Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 2 | ‘ Hmm , ’ said Faye , after what seemed like several minutes . |
| 3 | He was as usual training his sights exclusively on the goal currently in view , in this case the unification of South Africa , the kindergarten campaign for which seemed at that moment to require a concession to Afrikaner racial prejudice . |
| 4 | The developing plastics industry encouraged new avenues of experimentation , three of which resulted in unbreakable records which all appeared in the year 1930 . |
| 5 | The pair , who work in the Process Studies department at Harwell , made a lot of contacts — a few of which resulted in more work for AEA — when researching the manual . |
| 6 | The figures showed assets of 638,364 million roubles , backed by over 374 tonnes of gold , but the bank was said to be overburdened with credit of 462,060 million roubles to union and republican finance ministries ( only 23,646 million roubles of which went to republican ministries ) . |
| 7 | Between 1974 and 1979 , for example , the Department of Industry allocated about £250 million in regional assistance to Merseyside — almost all of which went to green-field locations ( Nabarro , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 9 | But recurrent harvest failures , the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891 , imposed severe hardship on many . |
| 10 | Keith John Moore , one of the firm 's partners , has appeared before the Disciplinary Committee on three previous occasions to answer allegations , two of which related to other rock bands . |
| 11 | RESEARCHING Lancasters ED611 and RF141 , both of which served with 463 Sqn at Waddington . |
| 12 | They need regular injections of Factor 8 , some of which came into this country infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 13 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 14 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |
| 15 | Product sales generated £31.1m up from £30.1m in 1991 , some 58% of which came from overseas subsidiaries . |
| 16 | , mill manager at that time , is pictured third from left , front row , immediately in front of ( wearing glasses ) of which owned at that time . |
| 17 | Before reaching the high sand , one had to cross a fifty yards wide trough of mud and water , the depth of which varied from six inches to six feet The trough was probably the only reason the area had not become a popular tourist resort years before . |
| 18 | Ground improvements and publicity were used for the same purpose , and so that football should reach as wide a public as possible , Chapman persuaded the Examiner to publish a Saturday sports edition , the first issue of which appeared on 10 January , 1925 . |
| 19 | the lighting equipment of which required by these Regulations to be fitted , namely … ( here specify ) |
| 20 | ‘ the lighting equipment of which required by these Regulations to be fitted , namely … ( here specify ) |
| 21 | ‘ the lighting equipment of which required by these Regulations to be fitted , namely … ( here specify ) This point is proved by showing whatever is specified is the lamp or reflector in question , e.g , the obligatory front nearside lamp or the rear offside reflector etc . |
| 22 | The individual tissue type plasminogen activator activity and damaged area was determined 30 minutes after the administration of endothelin-1 in the various concentrations ( 50 , 100 , 250 , and 500 pmol/kg ) , each of which consisted of seven experiments . |
| 23 | The absence of hydrogen bonds between His197 and CP 96345 is also consistent with the results of the H197Y and H197S mutants , both of which exhibited about 15-fold reduction in CP 96345 affinity compared to the wild-type NK-1R . |
| 24 | But church choirs continued to have an active rule in music education , together with the schools , many of which remained in close association with the Church . |
| 25 | Two stimuli were used , the offset of a light and the presentation of a clicker , both of which tended on first presentation to evoke a suppression of ongoing behaviour . |
| 26 | It is believed that the sequence of events that led to core damage involved equipment malfunctions , design-related problems , and human errors , all of which contributed in varying degrees to the accident ( US NUREG-0600 , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | This initial stage was taken one step further in 1987 when the Association of Health for the People began working in the community and provided an analysis of the main problems that needed to be addressed , and suggested some solutions — all of which depended upon good communication between the local inhabitants . |
| 28 | Megaw LJ in Littelwoods however gave examples of what went beyond mere knowledge of the way in which the plaintiffs ran their business . |
| 29 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |
| 30 | With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground . |