Example sentences of "[Wh det] run [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the small elastic strains which recover when the load is taken off brittle solids do not distort before failure and fracture is usually by a crack or cracks which run cleanly through the material . |
| 2 | And they 're also afraid of his Indian wild animals which run freely around the garden . |
| 3 | Eduardo Paolozzi 's colourful complexities of grid and cog , which run riotously beyond the platforms and through the whole station at Tottenham Court Road , mirror the buzzing electronics and music shops at road level . |
| 4 | Organisational reforms have tried to help them find a voice : through positive discrimination in the form of reserved seats on committees at all levels ; through National Women 's Officers ; through Women 's Advisory Committees which run parallel to the decision-making committees of the unions and have free access to the latter but no voting rights . |
| 5 | This is the area between the southern edge of the shopping area and the top of the bluffs which run down to the river . |
| 6 | The structure must therefore be secured firmly to the walls through timber ‘ wall-plates ’ which run horizontally around the top of the brickwork , and all the elements — battens , rafters , trusses , purlins and wallplates — must be securely fastened to each other as well as to the walls . |
| 7 | This was not the distillery at Newton House which was supplied with water from Loch Skerrols by a lade which ran just inside the wall of the wood below Newton school where J. MacFarlane made 3937 gallons . |
| 8 | ’ I pointed to the high sill which ran just beneath the horn-glazed covering . |
| 9 | They followed the track which ran on to the road . |
| 10 | He would make occasional forays into the United States or films , but Lynn 's only real home was in Aldwych farces as part of the Travers team which ran triumphantly into the 1930s , and he stayed with them , creating and recreating the role of the silly ass forever working his way out of impossible situations , often armed with nothing more than the famous monocle , a daft grin , and an apparently inexhaustible ability to triumph over adversity by the sheer idiocy of his own imagination . |
| 11 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 12 | THE liner QE2 , which ran aground off the US coast three weeks ago , will cruise again on October 4 after repairs . |
| 13 | The amount of oil spilt was twice as much as the Exxon Valdez which ran aground off Alaska in 1989 , and slightly more than Aegean Sea which ran aground off the Spanish coast in December [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 14 | M. Grimaud showed Frederica how , by building a slate dam here , releasing a little stone floodgate there , he diverted the clear water into its summer channel , a stone-lined gully which ran down beside the house and along its front wall , passing under slabstone doorsteps . |
| 15 | Traffic grew closer and trees sparser until she entered a glade which ran down to the road . |
| 16 | A woman in a heavy coat , head-scarf and fur-lined boots stood patiently holding a string which ran down through a circular hole in the ice . |
| 17 | I thought the fellow meant the bailey but he took us out into a garden which ran down towards a small river . |
| 18 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 19 | The car drew to a halt by a green sward of carefully tended lawn which ran down from an impressive-looking office building towards the river . |
| 20 | There was a market down the centre , the stalls facing out , but the air and ground were polluted with the blood , dirt and ordure which ran down from the shambles where the animals were slaughtered and the gore allowed to find its own channel . |
| 21 | Its form was dictated by the tightness of the site between Flinders Street and the river , which necessitated stringing out the narrow building along the full length of platforms which ran parallel to the river behind . |
| 22 | They would lie up the following day along the rocky escarpment which ran parallel to the coastal plain to observe their targets , the airfields at Timimi and Gazala . |
| 23 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 24 | The evidence in support of these allegations was vague and in the event unsubstantiated despite in extensive Social Services investigation which ran parallel to the Statementing procedures . |
| 25 | With my father , who was trying to protect me and his cigarettes at the same time , I jumped into a nearby ditch which ran parallel to the road . |
| 26 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 27 | He walked through the Blue Boar 's yard and on up the narrow lane which ran directly to the village of Purton , a distance of a quarter of a mile . |
| 28 | Some of the larger aircraft were transferred to the parking area at Amman airport , for a long time the only point from which Iraq could be entered from abroad , as foreign airlines were hesitant about using traditional air corridors which ran close to a war zone . |
| 29 | He would stand in the corridor which ran along past the junior classrooms , as he had done that morning , and listen to the lessons being given . |
| 30 | Naîve as it may sound , Morrissey 's ideals ( which ran opposite to the ‘ If he does n't get himself a missus soon he 'll be left on the shelf … or he 's a pooftah … ’ mentality ) attracted many young admirers . |