Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was opened by the gipsy girl who with a decisive movement turned the handle and pulled it wide . |
| 2 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 3 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |
| 4 | His father was a miner who as a young man had started mining in a different coal pit which is closed now . |
| 5 | It was adopted by those abolitionists who in a growing mood of frustration had also developed the agency system . |
| 6 | Some find great benefit in identifying a small group of staff who for a limited period are assigned to a relief pool , for the sole purpose of filling unexpected gaps in staffing or adding strength to a ward team at times of peak workload . |
| 7 | A retired administrator who as a young man had single-handedly turned the tide of mutiny in his district in the North-West Provinces , he believed that since those Homeric days British administration had become dangerously out of touch with the people . |
| 8 | A chief executive of a major UK company who in a public speech stressed how far companies in his industry lagged behind the Japanese found , upon analysis , that the shortfall was almost all due to excessive holdings of assets . |
| 9 | Sure , the anatomy is easy , and there are plenty of women who with a straight face will describe their own post-workout shininess as delicate perspiration and mine as rough sweat . |
| 10 | The " mothers " , as they are generally referred to , are women who until a few years ago had never spoken in public , never organized a campaign . |
| 11 | In other respects it may in principle result in conduct which is wealth reducing overall , as where a company retains employees who on a strict cost/benefit analysis would be made redundant . |
| 12 | Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road . |
| 13 | He had all three and felt that at last the play was under way : this was why he had struck north ; this was why he had learned his part ( and God bless Major General Lake of Dumfries and God keep him there ) ; this was his great opportunity and ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed to himself , ‘ if it is true that You have love even for the worst of Your sinners and let Your Son welcome into Paradise the thief on the cross who by a single act redeemed a life of evil , then remember me at Hause Point , remember how I tried to obey Your will and how I saved that innocent young girl and help me here because I swear , if I succeed in my intention here , I will lead a life of charity and Christian duty to the end . |