Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [Wh det] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around each stall there were usually people talking , and the place which attracted the most conversationalists , after , perhaps , the pavement restaurants , was the donkey-vous . |
| 2 | The mass will be held at a religious shrine on a road where , three years ago , hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in the uprising which toppled the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , and installed Mrs Aquino in power . |
| 3 | That part of the image which had the most resonance both with elderly workers and their employers was that of ‘ retirement impact ’ — that is , of the physical and mental ill effects assumed to be associated with retirement . |
| 4 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 5 | He exposed cells in culture to influenza virus , showed that they were resistant to infection with certain other viruses , and isolated from his cultures a protein which conferred the same resistance on fresh cells . |
| 6 | I ordered a newspaper which held the same viewpoint as my own and we sat , at breakfast , shielded by our own opinions , warily silent . |
| 7 | On appeal , the Court of Appeal upheld the new definition of a disorderly house , upheld the direction to the jury , upheld the property confiscation order but reduced the custodial sentence to six months which is , as it happens , the statutory maximum for running a brothel , a consideration which influenced the same court in R v. |