Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [vb past] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 2 | He had paid very little attention to the section of the survey briefing which dealt with native flora and fauna . |
| 3 | The ES servers double the capacity of the previous top-end MIServer which came with 12 CPUs . |
| 4 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 5 | The first detachment of the Moors and foreign legionaires crossed from Morocco to the Spanish mainland on 19 July , an action which coincided with military revolts in Seville , Cadiz and Barcelona . |
| 6 | The General Assembly on Dec. 19 established the post of a UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator , whose secretariat would be based on a strengthened Office of the UN Disaster Relief Co-ordinator and the consolidation of existing offices which dealt with complex emergencies . |
| 7 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 8 | More recently , Marzi , Stefano , Tassinari and Crea ( 1979 ) , also using a post-cued partial report technique but without a mask , obtained a partial report advantage which decreased with increasing intervals between stimulus presentation and cue . |
| 9 | It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it . |
| 10 | In France ‘ unions were kept at a distance by the system of industry-wide bargaining which dealt with limited subjects and did not endanger the day-to-day power of management to make operating decisions ’ ( Meyers , 1981 , p. 191 ) , although a union presence in the plant was later forced upon management by legislation as one of the consequences of the 1968 strikes . |
| 11 | He went to the dressing-table and threw cold water over his face and chest which streamed with cold sweat . |
| 12 | Many hundred meeting places were at ancient sites in the landscape like barrows or stones , where they could have taken place for millennia , while others were at places which had other functions as well , such as centres of royal or ecclesiastical estates which coincided with hundredal arrangements . |
| 13 | " The 1872–3 strike would be a further example of a determined effort by the Edinburgh branch which met with tough employer resistance . |
| 14 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 15 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Once again , there were several guest players in a New South Wales Country team which performed with great energy and enthusiasm , although the country boys were eventually subdued by a rampant Scottish pack . |
| 18 | Black Fury could only have been made at Warner Bros , a studio which had firmly aligned with Roosevelt and the New Deal and which quite clearly believed that there was a market for films which dealt with topical issues and in particular with matters of social justice . |
| 19 | Furthermore , they doubted whether the new , austere Protestant beliefs had in fact appealed to the laity , suggesting instead that Protestantism proved highly unpopular and was only imposed on the English people through force , by means of a government-sponsored process which met with great difficulties , and was only completed late in Elizabeth I 's reign . |
| 20 | At once I waved away the unjustly famous quotation which sprang with great obviousness to my mind . |
| 21 | It might also recognize previously marked passages which dealt with nationalistic themes or with the nature of government . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She tackled any problems which arose with great tact and charm and also played a major part in the production of our Expansion Programme . |
| 24 | So United States courts have declared invalid service which met the requirements of state law or of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but which did not meet the terms of the convention and a Netherlands court has refused to grant exequatur to a Belgian judgment granted after service which complied with Belgian law but not the convention 's requirements . |
| 25 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 26 | And she made a little dint in the ground which filled with some water and became a little pool for the snake to drink out . |
| 27 | Gosling was inclined to be philosophical at the strike 's failure , simply regarding it as " a fiasco which showed with brutal clearness how weak our young organisation still was " . |
| 28 | The previous year fire had broken out on its mate which sank with great loss of life . |
| 29 | In both instances the debate centred on the inviolability of the principle of parliamentary immunity rather than on Le Pen 's comments which met with widespread condemnation . |
| 30 | What was undoubtedly important , however , was that the ICS briefed and trained its interviewers to deal with the part of the questionnaire which dealt with sexual offences , and indeed when a case was uncovered by a male interviewer he always offered a follow-up interview conducted by a woman . |