Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
| 2 | The jelly which separates them gives the organism a degree of rigidity needed to withstand the buffeting of the sea . |
| 3 | Part-time firefighters carry a paging unit which alerts them to make the dash to the fire station when a 999 call is made . |
| 4 | This no doubt explains one of Hudson 's tests on the schoolboys , which asked them to write a description of a scientist 's wife , and a novelist 's wife , not a novelist 's husband . |
| 5 | The less agreeable side of Mathilde 's nature revealed itself in her tendency to what the French call l'esprit démolisseur , a sort of wilful destructiveness , which led her to become a focus for the intellectually disaffected during the Empire . |
| 6 | In my opinion in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. , the fact that the residence requirement was applicable to British citizens and nationals of other member states alike was the main element in the reasoning which led me to take the view , unlike the court , that that requirement was compatible with Community law : see para. 57 . |
| 7 | It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities . |
| 8 | On this prompting the Base controller also saw a trace which led him to challenge the aircraft 's position report at BN . |
| 9 | In Joan Wake 's book The Brudenells of Deene one reads that ‘ not the least of John , Duke of Montagu 's many attractive qualities was a love for animals , which led him to maintain a hospital for sick dogs at his house in Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire ’ . |
| 10 | In the light of the advice from their own officers and consultants , the Council decision to reject all inner northern routes , throws doubt on the decision making process which led them to support an outer northern route . |
| 11 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 12 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 13 | Most overseas students have a limitation on employment stamped into their passports when they land which forbids their taking a job while here . |
| 14 | As an example of how punctuation rules work , consider the rule which forbids you inserting a comma to separate the subject and the verb . |
| 15 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 16 | His hand wavered , and she noticed the steel discipline which made him drop the phone back in its cradle and wait while she sipped the water . |
| 17 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 18 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 19 | Aspects which made him remember an Olvia and mourn the death of that comparative stranger . |
| 20 | Her back was as straight as a ramrod , which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling . |
| 21 | The story was n't exactly all over the front page , but it started there with photographs of Mercer and Bambi and continued inside , with a glamorous back-lit formal shot of Xanthe , which made her look a lot older than her published age , fifteen . |
| 22 | My heart was beating in my throat making it hard to swallow , my nose was running , my hands were cold and I could n't get enough oxygen , which made me yawn every few seconds . |
| 23 | Their souls survive as a ‘ collective ghost ’ which begs anyone entering the chamber to bury all the skeletons and bury them in a graveyard consecrated by a cleric of Mórr . |
| 24 | Three 20-minute sessions a week which make you breathe a bit harder can improve circulation , help fight stress and improve the efficiency of your heart and lungs . |
| 25 | It is not always the larger issues which make you doubt a guardian 's suitability . |
| 26 | The child of seven who can read fluently will not be held back so that an identical level of attainment can be achieved by all : the slow learner will not become the victim of a system which challenges him to achieve a goal which is unattainable . |
| 27 | A brief moment of the winter which pursued her sent a scampering chill through the warm place . |
| 28 | Plant nutrients are derived in the most part from the decomposition of plant and animal remains , during which process they reach a peat-like structure that has remarkable powers of moisture absorption and retention , and at the same time has considerable influence on the physical texture and structure of the soil . |
| 29 | ‘ The music has an awakening effect , which has you leaving the theatre with more energy and life than before . ’ |
| 30 | The key factor in the overall course of British economic development has been the particular , even unique , class character of British capitalism in the division between industrial and finance capital which has itself entailed a spatial division between the industrial provinces and the metropolitan hub of finance and commerce . |