Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [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 It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original .
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 In other words , the sentence with to asserts drop as a fact and perception is invoked merely as the means which has brought one to the knowledge of this fact : perception took place ; therefore the dropping can be inferred and asserted .
13 Kessler , known for his ingeniously mechanised and electrified constructions , this month ups the ante with a piece called ‘ Music Box ’ which has got something for the ears as well as for the eyes .
14 One unfortunate and totally false legend which has attached itself to the Tilford Bach Festival is the idea that the choir consists of local people .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 It often seems to Christians that the Christianity which has wrapped itself round the person of Jesus has served to obscure rather than communicate its raison d'être .
18 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 .
19 This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved .
20 Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away .
21 Tammuz leaned over Zambia and removed a T-shirt which had hooked itself over the wall-clock in the frenzy of its removal the previous night .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 It had been her overwhelming need for money — a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange .
29 He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance .
30 His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued .
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