Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe 's . |
| 2 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 3 | However , there continued to be successes from individual business units which resulted from another year of good effort , team work and commitment by Wimpol staff throughout the Group . |
| 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 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 6 | An additional $100 million was targeted for " magnet " schools which specialized in specific subjects . |
| 7 | The pictures which led to such demand for the Daily Mirror that the Sold Out signs went up at newsagents all over the country . |
| 8 | A couple strolled past on clicking heels which echoed from one side of the road to the other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was , moreover , widely disseminated by a profusion of pattern books which concentrated upon smaller houses . |
| 11 | After the break , Abingdon continued to force Horsham back , although now the pitch was beginning to make an impression on some tired legs ; there were mistakes from both sides and also some heavy tackles which resulted in long delays whilst players received attention . |
| 12 | Although the CNAA acquired this new set of privileged partners , it also retained those institutions which shared to one extent or another in the provision of higher education . |
| 13 | If Romania was to get cheap credits and access to high-tech goods it needed to prove its credit-worthiness to the prestigious foreign institutions which specialized in economic analysis . |
| 14 | None wished or attempted to destroy all the institutions which acted as possible centres of opposition to their reforming efforts . |
| 15 | Early evaluation of the CADDIS prototype was carried out in conjunction with ATE personnel which resulted in greater confidence in the general approach coupled with acceptance and participation in the general approach . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | LOTHIAN REGION opened for business in 1975 and can trace its roots back to the local authorities which existed before that date . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 20 | An organization calling itself the Mujahidin Kashmir claimed responsibility for planting bombs which exploded at two New Delhi police stations on April 10 , injuring nine policemen . |
| 21 | For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose . |
| 22 | Although during Roman times bronze and marble were the materials most commonly used in sculpture , the tradition of reproducing the human form in ivory was continued in the small scale reliefs carved on the backs of the writing tablets which served as official presents in pagan antiquity and as votive offerings in the early Christian church . |
| 23 | The case typified the competing forces and class and gender conflicts which surfaced in early sex education campaigns . |
| 24 | * The Swiss government announced on Oct. 31 that it would impose a tax on fossil fuels which contributed to global warming . |
| 25 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 26 | Sweezy resolved this problem by the introduction of further algebraic notations which distinguished between unproductive consumption of the level pertaining to the previous production period and that which is additional , new , unproductive consumption . |
| 27 | The letter suggests the payments were for MCC shares transferred to Liechtenstein trusts called stiftungs , and adds : ‘ It appears that companies of which I am joint administrator have substantial claims against the stiftungs and any other entities which benefited from these payments . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the United States , there was a recognition that interdisciplinary proposals could ‘ fall between the cracks ’ ( Porter and Rossini ) , and the National Science Foundation set up separate panels to review proposals which fell into this category . |
| 30 | It is worth noting that of the course proposals which fell at this hurdle most were of a very high standard . |