Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 2 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 3 | She was still exhausted from the night before , shattered from trying to keep up her bravado with Steve , trying not to let slip what she knew and trying to sound enthusiastic over Steve 's business plans for the future which she knew with a certainty she wanted no part of . |
| 4 | A slow vibration creates low-frequency waves which we hear as a low-pitched noise , while a fast vibration produces a high-pitched noise . |
| 5 | Camden and Islington councils , meanwhile , have given the Met a free copy of LAFIS — a computer programme which they developed at a cost of £15 million , and sold to other authorities for about £2 million a throw . |
| 6 | After the vote Etpison expressed his disappointment over the result which he attributed to a weariness towards the issue by the voters , a sentiment apparently underlined by the comparatively low turnout . |
| 7 | Have well considered questions ready for both types of interview which you ask in a logical sequence . |
| 8 | Store detectives work about seven hours a day , including breaks , and tend to earn from £8,000-£10,000 per year To avoid getting too well known , they have a patch of around 10 shops which they patrol on a rota basis . |
| 9 | Not finding any , he brought back a group of modern realist pictures which he mounted as a selling exhibition , together with a loan show of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian pictures . |
| 10 | Moderator the erm overture which we passed into an act er in the last sentence of section three says the names of such children , that 's those children who have been admitted to erm communion as children , shall be admitted to the communion roll of the congregation when they have made public profession of their faith that is , when they reach the point at which they make that normal statement and the my understanding would be people whose names are on the communion roll . |
| 11 | Dressed in a flared skirt of fine wool which she topped with a shirt and a sweater , Fabia , with a jacket over her arm and too impatient to wait for the lift , hurried down the stairs to meet him . |
| 12 | The elder reacts violently to every action which he construes as an attack upon the dignity of his office and frantically invokes the support of the ancestors . |
| 13 | At once you will have indulgence for all the sins which you confess with a contrite heart . |
| 14 | He was a big-nosed bastard with heavy-lidded eyes , high forehead and a weak mouth which he hid beneath a moustache and beard . |
| 15 | In an interview in the Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 29 , the Secretary-General of the GCC , Abdullah Yacoub Bishara ( Kuwait ) , had stressed the GCC 's emerging alliance with Egypt and Syria which he described as a new " six-plus-two grouping " . |
| 16 | Mrs Addison was a bonny woman with a mass of dark hair which she wore in a coil . |
| 17 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 18 | He wrote it down in his ledger which he used as a kind of diary-cum-commonplace book : and by the vigour of his writing he has brought the encounter vividly to life : |
| 19 | The other end had a hook which he fitted into a ring on the byre wall . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who lives nearby , donated a magnum of champagne which he won as a man of the match prize . |
| 21 | The body felt , to the probe of a stick which they thrust into a chinke , like boyld Brawne . |
| 22 | It 's a small stretchy band , normally worn on the wrist , with a single wire of about six feet and a crocodile clip which you attach to a metal part of your office , that is , desk or radiator but not the computer . |
| 23 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 24 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 25 | Pulling off the silky dress with trembling hands , then the slips of white lace which did service as bra and pants , she angrily kicked off the low-heeled white sandals , raked her long blonde hair out of its French plait , and then plunged gratefully for the privacy of the small en-suite bathroom , standing beneath the shower for a long , soothing soak before she climbed into bed in the baggy jade T-shirt which she wore as a nightshirt . |
| 26 | For his third exhibition at Bernard Jacobson , Maurice Cockrill has made ‘ The Four Seasons ’ , four oval canvases which he shows with a group of new pictures on door panels . |
| 27 | He reckons that up to 70% of Destiny originally featured in the modularised Unix System V.3 implementation that was developed by Convergent Technology for the ill-fated Unix PC which it manufactured under an OEM agreement for AT&T . |
| 28 | Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts . |
| 29 | Before moving to Cleveland , Mr and Mrs Chance ran a 14-bedroomed hotel in Northumberland which they developed from a pub . |
| 30 | Community education organises two large camps each year for special needs students in addition to class provision which it arranges for a number of specific groups of adults : |