
| 19 | Progress towards this happy state would be hindered by revolution ; some of those who read his book might have been inspired to take some practical action , so in order to make clear his position Godwin produced a pamphlet in 1795 entitled Considerations on Lord Grenville ‘ s and Mr. Pitt 's Bills in which he supported the government 's repression of ‘ agitators and democrats ’ . |
| 20 | The LEA , then , appears to have been interventive on matters which schools themselves ought to have dealt with , and laissez-faire on other matters in which it had a wholly legitimate interest . |
| 21 | I thought it might have amused X. Ray to see it and hoped one day he would , but not under the hostile circumstances in which I had the misfortune to discover myself . |
| 22 | In the same case , at 427 , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) gave more examples in the following passage and summarised the circumstances in which he thought the court would interfere : |
| 23 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 24 | And there was a Dutch historian , Reneer in London , who used to give lectures in which he made a point of not knowing any dates , and he would say ‘ The Armada came in ’ , and then there 'd be a little row of girls who 'd call out ‘ Fifteen eighty-eight ’ , and then he 'd say ‘ James the First came to the throne in ’ , and they would call out ‘ Sixteen oh three . ’ |
| 25 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 26 | The state of the sterling exchanges , the progress of the negotiations for financial aid , the estimates of the likely flow of oil-these were all matters on which I knew the Prime Minister would want the latest information . |
| 27 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 28 | Whereas most French adventures focus on mechanical sports , such as the Paris-Dakar Rally and the 2000-mile Harricana Snowmobile Race in Canada , Fusil was adamant that any sports in what he called the Raid Gauloises would be human or animal-powered only . |
| 29 | Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings . |
| 30 | Two of the screen 's toughest tough guys , James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart , each won his only Oscar in one of the few films in which he played a goody : Yankee Doodle Dandy and The African Queen respectively . |