Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 2 | Captain of the 1975–76 team that won an FA Cup semi-final place for the first time in the club 's history , and then of the side which gained promotion to Division Two the following season , Ian 's future with us looked rosy indeed . |
| 3 | The Committee organises an interesting programme which includes visits to science exhibitions and talks by guest speakers . |
| 4 | ‘ The Character of Completeness , and your subsequent book with us , have both been bought by a firm in the States which sells textbooks to Harvard University . |
| 5 | Liège municipal council found itself bankrupt in September 1989 , when Gemeentekrediet , a publicly owned financial institution which gave credit to municipalities , refused to grant the city a new loan ( in addition to its debts which already totalled BF30,000 million ) , unless a guarantee from the Walloon regional government was obtained . |
| 6 | ensure that the debt is not invalid ( statute which varies country to country ) |
| 7 | In the face of a common enemy , Serbs , Croats , Italians and Vlahs were able to unite in defence of the Dalmatian city states which owed allegiance to Venice . |
| 8 | To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness . |
| 9 | Problems with the meter are magnetic hysteresis , magnetic shielding , low sensitivity and appreciable inductance of the fixed coil which restricts usage to frequencies below ∼300 Hz . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Benjamin Jowett [ q.v. ] started an inquiry into the alleged deterioration in the quality of Oxford 's printing which gave impetus to Hart 's re-equipment and extension of the machine-room . |
| 11 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
| 12 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
| 13 | The talk was one of the many social activities which include visits to Exbury Gardens , Bournemouth and Haslemere Theatre . |
| 14 | Ten units each in two stages structured for practice in special vocabulary , language use , and extension activities which give opportunity to practice language in a less controlled way . |
| 15 | His ultimate conversion , after long and courteous discussions which added cubits to Gandhi 's stature , provided a timely justification of the latter 's claim to leadership . |
| 16 | Given the complexity of the issues involved here , and the fact that discussions which gave rise to teacher comment were frequently lengthy and often contentious , any attempted summary of remarks is necessarily difficult . |
| 17 | Thus most Tories supported the war with France in William 's reign as both necessary and desirable , whilst it was a House of Commons with a Tory majority which committed England to war in defence of a balance of power in 1701 . |
| 18 | A function which converts radians to degrees . |
| 19 | A function which converts degrees to radian . |
| 20 | Extent of labour force participation is an important indicator of the position of women because on the one hand , it is a way in which women contribute to the economic development of their countries and , on the other , because work is a major source of income which gives access to education , culture , power and other factors influencing social status . |
| 21 | J. The most famous scene which attracts tourists to Northern Ireland is the Giant 's Causeway , a mass of pillars of basalt rock on the northern coast of the Antrim plateau . |
| 22 | * It is also possible to put presuppositions into a sentence by just rearranging the parts , as in the following example ( called a CLEFT ) , based on " Senecan influence brought blood to Renaissance tragedy " : It was Senecan influence which brought blood to Renaissance tragedy . |
| 23 | In Dewsbury the Council got the magistrates to cooperate in reporting pubs which gave sweets to children under thirteen in order to entice them inside the Wigan Council got the Home Secretary to the local police force . |
| 24 | In 1944 R. A. Butler , the President of the Board of Education , enacted a new Education Act which gave aid to Church schools in a new compromise and made provision for the raising of the school leaving age to fifteen at the end of the war and to sixteen at some date thereafter . |
| 25 | It is clear , therefore , that rules of English law which restrict access to courts , tribunals and remedies may fall foul of the principle of effective protection recognized by EC law ; and the greater the restriction , the more likely is it to do so . |
| 26 | The elements which bring language to life in a classroom are gestures , handling and touching things , incidents , pictures , some or all of which may be part of a game or a contest . |
| 27 | The nationwide hunt for the maker of the explosives is centred in Grampian , where detectives are also investigating a possible link with last week 's elaborate hoax which brought chaos to Aberdeen . |
| 28 | The starting point for investigation may be taken to be the eighteenth-century revolutionary movements which gave impetus to beliefs that social progress was possible and that social organization could be reconstructed in accordance with rational principles . |
| 29 | The latter requirement holds no difficulty , rather it is the former requirement which gives rise to difficulties because on occasions odour problems are complex , the source of the odour being difficult to identify , and it is not always possible to know whether or not a particular method of abatement will effect a cure in any given case . |
| 30 | Although the evidence of seditious words can tell us something about the range of motives which led people to Jacobitism , it can tell us little about how prevalent such sympathies were . |