Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the highlight of a generally flat year for Olivetti , during which saw its market share rise to 6.1% from 5.8% . |
| 2 | As has been recorded in this chapter , the principal anti-cancer drugs have been discovered either as a by-product of military research financed by government or by research in the pharmaceutical industry , much of which had its roots in research not primarily concerned with cancer . |
| 3 | The pigeons were then split into two groups , one of which had their bills smeared with olive oil and the other with turpentine . |
| 4 | She was a being apart from the visitors belonging to everybody else , and there were admiring stares and not a few tut-tuts of disapproval from some of the senile-decays for her vivid make-up and briskly clacking high heels , all of which sent my morale sky-rocketing . |
| 5 | The results from Wimpey Asphalt Hong Kong , Springfield Disposal and Overseas Contracting — all of which exceeded their budgets — served to give some respectability to the overall figures of Wimpey Minerals UK . |
| 6 | Emboldened by such success , Christie 's felt able to organise an all-Cartier sale , held in Geneva in 1992 , the results of which justified their confidence . |
| 7 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 8 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 9 | In many cases , they were kept in a container with ageing brown British Palestinian passports , the last used page of which registered their owner 's final departure into exile . |
| 10 | Sergeant King 's widow Monica sat clutching a handkerchief in the public gallery and heard how her husband died last November of four stab wounds to the head and neck and four wounds to the chest , one of which hit his heart . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary was acting under clause 13(4) of the Licence and Agreement between him and the BBC and section 29(3) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 both of which gave him power to give the broadcasting authorities notice in writing requiring them to refrain from broadcasting any specified matter or classes of matter . |
| 12 | He speaks of one of the ‘ largest and compleatest works in the kingdom for making iron and steel wire ’ , much of which found its way around the county in the form of ‘ cards ’ for the woollen industry . |
| 13 | Most of his paintings were elaborate , detailed , large-scale affairs , some of which found their way to city municipalities in Canada and Australia . |
| 14 | All sorts of people got fees for services of many types , not all of which found their way into the survey . |
| 15 | The now conscious impulses , two or three of which dominated my example in the previous section , proliferate by this means . |
| 16 | My Department received more than 800 representations in response to the consultation paper , ’ A New Tax for Local Government ’ , most of which welcomed its principles . |
| 17 | But she lapsed into unconsciousness after being dumped down a 15ft embankment on the M50 where she suffered a series of blows , one of which broke her jaw , Dr Peter Acland , a Home Office pathologist , told Shrewsbury Crown Court . |
| 18 | The next day , a new member , Clyde Balsley , received a hideous wound in the thigh from an explosive bullet , fragments of which perforated his intestines in a dozen places . |
| 19 | To be so accepting of whatever came her way was to be comfortable but also to be dead . |
| 20 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |
| 21 | He showed a scrupulous concern for the monastic observance of those monks who had formerly composed the community of what became his cathedral church . |
| 22 | The temple was the house of the god , within which dwelt his cult image , usually a statue . |
| 23 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 24 | Despite its eulogistic tone Oldershaw 's memory seems more credible than E. C. Bentley 's half-humorous , half-invented sketch of Thomas aged sixteen during his first half-year at St. Paul 's : ‘ It was Walker [ Frederick Walker , the High Master ] too , who had made this possible by clearing the ‘ History Eighth ’ , the first recruits to which included my friend Oldershaw and myself , soon to be joined by an exceptionally reserved and quiet boy who usually had in his pocket a rat or so , and a few snakes , which he would shut in his desk with books , and occasionally peep at stealthily — Edward Thomas the poet . ’ |
| 25 | Her hair was twisted into tight steel-grey rolls on which sat her clinic cap with its distinctive badge . |
| 26 | At least , not until you run your eye over what came my way this very morning . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd wander down the high street , frittering away on whatever took my fancy . |
| 29 | If , therefore , in the present case the revenue was under no contractual obligation to repay the money , and had refused to exercise such residuary discretion as it had to repay , it is difficult to see on what ground its refusal to repay could have been challenged , except on very narrow grounds such as bad faith : cf. the Chetnik case [ 1988 ] A.C. 858 , 873g , per Lord Bridge of Harwich . |
| 30 | Meals for the three of us — two adults and a child — ranged from around £22 to £35 , depending on what tickled our fancy . |