Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything . |
2 | I was able to realize this desire agreeably by means of a small scholarly society which I formed with two friends . " |
3 | This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth . |
4 | However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger . |
5 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
6 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
7 | I have one or two such places up my sleeve which I save for difficult days but I do n't spoil it by going to them too often . |
8 | I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river . |
9 | I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides . |
10 | In two years we went from a £32m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £150m , to a £14m loss . |
11 | She will also receive a £2.2 million advance for every film in which she acts plus another Pounds 500,000 for each one she produces . |
12 | This meant she could continue to level her basilisk stare ( the one which she reserves for special enemies ) at selected MPs . |
13 | Her father , however , does not expect she will be belatedly upgraded to gold medal status , which she missed by 0.62 secs , the margin she finished behind Behrendt seven years ago . |
14 | She had a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace . |
15 | Hi Jinks had an awesome range of martial skills which she practiced on small children . |
16 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
17 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
18 | In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years . |
19 | She went into the darkness of that experience , found within herself a healing power which she allied with alternative therapies and is now fully cured . |
20 | In Mrs Parvis 's parlour there were greasy patches on the chairs which she covered with little cloths . |
21 | They provide an intermediate level of reasons to which one appeals in normal cases where a need for a decision arises . |
22 | … having myself graduated in Business over 40 years ago , there seems to be a remarkable cycle in which we return to particular models every few decades . |
23 | THE goal of individual freedom and the value of society , which we advocate as democratic socialists , is a theory of sustained intellectual force . |
24 | The main assumptions of this debate are structured by concepts and social conventions which through the past centuries have helped us to understand reality : keywords of emerging bourgeois society like ‘ individual ’ , ‘ society ’ , ‘ state ’ , ‘ market ’ , ‘ democracy ’ have slightly different connotations in different Western societies and in different periods but — on the whole — form the common language with which we communicate about complex processes and attempt to understand and structure them . |
25 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
26 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
27 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
28 | While we were in Christchurch there was a ‘ Festival of Romance ’ , in which we went to several concerts , exhibitions and lectures , and on the final night the orchestra played a fireworks concert beside the lake in Hagley Park . |
29 | Many of the rhymes and stories which we use with young children include the use of number names . |
30 | ( For example , the electric repulsive force between two electrons is due to the exchange of virtual photons , which can never be directly detected ; but if one electron moves past another , real photons may be given off , which we detect as light waves . ) |