Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 2 | The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State . |
| 3 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 4 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 5 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 6 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 7 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 8 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 9 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 10 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 11 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 12 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 13 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 14 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 15 | On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth . |
| 16 | I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July . |
| 17 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 18 | Then a conceptual emotion was released in him which transmuted what he saw into theory , a recognition of the cerebral nature of an art which transported him beyond the mere explanation of the visible . |
| 19 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 20 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 21 | The wherry shot under London Bridge where the water boiled between the closely built arches , the boatmen dipping their oars so the boats could squeeze by the starlings which protected them against the thick stone arches . |
| 22 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 23 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 24 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 25 | Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) . |
| 26 | The exercise helped to dull the urges of his body , which troubled him during the early morning and the day . |
| 27 | Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class . |
| 28 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 29 | Other satellites are in a near-polar orbit which takes them over the Arctic and Antarctic regions . |
| 30 | These dolphins are oceanic travellers , with a migration route Of thousands of kilometres which takes them past the southern coastline of Japan on both legs of their annual migration . |