Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker Greenbank , a wall-coverings group , had claimed £15m from the firm and Alan and William Carr , owners of a shelving company , Alkar , which WG bought in 1987 . |
| 2 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 3 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 4 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 5 | The inventions which Salomons patented from 1874 included an automatic railway-signalling system . |
| 6 | This table was made like a tray ; when lifted , its legs could be snapped up or snapped down — a solemn sort of conjuring trick which Twomey performed with quiet authority . |
| 7 | But in the Colbeck Collection there is a manuscript of about 2,300 words which Edward wrote in 1895 ; it is corrected in his much later I handwriting and is entitled ‘ Dad ’ . |
| 8 | They made plans to meet in Harry 's room sometimes dating the Christmas Vacation which Edward devoted to intense preparations for an entrance scholarship to Merton and continuous work at Latin and Mathematics for Responsions . |
| 9 | This revision was a further stage in the territorial reordering which Edward undertook between 1473 and 1475 . |
| 10 | This revision was a further stage in the territorial reordering which Edward undertook between 1473 and 1475 . |
| 11 | Jung seemed to have lost the emphasis on the body , and especially on the sexual instincts , which Freud retained in all his work . |
| 12 | Of the five successive Club finals in which Llanelli appeared from 1972–76 , Jenkins played in only two . |
| 13 | When Ruth entered the study the vicar was sitting at his desk ; a large mahogany desk with a green leather top , which Ruth polished with loving care every Wednesday . |
| 14 | Central to this compromise was an agreement to increase support to " southern " countries for which Spain argued with particular vehemence and success . |
| 15 | In the settings of four aphoristic poems by Istvan Balint for soprano and 14 players — which Kurtag began in 1972 and recently revised — the outside influences declared themselves quite readily , whether they were from East European folk music or Webern : and in this performance , the soprano Adrienne Csengery and Sinfonietta excelled themselves with sudden flashes of colour and bursts of intense virtuosity . |
| 16 | The impact of this news upon the whole Wordsworth set was shattering ; many of his biographers feel that the experience was the pivot on which Wordsworth swung from youthful to middle-aged attitudes , from liberal to Tory opinions , from atheism to orthodox Christianity . |
| 17 | The pass degree which Wordsworth received in 1791 was hardly fair evidence of his abilities . |
| 18 | This was the basis of the position which Barth presented with particular volcanic power in the second edition of his Romans ; but it contained another central element as well . |
| 19 | A further benefit which England gained from continued possession of the residual Plantagenet inheritance was maritime supremacy . |
| 20 | The property , which Dockbuild bought in 1989 , was due to be demolished to make way for the fifth stage of the inner ring road . |
| 21 | This reversal was brought about both by Edward 's own pressure and by the hostility which Pecham encountered from some of his suffragans and from royal clerks . |
| 22 | The narrowness of vision that Morrison and Low pinpoint is actually not unlike that of Skinner ( referred to earlier in this chapter ) , which Chomsky attacked to such deadly effect . |
| 23 | The pattern of their relationship was to be repeated in many of the ‘ chance-started friendships ’ which Coleridge formed in later years . |
| 24 | Next month , the first £15m phase of Carden Park , which Broome acquired as sole proprietor in 1988 , will be opened . |
| 25 | On his return he gave Hocazade the Esediye medrese in Bursa with a salary of 10 akce a day , a post in which Hocazade remained for six years . |
| 26 | The first of these to be discovered was a gigantic carnivore from the Jurassic rocks of Stonesfield , Oxfordshire , which Buckland described in 1824 under the name Megalosaurus ( great lizard ) . |
| 27 | Omron and Omron Data General Corp ( the Japanese Data General subsidiary which Ormon acquired in 1991 ) are to manufacture and sell the Luna 2001 in Japan . |
| 28 | Omron and Omron Data General Corp — the Japanese Data General subsidiary , which Ormon acquired in 1991 — are to manufacture and sell the Luna 2001 in Japan . |
| 29 | The sixth medium featured on the tape , recorded in January last year , said the dog she ‘ saw ’ had a short tail and was pushing her head into Tom 's hand , which Tom confirmed as typical Border Terrier behaviour . |
| 30 | It was after that that Edward gratefully accepted the thirteen-year truce which Bruce offered on less than favourable terms . |