Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 2 | Aarau became absorbed in their empire , which eventually sprawled across a large area of Europe , imposing both its rule and culture on a curiously assorted collection of peoples and languages . |
| 3 | One of the images showed the trail of a particle more massive than an electron which suddenly turned through a sharp angle making an L-shape , and whose thickness and character changed at the kink . |
| 4 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 5 | First established as a concept by the Catalan artist in 1984 when he announced that he would be donating 300 paintings and 3000 graphic works to the city of Barcelona , the Fundació was the subject of protracted negotiations with the local autonomous government and the Ministry of Culture in Madrid , which finally resulted in a handsome level of funding for building in which to house them . |
| 6 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 7 | Leonard had even met him briefly in 1949 , but this meeting at McGill was the one which quickly developed into a strong and mutual respect , a lifelong friendship . |
| 8 | His tongue tasted her , exploring with delicate strokes which gradually deepened into a passionate demand that blew her mind and exploded all her misconceptions of what a kiss could be . |
| 9 | The moment was propitious , for on 19 April 1775 the first shots were fired , at Lexington in Massachusetts , in the rebellion of the American colonists , which rapidly developed into a full-scale war and led , on 4 July 1776 , to the new United States of America formally proclaiming their independence of Great Britain . |
| 10 | Unwelcome or not , sitting in the darkness , head in hands , there came a picture of the somersaulting St Tom which rapidly turned into a circular blur like a white spinning-top with red stripes … |
| 11 | In addition a bronze arm was found , 133 cm in length , which probably belonged to a colossal statue . |
| 12 | One of the successes of the bubble policy to date includes a plant in Providence , Rhode Island , where $2.7 million was saved by replacing expensive low-sulphur oil at its two plants , one with high-sulphur oil and one with natural gas , which also resulted in a net reduction of the sulphur dioxide emission ( Smith , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | This chapter is therefore an account of a failure to link English with national policy , a failure which also resulted in a radical diminution of the future influence of the English Association . |
| 14 | Together with some dinosaurs , perhaps , and with birds , which also emerged from a different reptilian stock at this time , they developed the capacity for regulating their own body temperature . |
| 15 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 16 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 17 | Yet , their combination of idealism with an emphasis on realism and ornamentation was a typical feature of their own , which often led to a clear mannerism . |
| 18 | A more sentimental genre was represented by Arthur John Elsley 's ‘ Goodnight ’ , of a night-gown attired little girl bidding farewell to her pets , a huge Saint-Bernard and her pups , which surprisingly sold to a French collector for a very strong $160,000 ( £91,900 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) . |
| 19 | The year 's first serious labour dispute began with a three-day unofficial strike at the giant Hyundai shipyard in the southern city of Ulsan which immediately met with a harsh response from the government . |
| 20 | The rest of the budget , which reportedly provided for a partial devaluation , was denominated in rials . |
| 21 | Mr Stone was a committee member of a society which regularly met at a public house owned by a brewery and managed by their employee , Taffe . |
| 22 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 23 | Even the nights were happy , full of wonderful dreams which almost amounted to a second life . |
| 24 | Proceedings were brought by the revenue which ultimately resulted in a Divisional Court holding that the employees in question were not ‘ male servants ’ within the meaning of the Act . |
| 25 | Information sources ? — which either went by a different name or was not recognised at that time . |
| 26 | Name the US aircraft carrier which accidentally fired on a Turkish destroyer , killing five crewmen . |
| 27 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 28 | They adopted the Kuala Lumpur Declaration , which essentially called for a massive transfer of funds from the North to the South to finance environmental and development projects . |
| 29 | It was difficult to tell as , in their search for an individual expression of fashion , they had adopted what virtually amounted to a black uniform . |