Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kim Hyon Hui , 27 , a convicted North Korean saboteur , received a presidential pardon on April 12 which exempted her from the death penalty . |
| 2 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 3 | On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth . |
| 4 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 5 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |