Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 2 | An organization calling itself the Mujahidin Kashmir claimed responsibility for planting bombs which exploded at two New Delhi police stations on April 10 , injuring nine policemen . |
| 3 | It is worth noting that of the course proposals which fell at this hurdle most were of a very high standard . |
| 4 | Current local state functions are a microcosm of the repressive and class-biased strategies which apply at central state level ( Cockburn , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 6 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |
| 7 | Sleep could be divided into a number of different phases which recurred at regular intervals throughout the night . |
| 8 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 9 | Sources within the Stock Exchange confirmed yesterday that the sudden pre-bid surge in the traded options market is being examined by an insider dealing investigation team which looks at suspicious activity ahead of the release of price-sensitive information . |
| 10 | Occasionally , we have a picture which survives at some depth , such as this description of the work the smith owed his lord , the Archbishop of Canterbury , on the manor of Tangmere in 1285 : |
| 11 | The Wolds , a remand centre at Brough , North Humberside , is far removed from the insanitary conditions which prevail at many jails . |
| 12 | A portion of a more general two-dimensional surface is pictured in Fig. 3.6. are geodesics across the surface which intersect at right angles ; ON is the local normal to the surface . |
| 13 | Although no definite links have yet been discovered between the first mechanical clocks and earlier geared astronomical models and automata , the way in which a surviving late fourteenth-century clock such as that of Wells Cathedral displays the phases of the moon and figures which emerge at successive hours suggests that such clocks were the product of a continuing tradition from the distant past . |
| 14 | Children may be given tetanus vaccination in the first few weeks of life and its importance is underlined by its inclusion in the primary recommended vaccination schedules which begins at two months . |
| 15 | It postulates that the actual rate of inflation which prevails at any moment in time may be decomposed into two constituent parts : ( a ) an expectational component , measured by the variable , ( b ) an excess demand component , measured , as in the Phillips-Lipsey model , by the magnitude of f(U) . |
| 16 | There is even a seasonal indicator which occurs at this time of year . |
| 17 | Studies which look at individual factors , however , often fail to show substantial effects and sometimes do not put the importance of that factor into true perspective . |
| 18 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 19 | A gate set up by Tom Poole at the bottom of the Lime Street orchard led directly into his own garden , a small secluded area which lay at some distance behind Poole 's house in Castle Street and which –contained , beneath the shelter of a lime-tree , a jasmine-covered arbour . |
| 20 | These strategies included the formation of complex households , containing several nuclear family units , as a response to the severe economic pressures which prevailed at that time ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 77–8 ) . |
| 21 | The excursion party of thirty travelled 10,500 miles in nine weeks with John Mason overseeing all the arrangements , dealing with over a hundred railway and steamboat officials and lamenting the ‘ lightening ’ steamboats and trains which travelled at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 22 | According to Ibn Hajar , Molla Fenari seems to have ignored a number of invitations to audiences with the sultan , but was finally present at an audience to celebrate the Prophet 's birthday , held , according to al-Makrizi , on Friday 7 Rabi " I. Molla Fenari , who was seated below the shaykh of the Mu'ayyadiyya , Ibn al-Dayri , took no part in the learned debate which occurred at that audience but was later present at a private audience with the sultan , when the two conversed . |
| 23 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 24 | Public marches permit the display of one 's symbols : the flags , the banners , the open Bible , and , on occasions , the uniforms which hint at potential violence . |
| 25 | But there is Company Standing Training Committee , which comprises people from divisions which looks at those issues , run by Jenny . |
| 26 | I have seen choppers almost totally destroyed from a height of less than three inches , yet have seen many crashes which started at 100 feet , or more , and produced only minimal damage . |
| 27 | As they entered , the cat leapt clear of the tangle of antique furniture which lay at crazy angles , fractured arms and legs like a grotesque mockery of a holocaust scene . |
| 28 | William Stukeley , though , considered the church to be situated on the north side of All Saints Street and he drew a sketch of a fifteenth-century door which survived at that time . |
| 29 | Mimms is now with his ninth League club , a nomadic journey which began at lowly Halifax , reached a dead-end as Neville Southall 's understudy at Everton and hit its nadir at Tottenham . |
| 30 | Llyn y Bi is a small 3 metre deep lake which lies at 445 metres in the Rhinogs of Snowdonia National Park , the most acidified mountain range in Wales . |