Example sentences of "a [noun] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 2 | So a drug which acted during this phase , a ‘ true causal prophylactic ’ , was exactly what was wanted , but how was it to be found ? |
| 3 | But the proposition that it was not lawful for the Secretary of State to adopt a tariff which differed from that of the judges was in my opinion wrong . |
| 4 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 5 | I am quite unable to accept that Parliament in adopting somewhat more prolix language was intending to achieve a result which differed from that recommended by the committee . |
| 6 | He did not rate his findings on the antibacterial substance worthy of a full paper , and included them in a publication which dealt with several substances derived from Penicillia . |
| 7 | On Jan. 15 the Cabinet approved a plan which called on all groups and individuals voluntarily to hand over small-calibre weapons by mid-March . |
| 8 | An inquest into the death of James Carney , 24 , of Thames Road , Redcar , who was a passenger in a taxi which collided with another vehicle , was adjourned yesterday pending the outcome of court proceedings . |
| 9 | Verdicts were , however , subject to ‘ review ’ by the Supreme Court on six rather ill-defined grounds , a procedure which led to much confusion . |
| 10 | This was a policy which led to many disagreements with his timid employers , and he waged a vigorous guerrilla campaign against the prudery and philistinism of the BBC hierarchy . |
| 11 | The efforts being made now to change these attitudes are seeking to reverse a trend which persisted for most of this century endorsed by official government attitudes to the care of the handicapped . |
| 12 | Post-war architects , amongst whom Frederick Gibberd was soon prominent , popularized a style which drew on many influences . |
| 13 | After six throws I had a hexagram which looked like this : |
| 14 | Despite winning the election , ‘ we are not as popular as we should be , ’ he proclaimed ; a truism which met with some ungrudging assent . |
| 15 | He was an Afghan who bemused Robert Graves , and in this book must be regarded as a bee which escaped from that capacious bonnet ; his Kabul cousins thought him a figure of pure comedy . |
| 16 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
| 17 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 18 | But it was always easy come , easy go : easy-going in many ways , it seems — a characteristic which developed into that ‘ repose ’ and ‘ utter confidence in himself ’ that so many actors and writers remarked on . |
| 19 | IN A HOUSE WHICH STOOD ON THIS SITE ’ . |