Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From evidence available this week , by which I mean the remarkable feats of sharp reflex and well-practised agility Peter Shilton performed against Poland in a crucial World Cup qualifying tie in Chorzow , England ought not to embark for Italy next summer without first packing trench tools and barbed wire , while giving some serious attention to the laying of mines in their penalty area . |
| 2 | In the slide in which I showed the overall results it appears that about half the patients , the erm marker tumour had been eradicated and in quite a lot of patients there were tumours present . |
| 3 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 4 | Almost all the proprietors of the preserved railways are members of either the Association of Independent Railways or the Association of Railway Preservation Societies , and carried more than 6 million passengers on their railways in 1989 , which is the latest year for which I have the full figures . |
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| 6 | IN THE article ( Echo February 3 ) in which you report the proposed cuts in the Home Help service , Durham County Hall says the cuts are necessary because money is running out . |
| 7 | One of the many advantages in working with miniatures is that you can create an enormous variety of different visual effects according to the way in which you group the finished pictures . |
| 8 | Delete any information which you think the two children would have in common . |
| 9 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 10 | Gwendolen 's first glimpse of Ryelands is also a picture — a ‘ white house … with a hanging wood for a background , and the rising and sinking balustrade of a terrace in front ’ — but this graceful place , despite the warmth and light inside it , is the context in which she faces the chilling implications of ‘ getting her choice ’ . |
| 11 | The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty . |
| 12 | The order in which we put the various parts of England under the local government commission 's microscope will be for the Government to decide . |
| 13 | I remember a gang of us once roamed the streets looking for fag ends from which we shook the remaining bits of tobacco to roll our own . |
| 14 | Then we did a show 1935–55 in which we included the first Americans and quite a few British artists , since they were fairly late going into constructivism . |
| 15 | And we had the pit ponies and where we did n't have the pit ponies drawing the hutches , which we termed the small wagons carrying the coal from the coal face to the pit bottom , then er we had to do it by hand . |
| 16 | Oh for a discipline in which everybody accepts the same facts , more or less , and students could get on with learning an agreed list . |
| 17 | In Scotland they become territorial on an area of estuary mud from which they filter the small invertebrates that make up their diet . |
| 18 | Late in January news bulletins mentioned the Anzio landing in which they knew the Irish Guards were taking part and in February the dreaded news came that Joe had been wounded . |
| 19 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |
| 20 | He measured the rate at which they pecked the different models , and confirmed that the red spot on the tip of the bill acts as a signal to the chick to peck , in order to beg for food . |
| 21 | On Saturday afternoon the RAF Presentation Team , which normally attends one of the Area Conferences each year , gave their presentation to Conference for which they received the grateful thanks and applause of those present . |
| 22 | On the contrary , one of its chief characteristics is to sieve out the workers into grades according to the degree in which they possess the required kinds of ability and alertness . |
| 23 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 24 | With which they entangle the poor spirits of fools . |
| 25 | This supposedly reflects the different contexts in which they learn the linguistic skills — public debates versus private relationships . |
| 26 | As to the functions themselves , they are deprived of their pragmatic identity and cast in a role in which they resemble the grammatical units that they replace . |
| 27 | A further refinement is for government intelligence to use agents to form a special organisation in which they occupy the controlling positions . |
| 28 | West of the Yenisei , the fishing and hunting economy of the Mansin Khanty , Selkup and Ket peoples was largely based upon the use of dugout or plank boats , in which they navigated the numerous rivers , lakes and marshes of the Ob basin . |
| 29 | After his fine defensive effort in the opening game , Speelman 's supporters had high expectations for the second game , in which he had the white pieces , but it all went horribly wrong . |
| 30 | He was exhilarated by working with the legendary director Sir Tyrone Guthrie in the Shakespearean tragedy , in which he had the humble roles of Second Serving man and Second Citizen . |