Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When interrogated by the FBI in his British jail , Fuchs identified photographs of one of his contacts , Harry Gold , who named a trail of others which led eventually to an obscure machine-shop manager of Russian parentage , Julius Rosenberg , and his wife Ethel . |
| 2 | Penry carried her carefully down a staircase which led straight into a large sitting-room . |
| 3 | In this perspective , it was industrialization and urbanization which triggered those processes and which led ultimately to a weakening of family ties , and especially ties with kin outside the so-called ‘ conjugal family ’ composed of a couple and their immature children ( Morgan , 1975 , ch. 2 ; Harris , 1983 , chs. 6–8 ) . |
| 4 | It was the beginning of our curiosity about each other which led ultimately to a mutual understanding and respect upon which our friendship became firmly based . |
| 5 | Good humour helped to see Victor through his prolonged ill health , caused by a lung complaint which led ultimately to a transplant operation from which he did not recover . |
| 6 | The prospect of losing the traditional source of their wealth and authority induced among many noblemen a reappraisal of their role which amounted almost to a crisis of identity . |
| 7 | On 30 March , however , an exceptionally violent explosion occurred , blowing off the top 200 metres of the volcano , and propagating a dense eruption cloud which expanded upwards at a speed estimated to be something like 500 metres per second , finally reaching a height of thirty-eight kilometres . |
| 8 | Gray was also one of the twenty nurserymen in the Society of Gardeners led by Philip Miller [ q.v. ] , which met frequently in an attempt to standardize the names of the plants they were growing . |
| 9 | The design aim at the beginning of this project was to have a power supply adjustable over a range of about 5V to 15V which regulated well with a maximum current output of about 5A . |
| 10 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 11 | His chronic disease , which erupted periodically like a benign volcano , was his insurance policy . |
| 12 | To the lower end of each trestle column was attached a ‘ camel 's foot ’ , which consisted essentially of a stout , screwed shaft carrying a large pad base , attached by ball-and-socket connection . |
| 13 | The vituperative messages which poured forth in a veritable torrent of abuse were repeatedly drowned by the dissenting majority who kept up an incessant chant : ‘ Return to work . |
| 14 | His first sight of her was reassuringly normal : a tall , dark girl dressed in a good grey suit of the type favoured by Francesca , which acted effectively as a uniform without doing much for her . |
| 15 | Sitting on the tall range , its small legs sticking out over the bright brass rail which acted both as a safety barrier round the hotplates and as a place to hang grubby kitchen towels , the small attendant 's face was almost at the same level as the human 's . |
| 16 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 17 | Finn pushed at the door , which stuck momentarily on a thick doormat as if unwilling to let them in . |
| 18 | Unhampered by demanding males , the ladies were free to control the city 's social life , which burgeoned forth as a result of the suddenly acquired wealth of the inhabitants . |
| 19 | For example , management training , which figured prominently as a topic for which there is most need of external course provision has been noted as being very suitable for courses run by own local authority central training units : ‘ Training courses designed to teach managerial techniques can be aimed at candidates from all kinds of professions and different departments , and it will be extremely beneficial for library staff to mix with colleagues from other departments and disciplines . ‘ |
| 20 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |
| 22 | The rope was knotted round her neck which hung sideways at a bizarre angle . |
| 23 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 24 | The two square yards of broadloom devoted to the open hallway were almost blocked by a large bamboo plant , made of plastic , which waved majestically over a little fountain cascading water over two plastic shell-shaped basins which miraculously never overflowed . |
| 25 | The prince at last leaned forward on the verge , we assumed , of uttering some revelation — but instead blocked his right nostril with his index finger and noisily expelled from his left an impressive length of mucus which plummeted precisely through a small hole in the floor . |
| 26 | The real problem is that Televisa 's experience in Mexico may have convinced it that a strategy which worked well in a market where the company was protected by the government is one that will succeed in the face of intense competition . |
| 27 | The inspector , however , found that any bonuses deriving from this design ‘ have been lost and also much of the experience and skill of the ‘ old Feltham ’ which coped well with a difficult borstal population' . |
| 28 | Cnut 's taking of a second , imperial , crown may well have been stimulated not only by a position in Scandinavia which emulated that of Swegen , but by achievements in Britain which lay firmly in a tradition established by the greatest of his royal Anglo-Saxon predecessors . |
| 29 | On the afterdeck of Maurice , which lay slightly at an angle to Grace , a strange transformation had taken place . |
| 30 | Her startled eyes absorbed the thick , short , golden-streaked hair swept back from a broad forehead , ears long and narrow as a satyr 's which grew close to a beautifully formed skull , a mouth of unutterable sweetness countered by a long jaw carved out of golden teak faintly blurred by a light stubble , and a chin that jutted in a formidable challenge . |