Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them . |
2 | So the world is one nation which has branched into lesser nations . |
3 | Metal Office Equipment Limited , which has operated from rented premises for about ten years , is looking to develop land at Chiswick Avenue , Mildenhall . |
4 | Mr Ayob added : ‘ Mrs Mandela appeals to the media not to concern itself with , nor speculate about , her personal relationship with her husband which has endured despite 27 years of imprisonment and many years of exile . ’ |
5 | But I believe from the written evidence that there is equally no dispute that the boundary which has existed for ten years , the tight boundary , is also capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary if indeed there is to be an inset . |
6 | The National Retreat Movement which has existed for 30 years to promote spirituality and retreats of all kinds within the Catholic community of England , Wales and Scotland , has the information available . |
7 | Bergman 's ( 1979 ) comments on Sweden indicate that it is also a belief which has appeared in other countries . |
8 | In a recent editorial , the Communist daily Trybuna Ludu alluded to this problem , when it warned that ‘ many comrades do n't see the danger which has appeared in recent months ’ . |
9 | They stressed the principle of continuity lying behind the order in the universe which has developed through second causes ; and they were sympathetic to Darwin . |
10 | The poor physical conditions under which many teachers have to work may be difficult enough , but their problems are compounded by the gulf which has developed in many schools between teachers and pupils , and the low regard in which teachers are held . |
11 | The Midland , which has suffered from financial troubles , hopes to attract green consumers to the fund which will invest in companies which specialise in the monitoring and implementation of pollution control . |
12 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
13 | The inhabitants of the village … are annoyed and their property and persons endangered by a practice which has prevailed of late years of great numbers of persons resorting from Brighton to Patcham under pretence of a holiday on palm Sunday filling the Ale Houses and Beer Shop , getting intoxicated , becoming riotous and creating disturbances in the village street . |
14 | We are aware of the practice which has prevailed in certain cases , of allowing , as costs between party and party , so much per day for the attendance of professional men , but that practice can not alter the law . |
15 | The reality which has emerged in recent years is that those on Bank Assistant Grade in Bank of Ireland are the lowest paid , full-time career Bank Officials in the country . |
16 | If half the funds and the intellectual effort which has gone towards developing strategies for finding alternative families had been put into what we can only lamely call preventative work there would be unquestionable advantage to all concerned . |
17 | New Pegasus 109 Green Lanes , N16 ( 226 5930 ) Pub which has gone through several incarnations , most recently known as Chas'n'Dave 's . |
18 | These improvements follow the £75 million investment in the Chiltern line , which has gone into new trains , new stations , new facilities , all of which has meant a great improvement for all the commuters on that line ; those on the Thames line will benefit similarly . |
19 | This is partly because of the difficulty in deciding where boundaries should be drawn , a difficulty which has increased in recent years with the development of new organizational forms ( such as ‘ hived-off ’ agencies ) and with the increasing interpenetration of the public and private sectors . |
20 | Part of the impetus has come from the intrinsic interest of the mathematics itself , which has led to major advances in such fields as algebra , analysis , number theory , geometry and topology . |
21 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
22 | It is the delay which has led to growing fears that the leukaemia unit will never match the fund raisers ’ hopes . |
23 | The quality of groundwater can be affected by farming practices such as intensive agriculture , which has led to widespread increases in nitrate concentrations in groundwater . |
24 | This can affect people 's willingness to report certain crimes , which has contributed to recent increases in the official statistics for racial attacks , domestic violence , and child abuse . |
25 | One unexpected characteristic has been an innate shyness which has recurred in several generations . |
26 | As more and more is understood of the way in which interactions between the child and the environment create privileged opportunities for language learning , so it may be possible to reduce the burden of explanation which has fallen on innate factors . |
27 | The industry which has flourished since Classical times at Torre del Greco south of Naples has developed such expertise that even corals of Japanese origin are imported there for fabrication . |
28 | I use the word beautiful knowing it to be inaccurate , yet not knowing how else to counteract the myth which has circulated for two centuries that Frankenstein 's monster 's face was a hideous conglomeration of second-hand features . |
29 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
30 | Care has not been so tender for the eiderdown duck , which has perished in large numbers due to oil slicks in its Iceland habitat , as European demand for its fluffy down , mainly used in bedding , increases . |