Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 2 | Dope was n't , but the drug legal advice service ‘ Release ’ which concerned itself with the increasing number of busts — and junkies — began operating in West London . |
| 3 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 4 | Ms Darlow took along her wedding gown for one and her grandmother 's hat and muff for another an outfit which lent itself to a sepia finish , said Mrs Simmons . |
| 5 | Last season , Dungannon won the Ulster League which qualified them for a ‘ round-robin ’ series with the other provincial winners in a bid to gain entry to the AIL . |
| 6 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 7 | In 1964 the TUC sold its 40 per cent of the Herald to the Mirror Group , which relaunched it as the Sun . |
| 8 | As a very young child he witnessed scenes which equalled anything from the imagination of Rider Haggard . |
| 9 | Engineers were dominated by craft unionism which divided them by organization and levels of skill even within the newly created Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 10 | Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth . |
| 11 | A dress which enveloped her in an aura of purity . |
| 12 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 13 | ‘ The drugs , ’ Rain demanded in a voice which revealed nothing but composure . |
| 14 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 15 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 16 | The last of these was the excavation at Alexandrov led by Academician Boris Rybakov , which unearthed nothing but ancient foundations . |
| 17 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 18 | With the help of John , Malc and I auditioned several excellent musicians , none of which became one with me . |
| 19 | Robert Southey ( 1774–1843 ) who was later to become poet laureate , discovered the medieval Chronica del Cid during his childhood in Spain , and later made a translation which became something of a best-seller in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Rows of the many splendoured jugs which became something of a trademark in her work dangle from the ceiling beams , and one of her own last canvases from the 1980s rests on a paint-splattered easel at the window . |
| 21 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 22 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 23 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 24 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 25 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 26 | It was this change of circumstances which led me in announcing the making of the emergency order to say that W. 's wishes were no longer of weight . |
| 27 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 28 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 29 | Like artists of the earlier wars , Keane was frustrated by his dependence on the forces , their movements , their security and their unalloyed , albeit good-natured , company , which led him to be protected from real military action and from the indigenous civilian population of Iraq . |
| 30 | It was in the course of his translation work that he received in 1790 the stimulus which led him to his radical rethink of medical treatment . |