Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 2 | He remembered the intense heat , the sunlight dancing off sword and dagger points , the roar of battle , the blood which pumped like a thousand fountains as men fell screaming from horrible wounds in head , body or thigh . |
| 3 | LITTLE Jolene Watkins , 11 , was fighting for life last night after being crushed by a runaway car which hurtled into a play- ground . |
| 4 | This came as the climax of a well-balance programme which began with a lithe rendering of Weber 's Oberon Overture , fluent and energetic . |
| 5 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
| 6 | To ensure that its courtship sounds are heard , the male mole cricket builds an amplifier which works in a similar way to the horn of an old gramophone . |
| 7 | This study which builds on a previous study of social class variations in surgical rates , focuses on women suffering from menorrhagia ( heavy bleeding ) — a common indication for hysterectomy . |
| 8 | In the equal-opportunities field observers can analyse the talk which occurs in a mixed class . |
| 9 | This reveals much of the interstructure of the pentagon which conforms to a Fibonacci series . |
| 10 | The trains are prevented from toppling over by another wheel which runs against a vertical concrete track . |
| 11 | The typical finding of a left hemifield superiority in facial recognition is , however , consistent with other findings reviewed in this chapter which point to a relative dominance of the right hemisphere in dealing with non-verbal events in general and visuo-spatial processes in particular . |
| 12 | Soon Babushka fell into a deep sleep only to be woken by a beautiful golden light which came from a far corner of the stable . |
| 13 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 14 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 15 | In the case of a building which consists of a multi-storey part where this has been vertically compartmented from the remainder each part may be considered separately . |
| 16 | A notable feature of the Maya calendar was the era known as the ‘ Long Count ’ , a day-count which began from a conventional starting-point believed to be 10 August 3113 BC according to our calendar . |
| 17 | If you are not travelling by car , then regular buses from the town centre have you there in 15 minutes , stopping at the end of a lane which leads to a good viewpoint . |
| 18 | Miloš and Marasli negotiated a settlement which provided for a Serbian administration , based on a national council of the knezovi of each of the twelve nahijes , who in their own districts would work alongside a Turkish administrator ( müsellim ) . |
| 19 | Each had long hair which flowed in a golden mane down her back ; and despite the difference in age , they were of similar height . |
| 20 | The upshot was a story which appeared in a tabloid newspaper during the World Cup headlined : ‘ Gus : Love on the Dole ’ . |
| 21 | Invented by a new company , Niktron Corporation , Babysave is a soft , waterproof cushion which comes with a battery-operated buzzer box . |
| 22 | Patients with colorectal tumours ( benign and malignant ) and inflammatory bowel disease underwent standard bowel preparation which consisted of a low residue diet for two days and picolax ( nordic pharmaceuticals , feltham , middlesex ) on the day before surgery . |
| 23 | Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20–30 per cent weight loss . |
| 24 | Living room / kitchen has bed settee which makes into a double bed . |
| 25 | A vacuole is surrounded by a thin layer of cytoplasm which acts as a semi-permeable membrane . |
| 26 | In the early years of the euro-dollar market 's growth , the USA incurred an increasing external deficit which led to a considerable accumulation of dollar claims ( deposits ) by non-US residents . |
| 27 | You play against the computer which operates at a chosen skill level so you could have a chance of winning . |
| 28 | It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away , raising its hands to its mouth . |
| 29 | We shall see that since 1 January 1926 the only one of these three forms of co-ownership which exists as a legal estate is joint tenancy ( see p. 87 ) ; but that both coparcenary and tenancy in common exist as equitable estates . |
| 30 | In the old days , local politicians fought one another to obtain the prestige , jobs and money which came with a nuclear power plant . |