Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the basic level , Windows is an electronic desk-top which offers you a way to organise your programs . |
| 2 | But the winning recipe is for the filo fruit baskets , below , sent in by Margaret Crisell from Newcastle which wins her a bottle of 1987 Torres Milmanda wine from Pendes , Spain . |
| 3 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |
| 4 | Hayling is a man of considerable and obvious intelligence , with dishy looks and great charm which made him a favourite with some of the women comrades . |
| 5 | Yet Politics among Nations is the book which made him a major figure in the discipline and its message is as we have described it . |
| 6 | The distinctive thing about him which made him a legend in his lifetime and made his biography one of the Methodist best sellers of the century , was an immediate apprehension of the divine glory which issued naturally in leaping , dancing , and cheerful controversy with the world . |
| 7 | It was another of those things , like the green car , which made him a less than perfect Moslem . |
| 8 | He was a tyrant , a bully , and he 'd stolen her things — which made him a thief into the bargain ! |
| 9 | The devotion to duty which made him a surprisingly successful stalwart at Ibrox for so long is still evident in Miller 's conscientious work with his young players . |
| 10 | Possibly even more so than being the all singing , all dancing performer which made her a millionairess . |
| 11 | A leader of the US Communist Party in New York from the late 1940s , he was imprisoned in 1953 for two years for violating the Smith Act , which made it a crime to advocate the violent overthrow of the Government . |
| 12 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 13 | As a result of these processes , madeira wine gained qualities which made it a rival of port and sherry . |
| 14 | Only a year earlier , Wilson himself had denounced the legislation which made it a member . |
| 15 | In retrospect , Ceauşescu 's first important meeting with a Western head of state on equal terms took place in circumstances which made it a curious anticipation of his own downfall . |
| 16 | The dollar also became a principal source of liquidity for private transactions ( e.g. oil payments ) because of the dollar 's crucial position in the international monetary system , which made it a safe and acceptable medium of exchange . |
| 17 | The factors which made it a reality in the 1970s are a pool of cheap labour , new production processes and new communications methods . |
| 18 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 19 | It was a sharp strike which made it a dream return to his native North East following his £175,000 move to Merseyside in November 1991 . |
| 20 | Following this they release blood into their eyes which turns them a dull red colour . |
| 21 | ALTHOUGH the British government would deny ‘ grooming ’ a candidate from within the ranks of its Hong Kong civil service for the job of chief executive after transition in 1997 , it has given John Chan , 46 , a series of fast-track official posts which make him a credible contender for the job . |
| 22 | The key characteristics of each company which make them a good fit with the client should be identified . |
| 23 | The key characteristics of each company which make them a good fit with the client should be identified . |
| 24 | Hirszowicz summarizes the specific features of communist bureaucracies which make them a new species of bureaucratic order as follows : |
| 25 | Despite minor errors the book has a style and a use of simile which make it a pleasure to read . |
| 26 | It has several features which make it a useful starting point for a tour across north Switzerland , a kind of advance taster of the delights to come . |
| 27 | Of course , hypertext is a reality today because of the availability of computer environments which make it a practical possibility . |
| 28 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 29 | A mistake at the eighth , which cost him a shot , was only a momentary falter in his stately progress to a seven-under-par round at 65 . |
| 30 | But Murphy did n't start and Nolan hit early trouble with his Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 suffering suspension damage which cost him a two-minute delay while repairs were carried out between stages . |