Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
2 | one of the reasons which we lacked last year was er , was a , was a fast , you know , opening bowler . |
3 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
4 | He showed that the mere absence from work or possession of wealth was translated into highly exaggerated forms which he termed conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure . |
5 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
6 | In a fashionable area now known as Brompton Cross ( just a short walk from Harrods , Joseph and The Conran Shop ) , Linda and Neville Codling run Eastern Accents which they founded nine years ago on their return from the Far East . |
7 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
8 | Innocent was beset with problems which he had little chance of solving as the sands constantly shifted and political and economic undercurrents conditioned behaviour . |
9 | Hereforshire Health Authority needs to make savings of six hundred thousand pounds which it overspent this year . |
10 | Before the race he was hoping to beat his personal best time of 2 hours 44 minutes 49 seconds which he set last year . |
11 | COYHAIQUE , Chile ( AFP ) — President Pinochet said he has decided to abolish the secret police which he established 16 years ago , shortly after coming to power . |
12 | Local correspondents were ‘ warning every day that the events which we saw last winter may occur again' . |