Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most had already lit their fore-and-aft lamps , which twinkled like glow-worms in the gathering dusk . |
| 2 | He came from Ethiopia , and his skin was the colour of glistening wet coal except for the palms of his hands , which were sandy pale , and the whites of his eyes , which twinkled like sunshine on fresh clean snow . |
| 3 | ( which overlapped into Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood ) , were freeholders , a numerous class in this district , the remainder lessees for term of years or at will . |
| 4 | Under the existing byelaws , complaints relating to non-reserved work which account for 80% of all the complaints that the Institute receives — can only be investigated against individuals . |
| 5 | The Autoglide can even be used on trackless doors of the canopy variety , which account for 80% of the garage doors installed in the UK , and which conventional garage door openers can not cope with The Autoglide works on a cable principle , with an advanced electronic control box . |
| 6 | The largest proportion of absences are proper nouns and foreign words which account for 78% of the missing tokens ( 75% of the types ) . |
| 7 | What we observe in Belfast may therefore be the reflex of a raising rule that was originally ‘ metropolitan ’ or ‘ mainstream ’ , together with some admixture of Scots raising rules which account for Scots [ glΕs , kΕrt ] ‘ glass , cart ’ , and which are now partly superseded in Scots by lowering and backing rules . |
| 8 | In a few months Michael Portillo is likely to announce initial plans to distinguish ‘ essential costs ’ and ‘ avoidable spending ’ in four departments — Health , Education , the Home Office , and Social Security — which account for £110 billion of public spending . |
| 9 | Allowed to buy only ‘ class B ’ shares , which account for 40% of stockmarket capitalisation , foreigners now own about 30% of the market . |
| 10 | Thin drizzle dampened the pavement , which gleamed in reflection of the oil-lamps within . |
| 11 | Some would even say that the very term " data " limits the possible options in this respect by implying that there are special kinds or orders of phenomena which qualify as data . |
| 12 | The countries which qualify for assistance are those with a per capita GNP of less than US $ 791 ( valued at 1983 dollars ) . |
| 13 | Such theories also opened up other fields in which to search for inspiration . |
| 14 | The really important task facing all religions is whether these particular categorical assertions can be unpacked in such a way as to reveal a piece of the jigsaw which fits with others . |
| 15 | There also seems to be a stress on the function of bishops which fits with Bethurum Loomis ' view of Wulfstan 's attitude to them late in his life . |
| 16 | Well , as I say , er the this part of the meeting is now formally ended , and I 'm going to hand over to er Kay who will Chair the next session , er er which involves of course , as you 've seen , presentations by the N C V O senior staff . |
| 17 | Partly because of this problem , it is useful to define a more general concept , transray convexity , which involves considering bundles of two ( for simplicity ) goods consisting of different proportions . |
| 18 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 19 | In Europe , advisory groups which concentrate on women 's issues have been set up . |
| 20 | Those studies which concentrate on movement between firms necessarily ignore many important aspects of career changes , and the factors which contribute towards high relative earnings of individuals . |
| 21 | MERZ CONTEMPORARY ART Artists against Apartheid — shows work that reflects a ‘ humanitarian impulse ’ and includes the paintings of Jock McFadyen , which concentrate on deprivation in London 's East End . |
| 22 | But workers rejected that offer and the matter was referred to the national executive of the Amalgamated Engineering , Electrical Union , which ruled in favour of the action . |
| 23 | The ‘ shape-changing ’ qualities of the Queen of the Night may be associated with the moon , which waxes from dark to full and declines again . |
| 24 | THIS year sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of HMS Khedive , an assault fighter aircraft carrier which operated with distinction in the South of France landings and in the Aegean Sea , and later against the Japanese . |
| 25 | Named after the famous battleships and secured by a £12 patent , the twenty Dreadnoughts which operated on Blackpool Promenade from the turn of the Century until 1934 , were certainly unique . |
| 26 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 27 | The association , which operated from Darlington Arts Centre in Vane Terrace , has debts of almost £30,000 . |
| 28 | As already indicated , the Conservative party was the dominant member of all three National governments which operated from August 1931 until the Second World War . |
| 29 | The FIMBRA member , Marlingham Financial Services which operated from Mowbray House , The Broadway , Devizes , arranged life assurance and pensions and sold home income plans . |
| 30 | Marx 's major claim for his own work was that he had discovered certain inexorable laws which operated in history and which were comparable in their workings to laws operating in the physical universe such as the law of gravity . |