Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the younger generation the arrival of the book in the wake of Penguin 's successful defence met with an enthusiasm which rarely survived a thumbing of its pages . |
| 2 | POLICE are investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged a large mill last night . |
| 3 | A fire which badly damaged a house at Leam Lane , Felling , near Gateshead , was started by a six-year-old girl playing with a lighter , police said last night . |
| 4 | The group , which successfully blocked a plan to extend a golf club over Tunstall Hills , is now aiming to get the local landmark protected . |
| 5 | With the development of closed and visored helms , which effectively hid a man 's face , elaborate crests in the shapes of animals , birds , fantastical creatures and other adornments were employed on helmets to signal identity , and these too became associated with particular families . |
| 6 | A single-union agreement was negotiated with the Amalgamated Engineering Union ( AEU ) , which effectively provided a no-strike deal for Nissan . |
| 7 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 8 | Two of his most memorable innings came in one-day internationals , the 138 not out in the 1979 World Cup final and the 189 not out at Old Trafford in 1984 which single-handedly transformed a desperate situation into a winning one , and which will surely never be forgotten by anyone who saw it . |
| 9 | There were 1,019 murders in the first seven months of 1989 , 1 per cent below the same period last year , which eventually reached a record 1,896 . |
| 10 | Eric was going to do a trip around the world when he left Mayall , which eventually became a trip to Greece . |
| 11 | Hudson , the 26-year-old Natal opener , would not have noticed , rapt as he was in a deep reverie of concentration and technique which eventually produced a monumental 163 off 384 balls in nearly 8¾ hours . |
| 12 | In fact , the supposed readiness of Russians to ‘ accept ’ baptized or otherwise assimilated natives as Russians is in itself a manifestation of the national arrogance of the Russians , which eventually engendered a sense of inferiority among many of the indigenous peoples . |
| 13 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 14 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 15 | Here , I 'd like to say that I , I do very much welcome the abandonment of the two wayside routes it gives me particular satisfaction because you recall earlier in the year there was some irresponsible press comments on the subject which greatly upset a lot of people |
| 16 | But even the papal chancery , which alone had a system for preserving important letters , had no regular means of communicating decisions to those who were most affected by them . |
| 17 | Although by 1989 the height of the economic crisis had passed , the structural effects of the war and the US embargo left Nicaragua with severe internal shortages , drastically reduced production levels and exports which only covered a quarter of the import bill . |
| 18 | What intrigued me most , however , was the arrangement of four dangling neck-ties , like swaying cobras , which only needed a squatting snakecharmer to really hypnotise . |
| 19 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 20 | The myth was probably sparked off by the existence of a St. Thomas ' Lane and Well in the town ( locations now unknown ) , the St. Thomas ' chapel in All Saints ' church , and the Hospital of St. Thomas and St. John ( now Lord Burghley 's Almshouses ) , which apparently had a chapel over the bridge . |
| 21 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 22 | The clearest example is Charterhouse which relied on the exploitation of lead and silver from the Mendips ; mining occurred over an extensive area , largely to the south-east of the town , which apparently possessed a complex street system and a small amphitheatre . |
| 23 | Erm there are methods of doing this nine in total er ranging from er checking the accounts of the landlords who ran sort of pr who collected public money erm to imposing fines er I do n't know all this , contribution , minor protests , major protests which apparently involved a crowd of fifteen thousand er rallying to demonstrate against the local tyrant the gentry erm and then they 'd often crown the landlord villages |
| 24 | Is our society sick when an apparently minor happening which merely merited a caution can destroy a man 's career , indeed his life , for many years to come ? |
| 25 | Richard Gould had published a book Yiwara , foragers of the Australian desert which unwisely included a photograph of sacred objects , knowledge of which is restricted to initiated men . |
| 26 | The accumulation of an ever-increasing number of empirical case studies which together comprise(d) a broadening data base to describe users , activities and patterns of use in relation to the existing supply of opportunities . |
| 27 | Thames Tunnel Mills is , in fact , two buildings , which together formed a warehouse and flour mill . |
| 28 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 29 | Unless it was n't the money , but the envelope , which obviously contained a letter . |
| 30 | Good public relations were made a priority , so that the atmosphere surrounding the team was always cordial , which obviously had a beneficial effect on the players . |