Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed DCT 's attempt to fly the Mercury nonstop from Dundee to Cape Town , which failed by a relatively short distance , but nevertheless added considerably to the world 's seaplane records and is still the record today . |
| 2 | But it is only fair to record that the lad who won the " best loser 's " medal broke his wrist on hitting me on the head ( watch this space ) as a flyweight ( special gilt one 1/9d ) , which led to a most embarrassing situation . |
| 3 | Opposite the castle were the disused stables , which led into a beautifully romantic but neglected garden . |
| 4 | Lillie Moulton was invited to Fontainebleau in August 1866 on a day of ‘ intolerable heat in a crowded train which made for a highly unpleasant journey ’ . |
| 5 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |
| 6 | When Burma declined to become a member in 1948 — a decision which came as a most unpleasant surprise — comfort was taken in the thought that the voluntary nature of the Commonwealth was thereby confirmed . |
| 7 | As a result , it was also decided to run a wire to each of the firemen 's houses which came within a very small radius of the works , and to put a wire between each night watchman and the central depot . |
| 8 | At the back of his premises he owned a used-car lot which faced on a less fashionable avenue , and here he sold second-hand cars , trucks and motorboats . |
| 9 | On 21 October a Convention summoned to the Tolbooth in Edinburgh accused Mary of Guise of the fundamental failure to take counsel from the nobility of the realm , something which touched on a very sensitive aristocratic nerve , and with reason . |
| 10 | Instead , the Government had supported a daily press in Dar es Salaam , which catered for a relatively small and mainly urban readership . |
| 11 | Lawrence and Lorsch compared the structural characteristics of a ‘ high-performing ’ container firm , which existed in a relatively stable environment , and a ‘ high-performing ’ plastics firm which existed in a rapidly changing environment . |
| 12 | Lawrence and Lorsch compared the structural characteristics of a ‘ high-performing ’ container firm , which existed in a relatively stable environment , and a ‘ high-performing ’ plastics firm which existed in a rapidly changing environment . |
| 13 | Any understanding of the North East has to be grounded in terms of the nature of industrial development and of the class and other social relations which derived from a very particular industrial experience . |
| 14 | Similar quotations were to be found in all the other Christmas and New Year music rags , all of which hinted at an unusually relaxed atmosphere within the band . |
| 15 | Late last year it released version 3 of WinFax Pro , which improved on an already good package . |
| 16 | The saturation resulted in rain , which fell for a very long time . |
| 17 | Most commentators agree that there was a change in ethos in economic policy over the 1960s which resulted in a more interventionist approach [ Beckerman , 1972 ] , and European practice was certainly an influence in bringing it about [ Estrin and Holmes , 1983 ; Hayward and Narkiewicz , 1978 ; Shonfield , 1965 ] . |
| 18 | Once running , no problems — unless they break down , which resulted in a very short first day for us . |
| 19 | However , with the coming of the off-the-peg shroud there was a designer influence coming into force , which resulted in a less voluminous garment with tacked ruching , or gathered pleats , running the length of the garment , with or without applique horizontal bows . |
| 20 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |
| 21 | Aquitaine was then surrounded on all sides ( except the sea coast ) by fiefs which stood in a more immediate relationship to the Capetians than ever before . |
| 22 | The fact that by 1991 the situation had begun to change more generally was due less to Authority initiatives — which remained on a relatively small scale — than to a combination of growing commitment at school level and the legislative requirements in respect of school governing bodies and the provision of information to parents about curriculum and assessment . |
| 23 | The ability of each group to fight alongside the other ( something which depended upon a very disciplined approach ) was undoubtedly one of the main tactical developments of the fourteenth century , and was to play an important part in helping bring about a succession of English victories in battle . |
| 24 | Durkheim opened the floodgates and offered what amounted to a radically new way of making sense of social institutions and their inter-relations . |
| 25 | But in what seemed like a very short period my mother died after a long illness . |
| 26 | Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time . |
| 27 | We had arrived in San Francisco on Monday , after what seemed like an extremely long flight . |
| 28 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |
| 29 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 30 | He had left the comparative safety of the platform of the step-ladder and was now clinging to what felt like a dangerously pliable branch of the tree . |