Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , Fearnley was under continuous threat from the two or three agencies which operated on an international basis , and especially from the most powerful , Mike Martinez . |
| 2 | All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding . |
| 3 | As well as the fruit there was a tray with cups and flasks of wine and k'miss , and a plate of savoury pastries filled with p'tar meat which steamed with an appetising aroma . |
| 4 | According to Index on Censorship , lawyers claimed that there had been ‘ insufficient evidence ’ and that the outcome of the trial had been influenced by ‘ external pressures ’ which amounted to an international campaign against ranchers in the Amazon ( see pages 18–19 ) . |
| 5 | Mr Scott , who runs Elegant Homes from an office in Whessoe Road , Darlington , is being sued for £68,000 by Stockton-based CPH Mechanical Services , which crashed with an estimated deficiency of £162,000 . |
| 6 | From the mid-1970s ( the punk moment ) to 1984 the dominant sensibility was a pop sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on an avant-garde critique of mass culture ; this was the account developed by Paul Morley and the other theorists of the ‘ new pop ’ . |
| 7 | Balfour 's government introduced an Education Act which provided for an orderly scheme for elementary and secondary education in schools administered by Local Authorities . |
| 8 | The meeting was prompted by a draft secretarial order , issued by the US Interior Department in July , which provided for an expanded role for the new resident US representative in Belau [ see p. 37885 ] . |
| 9 | In 1978 a new constitution was promulgated which provided for an elaborate reversion to a tribal mode of rule involving an electoral college of eighty members chosen by forty local councils ( ‘ tinkhundla ’ ) , dominated by tribal elements . |
| 10 | The instructions with this recipe which came from an old horseman 's notebook were : Set this mixture by the wind ; that is , the horseman was advised to stand in the wind so that as soon as the colt or horse scented him he would advance towards him . |
| 11 | I understand that it recently hosted a show by the Chippendales , not a branch of the ’ Antiques Roadshow ’ but an American male strip show which played to an all-female audience . |
| 12 | The system can be described as a set of cascaded ATN networks which communicated via an ordered agenda . |
| 13 | No one moving , not a man nor a woman , not a car or a motor bike , not even a dog barking under the sickle moon which shone in an opalescent sky surrounded by a diadem of stars . |
| 14 | There was also a smaller walled town two miles to the north called Gausennae at what is now Great Casterton , which acted as an extra garrison . |
| 15 | On Feb. 9 , 1990 , the NSF Council was replaced by an all-party provisional Council of National Unity , which served as an interim parliament until the general and presidential elections on May 20 . |
| 16 | It consisted of a bedroom with en suite bathroom , balcony , small sitting-room with breakfast bar , compact kitchen in pickled pine , and a large square terrace which served as an outdoor dining area , complete with round marble table and four chairs . |
| 17 | Acid phosphatase was also expressed apically on the epithelium , which served as an inherent control . |
| 18 | Leconfield is the home of the Army School of Mechanical Transport , occupying Normandy Barracks , formerly the RAF station commissioned in 1936 , which served in an operational capacity during the Second World War . |
| 19 | By James 's landing in mid-March the Protestants had been forced to abandon most of their strongholds and soon after his arrival they gave up Dungannon , 35 miles [ 56 km ] west of Belfast , and Coleraine , a seaport on the north coast , which succumbed to an Irish force under a French commander . |
| 20 | Most branches of the ROK government were now cooperating with ECA ; the exceptions were the defence and police authorities , which spent on an extravagant scale . |
| 21 | Communist influence in the ILP began to increase rapidly , largely owing to the work of the Revolutionary Policy Committee which began as an independent minority working within the ILP but eventually merged into the Communist Party . |
| 22 | The reliquary was held by Capricorn in a secure vault at an address in St John 's Wood , north London , which belonged to an associate company of Capricorn . |
| 23 | If an SSR responds to an SPR which originated from an external client , then it is the responsibility of the LIFESPAN user who submitted the SPR in LIFESPAN to arrange for a copy of the SSR to be sent to the client . |
| 24 | If an SSR responds to an SPR which originated from an external client , then it is the responsibility of the user who submitted the SPR in LIFESPAN to arrange for a copy of the SSR to be sent to the client . |
| 25 | The one who had accompanied him chasing the car simply glowered in the direction it had gone , while the other one , who had n't fired a shot , writhed by the roadside , trying to clutch a leg which trailed at an unnatural angle . |
| 26 | The " decision " followed Bush 's initiative , unveiled at the UN General Assembly in September ( for Bush and Shevardnadze speeches see pp. 36906-07 ) and which was at variance with the existing chemical weapons treaty draft , which called for an immediate halt to production . |
| 27 | Following the deployment , the Lebanese government made it clear that its next step would be to place diplomatic pressure on the United States to persuade Israel to allow Lebanese army deployment in Jezzin , as a first step towards compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 425 , which called for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon . |
| 28 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 29 | The Alliance was indissolubly linked to local ratepayers ' organisations — most notably the Forest Gate Ratepayers ' Association ( FGRA ) — which functioned as an effective lobby for those who felt most threatened by rate increases , namely , the manufacturers and petit bourgeoisie . |
| 30 | She dived into a pile of newspapers which lay in an untidy stack beneath her chair and after a short search , triumphantly produced a neatly folded paper which she handed to Edwards . |