Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It affected not only rural or seaside communities ( some of which were now facing a crisis with the growing attractiveness of continental holidays and the inroads made by car and caravan into the traditional domain of the seaside landlady ) , but even industrial areas , where such attractions as Big Pit at Blaenavon in South Wales paid testimony to the passing of the age of coal . |
| 2 | The moral revolution , which is very strikingly described in his autobiography , arose out of a visit that he and his wife paid to the Whitehead family , which were then undergoing a family tribulation of some kind , and Russell was deeply moved by their plight . |
| 3 | Benjamin reports that his classmates openly say things which were never said a year ago . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've also found ourselves looking at other aspects , like eldercare , which is increasingly becoming a problem for people who work . |
| 5 | And then there is Euro Disney , which is fast becoming a synonym for Eurodisaster . |
| 6 | His death has affected a nation which is already facing a crisis of identity , as Moscow refuses to recognize its independence . |
| 7 | Mr Wright 's experience underscores many companies ' concerns about empowerment , which is rapidly becoming a buzz-word in enlightened management circles . |
| 8 | Perhaps next year we shall discuss flagship problems and decide that each boat must belong to a producers ' or other organisation , which is then allocated a quota from the United Kingdom TAC . |
| 9 | Northumbria remained rich , politically stable and intellectually gifted enough under Aldfrith and his immediate successors to enable that creative synthesis of Celtic , Anglo-Saxon and Mediterranean art — which is so striking a feature of post-conversion Northumbrian civilization — to achieve its maximum expression in the renaissance of the late seventh and first half of the eighth centuries . |
| 10 | A WHITE daffodil with a long cup , which is still awaiting a name and which was raised by Mr Clive Postle , has won the prize for best bloom at this week 's Westminster Flower Show of the Royal Horticultural Society . |
| 11 | A paragraph , on the other hand , has its main point or direction indicated in the opening sentence , which is sometimes called a TOPIC SENTENCE . |
| 12 | A 700 acre farm at Staunton in Gloucestershire is being blockaded by farmers , after national promotion of a laser disco party , which was later refused a licence by the local council . |
| 13 | Still no urgent action , by CSM , which was then negotiating a dose recommendation change with Dista , nor by the Minister , although then ‘ the floodgates of notifications opened … |
| 14 | Riderhood 's daughter , Pleasant , is an unlicensed pawnbroker in a very small way of business : ‘ possessed of what is colloquially termed a swivel eye … |
| 15 | And , and the issue is , question is is what is often called a problem of social order . |
| 16 | knit the next few rows as usual , then cross the cable the opposite way ( in the same channel ) you are producing what is sometimes called a snake cable , since that is what it looks like . |
| 17 | We are producing what is sometimes called a sociogram which is a diagram which maps human interactions . |
| 18 | Now what you 're going to receive this afternoon , is what is pretentiously called a time management system . |
| 19 | Here lies what was later deemed a confusion between two ideas of necessity . |
| 20 | The growth of empires in Africa and Asia , and of Europe 's trade with the rest of the world , underlay a process which , by its later decades , had begun to bring China , Japan , Persia and even one or two independent or quasi-independent parts of Africa into what was now becoming a world system of diplomatic contacts . |
| 21 | Innocent did not want the recognition of Frederick II to turn into a full-scale debate on the imperial title ( which Siegfried 's interruption threatened ) , though he was careful to allow Otto 's party to be heard in what was rapidly becoming a shouting-match between Otto 's supporters and Frederick 's representatives . |
| 22 | In 1411 , at the request of John , duke of Burgundy , a small English force took part in what was rapidly becoming a situation of civil war in France . |