Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] with [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was held that an offence under that section had been committed where the accumulation emitted offensive odours which interfered with the personal comfort of persons living in the neighbourhood , but did not cause injury to health . |
| 2 | The provision of permanent waters led everywhere to overgrazing and consequent soil erosion , and veterinary quarantine regulations which interfered with the free movement of cattle both within and into and out of the reserves almost certainly contributed to the spread of tsetse fly which occurred during the colonial period . |
| 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 | At the conference a successful effort had been made to invite informed opinion not only from the educational community but from many interest groups within Nigeria , an initiative which met with a splendid response and which led , with the help of some skilful chairmanship and competent editing to the production of a useful and sensible working document . |
| 5 | I am aware he has met on a number of occasions with our members , and he was instrumental in selecting a team , which met with the General Secretary of USDAW who said that they had had a er a er reasonable meeting with him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was mainly the two women 's voices , cascading with emotions which erupted with a startling suddenness and burst explosively into the surface of life . |
| 8 | In the old days , local politicians fought one another to obtain the prestige , jobs and money which came with a nuclear power plant . |
| 9 | Johnson believed good humour an acquired quality , one which came with the ageing process , and came of learning to please others rather than the child 's instant gratification of pleasing itself . |
| 10 | They all agree that it was a huge creature , which shone with a strange light like a ghost . |
| 11 | Mr Berkley hurried through the early Sunday-morning streets , empty but for Catholics , car-cleaners and cats , wincing under the glare of the sun which shone with a brutal cheerfulness into his eyes . |
| 12 | He pulled on the refrigerator door , which opened with a slight squeak , and crouched down behind it to assess the produce on the brightly-lit shelves . |
| 13 | The stewards sent a shock wave through leading teams by admitting that the F1 Technical Delegate had found every team except Lola were using cars which conflicted with the technical regulations particularly in relation to active suspension and traction control . |
| 14 | In a period of cultural stability , the infantile , irrational demands of the superego which conflicted with the mature superego could be worked out in the analytic process . |
| 15 | Renumbered 761 , the car entered service in July , fitted with a new control system which dispensed with the traditional controller , and was operated by a simple joy-stick for acceleration and braking . |
| 16 | Most of the inhabitants of the block were walking their last circuits before being locked in , and there was an absence of noise which merged with the deepening gloom . |
| 17 | It led to impossibly puritan attitudes , a crusade against the enjoyments of the artisan , onslaughts on the bullfight , not because it was cruel , but because it wasted working time ; it supported an attack on charity as an anti-social habit , which merged with the bleak belief of later liberals in the virtues of competition . |
| 18 | The Christian Broadcaster was the journal of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting , which merged with the Coordinating Committee on Christian Broadcasting in 1968 to form WACC . |
| 19 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |
| 20 | This came as the climax of a well-balance programme which began with a lithe rendering of Weber 's Oberon Overture , fluent and energetic . |
| 21 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |
| 22 | Talks are also being held with various US corporations , including Ault Foods , as part of the export drive which began with a two-week fact finding mission to the US organised by Strathclyde Business Development . |
| 23 | Expo '92 is scheduled to exceed all records for events of this kind , which began with the great exhibition in London in 1851 . |
| 24 | The crisis within the Community which began with the abortive Fouchet Plan deepened with de Gaulle 's veto of British membership in 1963 . |
| 25 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 26 | Last week the Wagner Development Group put to rest that work which began with the 1988 Wagner report with the fourth and last conference jointly organised by NISW and Community Care ( News , page 4 ) , and the coincidental publication of the third Wagner volume Positive Answers ( HMSO , £6.50 ) . |
| 27 | Afternoon at their Spitalfields home , which began with the obligatory tea ceremony , stretches into evening . |
| 28 | Like a shark , she 'd have to keep moving to survive … and some shark , Lucy thought as she shouldered her way through into some windowless corridor which echoed with the tinny sounds of the show playback , coming through on a cheap relay speaker . |
| 29 | Moreover , the variations of phase as Venus moved around its orbit were not in accord with the Ptolemaic model of the Solar System which originated with the Greek astronomer Ptolemy ( ca. 100-ca. 170 ) a refined version of which was widely accepted in Galileo 's time . |
| 30 | There were renewed protests in late May which coincided with a 10-day commemoration of the anniversary of the 1980 Kwangju uprising , a pro-democracy rebellion which had been brutally suppressed with the killing of up to 2,000 civilians . |