Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black immigrants form part of this class structure , having jobs which tend to place them at the bottom . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 4 | But skipper Richard Gough is out with a groin injury which has troubled him since the Skol Cup final . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria . |
| 15 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 16 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 17 | His refusal to grant extra funding on the grounds of ‘ basic need ’ at the two schools in his own constituency created a political storm which threatened to deprive him of the Roman Catholic vote in the general election . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Within minutes , the Austrian goalkeeper , Franz Wohlfahrt , was being pelted with missiles , including 5ft iron bars torn from the perimeter fence , one of which appeared to hit him on the back . |
| 22 | Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past . |
| 23 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 24 | that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better . |
| 25 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 26 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 27 | He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate . |
| 28 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 29 | He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music , in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies . |
| 30 | It had been her overwhelming need for money — a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange . |