Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you produce a lovely little item which fits perfectly on a particular radio programme , or newspaper , and that happens to be the week that it 's the county show , or an earthquake , or something like that , there 's no way you 're going to get it in , because there 's too much competition , and the next week it 's dead . |
| 2 | She stared in horror at the whitened , frozen cadavers which lay there under a tattered , canvas sheet . |
| 3 | The Greek version of Isaiah 7 uses a word which refers specifically to a virgin , whereas the underlying Hebrew simply denotes a young girl . |
| 4 | When interrogated by the FBI in his British jail , Fuchs identified photographs of one of his contacts , Harry Gold , who named a trail of others which led eventually to an obscure machine-shop manager of Russian parentage , Julius Rosenberg , and his wife Ethel . |
| 5 | Penry carried her carefully down a staircase which led straight into a large sitting-room . |
| 6 | In this perspective , it was industrialization and urbanization which triggered those processes and which led ultimately to a weakening of family ties , and especially ties with kin outside the so-called ‘ conjugal family ’ composed of a couple and their immature children ( Morgan , 1975 , ch. 2 ; Harris , 1983 , chs. 6–8 ) . |
| 7 | It was the beginning of our curiosity about each other which led ultimately to a mutual understanding and respect upon which our friendship became firmly based . |
| 8 | Good humour helped to see Victor through his prolonged ill health , caused by a lung complaint which led ultimately to a transplant operation from which he did not recover . |
| 9 | The prospect of losing the traditional source of their wealth and authority induced among many noblemen a reappraisal of their role which amounted almost to a crisis of identity . |
| 10 | On 30 March , however , an exceptionally violent explosion occurred , blowing off the top 200 metres of the volcano , and propagating a dense eruption cloud which expanded upwards at a speed estimated to be something like 500 metres per second , finally reaching a height of thirty-eight kilometres . |
| 11 | Gray was also one of the twenty nurserymen in the Society of Gardeners led by Philip Miller [ q.v. ] , which met frequently in an attempt to standardize the names of the plants they were growing . |
| 12 | From February 1973 , all Stags were sold with both hood ( which stows neatly in a lidded well behind the back seats ) and hardtop ( which required two pairs of strong arms to manipulate ) . |
| 13 | The design aim at the beginning of this project was to have a power supply adjustable over a range of about 5V to 15V which regulated well with a maximum current output of about 5A . |
| 14 | The transformation is made up of spiritual , intellectual and emotional elements which grow together into an autonomous state of mind : Sooner or later this attitude of autonomy expresses itself in doubt . |
| 15 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 16 | The element in a construction which interacts directly with an element or elements outside the construction may be called the semantic head of the construction . |
| 17 | Classifications of most landforms are in a sense unsatisfactory , because there is usually an infinite variety of forms , some of which fit well into a classification and others only with extreme difficulty . |
| 18 | Factors which correlate positively with a strong search for power are : |
| 19 | His chronic disease , which erupted periodically like a benign volcano , was his insurance policy . |
| 20 | As a simple example , at the level of concept formation , one might envisage a child encountering an object which looks rather like a table , though slightly different from any tables previously noted . |
| 21 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 22 | On the wall of the Centre is a huge golden sculpture which looks faintly like an Inca mask . |
| 23 | Sherman and Buzzie B. climb into a totally white BMW which looks more like a modern bathroom cabinet than a car . |
| 24 | His reserve trundlers — usually in the mediocre medium-pace category and fully aware of the aggressive intentions of the batsmen — try to keep the ball on a full length and in ‘ the channel ’ which lies approximately in a straight line between the stumps . |
| 25 | The most characteristic of these motives is the hatched maeander or key-pattern , which occurs constantly in a great variety of simple or complex forms . |
| 26 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 27 | Waves which break vigorously on a steep beach . |
| 28 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 29 | The authors conclude that it is more likely that many other factors should also be included in the analysis such as motivation , nicotine dependence , personality type , self-efficacy , therapeutic support , etc , which act together in a complex way and would substantially increase the explained variance of smoking cessation . |
| 30 | The analogy is with instinctive mystery — an arcane communing which erupts suddenly at a mutually understood signal , like an entire species of bird becoming aware that it is time to mate . |