Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had full view of the stage and of the three female impersonators , kicking up their legs in a dance , the rhythm of which had gone a little awry . |
| 2 | Kim , who had transformed Daewoo from a small textile-exporting company into the country 's fourth-largest conglomerate , was renowned as an entrepreneur and was known to have had a huge amount of personal wealth with which to have supported a presidential campaign . |
| 3 | Its demolition in 1962 , still the most wanton act of vandalic savagery in what has become a century of architectural barbarism , signalled conclusively the end of the age of giants and the arrival of the age of pygmies . |
| 4 | Smith 's critique goes further because he also argues that , economically , military expenditure is a poor tool with which to attempt to stabilise a capitalist economy . |
| 5 | Making Britain a brighter and better place in which to live requires a high quality physical environment — including housing , transport and reinvigorated urban areas . |
| 6 | It would have been a sensible place in which to have encountered a loving creator , but it was a wretched spot for a pale and spindly child to fall victim to the predatory hunger of an Italian prisoner of war with a tobacco tin filled with metal rings made in the camp workshop three miles away across the woods . |
| 7 | Norwich-Birmingham had already been tried , with locomotive-hauled stock , but putting together the services which previously had separately linked Liverpool , Warrington Central , Manchester ; Blackpool and Manchester ; Sheffield via the Hope Valley line ; Nottingham , Grantham , Peterborough , Ely and Ipswich/Norwich and Harwich Parkeston Quay , was a bold move from which has developed a popular route on which much new business is emerging . |
| 8 | Jacko ( John Mills ) , Kathie 's father , and a committed trade unionist , is asked to give his opinion on what has become a contentious issue within the factory . |
| 9 | Trust supporters have recently been invited to consider applying for a Midland Bank/National Trust credit card ( see page 9 ) , the income from which has benefited a wide range of projects . |
| 10 | Byrne , the Republic of Ireland striker who considered retiring from the game less than two years ago because his career had stagnated in France , maintained his record of scoring in every round of what has become a romantic Wearside success story . |
| 11 | The opening of Aspects of Love , on April 12 at the Prince of Wales theatre , will furnish a mere footnote in what has become a success story of remarkable almost tedious consistency . |
| 12 | He has provided the only real glitz and glamour in what has seemed a decidedly lacklustre campaign . |
| 13 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |