Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendall has doggedly maintained that , despite Everton 's dreadful run which has dragged them towards the bottom of the Premier League , there is nothing intrinsically wrong with his side . |
| 2 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 3 | But skipper Richard Gough is out with a groin injury which has troubled him since the Skol Cup final . |
| 4 | She does n't do anything special to look after the distinctive voice which has kept her in the music business for an astonishing 33 years . |
| 5 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 6 | The tragic feature of deaf education , which has bedeviled it from the beginning , is the disagreement among educators about the best method of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 7 | The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle . |
| 8 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
| 9 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 10 | That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’ |
| 11 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 12 | ‘ However , in the economic revolution which has overtaken them with the collapse of the Soviet Union I can see problems looming for them in future . |
| 13 | Their vestigial hands grope around them as their blind , closed-eyed faces press forwards against a thin film of ectoplasm which seems to shield them from the outside . |
| 14 | It is certainly helped by the fact that the spadefoot toad 's eggs are black , covered by a pigment called melanin which helps protect them from the sun 's rays ( the same pigment is responsible for tanning in human beings ) . |
| 15 | Many believe that playing standards will improve only when more young players are attracted to rugby , which means getting them into the clubs at youth level . |
| 16 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 17 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 18 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 19 | ‘ But that 's not what 's brought me to the crossroads . ’ |