Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost a third of the clients for whom the development officers provided a service they obtained or increased cover from other services . |
| 2 | The rams were revived ; the catapults were improved ; and the invention of the trebuchet provided a weapon which could throw a large stone for a short distance with considerable force . |
| 3 | But the problem remained that the physical basis of Ampère 's equations was implausible ; they provided a model which could be adapted to fit new discoveries , but which did not lead to new predictions or give a convincing explanation to those whose first language was not mathematics-like Faraday . |
| 4 | Traffic grew closer and trees sparser until she entered a glade which ran down to the road . |
| 5 | There he entered a museum which had no antiquities , and in the course of several years built galleries to house two private collections which he brought to the museum . |
| 6 | Consequently , the United States has tended to be most vociferous about a ‘ peace process ’ when this has excluded the Soviet Union , and promised a solution which would strengthen American influence in the region . |
| 7 | Exactly fifty years earlier , two scientists in the Physics Department demonstrated a device which changed the course of history , and which can now be found in 48% of British homes . |
| 8 | A rally in Hyde Park on 6 June 1982 drew a crowd which the police estimated at 115,000 ( the Department of the Environment banned the playing of music at the demonstration ) . |
| 9 | I drew a chair which was ergonomically eighteen inches from the ground and sketched an average sized person sitting on it . |
| 10 | Ion Pacepa has described how scientists working for the Securitate designed a telephone which could be used to bug both phone conversations and any talk in the room where the apparatus was located . |
| 11 | They interviewed parents , specialist professionals and mainstream day-care workers and they designed a questionnaire which was completed by workers in a large proportion of mainstream council services and voluntary organisations , as well as by some child-minders . |
| 12 | He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 13 | COPS in Miami described a baboon which escaped from a zoo during Hurricane Andrew as ‘ unarmed but dangerous . ’ |
| 14 | A tramp named Frederick Redvers Johns described a man he saw throwing a parcel over a nearby railway bridge on the evening of 22 June . |
| 15 | While recognizing the changes that were taking place Holmes described a characteristic which has survived intact : |
| 16 | The new idea — ‘ the maladjusted child ’ — described a child who had social or emotional inhibitions which blocked ‘ normal development ’ . |
| 17 | Further refinements developed : for example , Dejerine ( 1982 ) described a patient whose disorder in the processing of written language was confined to its perception — that is , this patient could still write normally , even though his reading had been severely impaired by brain damage . |
| 18 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 19 | In nine cases a subject described a situation which was not at one of the 40 junctions of interest , these were either descriptions of junctions on the practice route or events which occurred between junctions on the route , these were not coded . |
| 20 | She described a strategy she had developed to deal with this : |
| 21 | He described a view he rejected as follows : |
| 22 | Earlier we described a paradox which was that each user or group of users has a different need for information and the way that is presented to him . |
| 23 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 24 | Instead , he proposed a package which provided for the highest degree of democratization permitted under the Basic Law , the colony 's Constitution which had been approved by China in 1990 . |
| 25 | In Sinead 's interview , she proposed a motion which says : ‘ If everyone else was going to do it , would you be prepared to live without money ? ’ |
| 26 | He proposed a model which attempted to ‘ weight ’ various commodities used by settlers to a greater or lesser degree , including land use , which will be considered further below . |
| 27 | I never seen a radiator What ? |
| 28 | But when I went to university , I did n't bother at all until I encountered a girl who I got the impression would be immensely impressed if I could speak . |
| 29 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 30 | Another night Penn was with them when they disarmed a guy who was shooting off a shotgun in the street . |