Example sentences of "[Wh det] required a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Take care in planning a walking tour : one guy we talked to came across an impossible cliff which required a two-day detour . ) |
| 2 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 3 | A pedagogy which aimed at teaching the functional potential of grammar along the lines I have described , would have to get learners to engage in problem-solving tasks which required a gradual elaboration of grammar to service an increasing precision in the identification of relevant features of context . |
| 4 | Another area of difficulty was the elimination in the group statement of the considerable inter-group business , which required a lot of detailed workings . |
| 5 | The firm finally settled on a shell which required a complete internal fit — from putting in offices , loos and kitchens , to carpeting and heating . |
| 6 | In fact the whole exercise was fairly straightforward , except for one problem which required a one-off solution . |
| 7 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 8 | Nurse banks originated in hospitals which required a pool of available trained staff from which to draw in times of staff shortage . |
| 9 | Elsewhere around the country Dorset side West Hants more or less sealed the Area 8 title with an eleventh hour 2–1 away win over Team Excel — which required a final doubles rubber tie-break to separate the sides . |
| 10 | From this small dukedom he managed to prosper , employed as he was in a business which required a few choice contacts , a nose for the changing taste of his market , and an ability to conceal his pleasure at his achievements . |
| 11 | The nature of arable farming , which required a large labour force to tend the crop , conferred upon rural society a rigid social hierarchy . |
| 12 | The character of free-standing sculpture , so noticeable in the figures of the east , is abandoned in the chariot-teams , where the near horse alone is carved in full , heads and necks of the others being attached to it in a kind of receding relief ; but this was a special problem which required a special solution . |
| 13 | But new problems appeared which required a more positive approach on the part of the government , and this threw the the problem of regional discrepancies in the different levels of wages , unemployment and emigration north and south of a line drawn across England at about York . |
| 14 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 15 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 16 | He organized the horseless carriage exhibition — the first motor show in England — in Tunbridge Wells in 1895 , and was said to have written 56,000 letters in the campaign to abolish the legal anomaly which required a man with a red flag to walk in front of what was classified as a ‘ locomotive ’ at no more than four miles per hour . |
| 17 | Therefore , whilst in theory the compact could be approved by a simple majority , in practice it required the removal of the anti-nuclear clauses from the Constitution , a process which required a 75 per cent vote in its favour . |
| 18 | The reform , which required a two-thirds majority in parliament , would allow a new government a period of 18 months to establish its programme and policies before it could be subject to a confidence motion . |
| 19 | Although a compact of free association was signed in 1982 between Belau and the USA , it could not be implemented until the territory altered its Constitution ( which required a 75 per cent vote in favour in a referendum ) to rescind the clauses which banned the entry , storage or disposal of nuclear , chemical or biological weapons . |
| 20 | By using a federal regulation rather than the independent counsel statute ( which required a panel of judges to choose the appointee ) , Barr also ensured that he alone could choose the investigator . |
| 21 | To take a case from the motoring sphere , supposing one wished to exclude vehicles above a certain length from a residential street ; would the ordinary motorist tolerate a barrier which required a complex reversing manoevre ? |
| 22 | Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question . |
| 23 | This woman aged 30 years presented in 1990 with an ileocolic intussusception which required a limited right hemicolectomy . |
| 24 | The structure plans tended to be based on a survey — analysis — plan approach which required a rather determinist view of the issues which they examined . ’ |
| 25 | The Saro London was designed to Air Ministry Specification R24/31 which required a twin-engined open-sea reconnaissance and coastal patrol flying-boat . |