Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pittencrieff , which has built up a stake of 19.1 per cent in Aberdeen , has made its offer conditional on Aberdeen 's bid for Brabant failing . |
| 2 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |
| 3 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 4 | Ingres Corp is claiming a world first for its Ingres/Enhanced Security relational database , which has picked up an Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria E3/F-B1 security rating . |
| 5 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |
| 6 | The minster leads into the largely undisturbed Georgian town centre , which has taken on a new lease of life under the guidance of the local Civic Society . |
| 7 | Hi-Tech and more sleekly designed kitchens look good with white tiled floors whether ceramic or vinyl , but again you could use cork and vinyl , or composition tiles or even linoleum which has taken on a new lease of life now that people have realised how well it can look inlaid with other colours . |
| 8 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 9 | A £19.95 investment in a Blackjack putter is the catalyst which has brought about a change in fortune for Davies . |
| 10 | Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy . |
| 11 | The ACPO in Scotland , as also in England and Wales , has made a policy decision about sponsored events which has brought about the above situation . |
| 12 | You then have to ask yourself the question , If there is n't any Government , if there is n't any er local development pressure of any substance which has brought about the need for this policy , has there been some sort of quantum change in Government policy which has necessitated that we give emphasis to this particular issue . |
| 13 | Michael Heseltine enjoys grand gestures and has no intention of allowing the Labour Party ( which has brought in the architect Sir Richard Rogers as its adviser ) to make all the running where the debate on the future of London is concerned . |
| 14 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 15 | The new pressures that the situation will place on libraries has already been recognised by the Higher Education Funding Council , which has set up a review committee on libraries . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the Farmers ' Union of Wales , which has set up a farm and rural consultancy service , considered reports of widespread farm fraud ‘ greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 17 | Landlords who wish to take over public sector dwellings have first to seek the approval of the Housing Corporation which has set out the criteria for approval in some detail . |
| 18 | NCIS , which has drawn up a target list of 500 top-level criminals , co-ordinates intelligence on a regional , national and international basis . |
| 19 | This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice . |
| 20 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 21 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 22 | Those schools which had built up a good resource collection appeared to have allocated additional capitation to the school library or to have raised extra funds from other sources . |
| 23 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 24 | This year of 1944 saw the supreme Japanese effort to break the deadlock which had bogged down the Burma front . |
| 25 | But I missed the more dramatic sting inflicted on Gloucestershire 's Mark Davies , by a bee which had gone up the trouser leg and reached the left-arm spinner 's more intimate regions . |
| 26 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 27 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 28 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 29 | Was Miss Fergusson comparing the earthquake which had thrown down the village of Arghuri to the great Flood itself ? |
| 30 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |