Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 2 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 3 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 4 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 5 | Prosecution Counsel Steven Williamson described the horrific atrtack which took place in Mrs Howe 's room on campus . |
| 6 | The right-angled Swastika symbolizes the centrifugal force which strives to release all things from the gravitational pull and propels us towards mental activity , growth and evolution . |
| 7 | While the episode revealed the enormous power which the USA could wield in the American hemisphere , such actions provided no permanent solution to the fundamental causes of instability in Latin America — and they led to widespread anti-American feeling . |
| 8 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 9 | Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions . |
| 10 | It was also necessary to fabricate and fit a new rotating cowl to replace the louvred terminal which was missing from the apex of the south-east roundel . |
| 11 | A light wind stirred the coarse grass which grew thick and rough on the eroded banks , but thinned to the odd clump as it reached the river 's thick , iodine coated mud |
| 12 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 13 | Although at first he had to consolidate his position at home , it was always his ambition to undermine the European order which had come into being after the defeat of his uncle . |
| 14 | In the end it will need the writer of Jonah to recall the great truth which his people found , and which the Church still finds so hard to grasp , namely that God does indeed throw his largesse to all and sundry . |
| 15 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |
| 16 | These joints give the arthrophytes ( ‘ jointed plants ’ ) their scientific name , and the little whorls of tiny branches produce the bushy appearance which accounts for their popular one . |
| 17 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |
| 18 | Here the writer gropes for words to describe the indescribable communion which followed the sacrifice and fulfilled the covenant . |
| 19 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 20 | Such counter-examples have led some philosophers attracted to the logico-linguistic conception to take the audacious course which involves , in part , simply ignoring the very large part of consciousness which does not fall under the conception . |
| 21 | In a statement quoted by Syrian Arab Republic Radio Arafat praised the pan-Arab position which Syria had expressed at the Madrid conference . |
| 22 | This chapter demonstrates the important role which demographic data and projections play in planning education provision . |
| 23 | It is an attempt to reuse the fictional form which first reached exhaustion , that of the epistolary novel . |
| 24 | Travis raced to the Gormans ' cottage and with great difficulty told the distressed couple what had happened . |
| 25 | The existing bridge was erected as a temporary measure to replace the original bridge which was destroyed by floods . |
| 26 | The ants in the kitchen ate the sweet jelly which was on the table . |
| 27 | Cast-iron columns and a curved rib framework support the conical roof which has a diameter of 180 feet . |
| 28 | The example of Senegal shows the crucial role which such forces can play , and their potential growth elsewhere is discussed further in Chapter 12 . |
| 29 | 12–1–1847 The Session approved the faithful stand which the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company have made for preserving the sanctity of the Sabbath , by their resolution to discontinue running their carriages on that Holy day . |
| 30 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |