Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah and it 's got a bucket which goes like this do n't it ? |
| 2 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 3 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 4 | For my next example I will go back to Sri Lanka for a case which exhibits with particular clarity the general principle that equality of status calls for direct equivalence in reciprocal behaviour . |
| 5 | Linked with a curriculum which centres upon practical enquiry , is the need to develop in children appropriate methods of presenting ideas . |
| 6 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 7 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
| 8 | The band finished with a glorious flourish in Scottish Heart , a mini-suite which opens with chromatic evocations of folk and pipe tunes , and ends in a furious , high-energy jazz whirl , with scintillating solos from Kellock and guitarist Kevin MacKenzie . |
| 9 | Some limited progress has been made relatively recently in linking up the analysis of corporate strategy and some of the behavioural insights of strategy formulation and implementation ( see Quinn , Mintzberg and James , 1988 , for a text which refers to many of these ideas but which presents little in the way of synthesis ) , but not much has yet been done to tie that in with financial management . |
| 10 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 11 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 12 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 13 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 14 | Chicago had been founded by John MacKenzie , a Canadian who lived from 1763–1823 . |
| 15 | If you go up and want a T-shirt you go to that pile . |
| 16 | A description which deals with actual tokens of language use reveals the relative frequency of forms and their habitual co-occurrence in different contexts . |
| 17 | A description which deals with abstract types will present linguistic forms and their meanings as constituents of the conventional code . |
| 18 | So a drug which acted during this phase , a ‘ true causal prophylactic ’ , was exactly what was wanted , but how was it to be found ? |
| 19 | For example , Katy Simmonds of the Oxford Polytechnic has described a technique she used with 12-year-old children with specific reading difficulties . |
| 20 | This village dynasty was founded by Alan Chaloner , a blacksmith who married in 1552 and died in 1601 , leaving seven children alive . |
| 21 | For Alan this has been the culmination of a story which began in 1981 when he bought an old 1965 Sunbeam Tiger and spent eight years rebuilding it — a labour of love . |
| 22 | From Lincoln days descended a story which sounds like Ramsey-legend but the truth of which he confirmed . |
| 23 | A story which focuses on those aspects of ‘ family ’ , which family photography has deselected , but transforms the ordinary things every mother has seen — a wet bed ( as above ) , a bloody nose ( ‘ Emmett 's Bloody Nose ’ 1985 ) , candy cigarettes ( ‘ Candy Cigarette ’ 1989 ) into a technically and philosophically complex narrative . |
| 24 | A story which appeared in last week 's Electronics Weekly , saying the company was considering another RISC was placed with that publication , CDC admits , ‘ to put the wind up Silicon Graphics and MIPS . ’ |
| 25 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 26 | MY KING is a pepperpot which falls over each time the train brakes . |
| 27 | Each has a ‘ magic hand ’ , a manipulator which swings from vertical , for fishing tapes out of stacks , to horizontal , for slotting them into players . |
| 28 | Another , Tosti , although absent from contemporary documentary sources , appears on a Swedish rune stone as having secured tribute for his followers , while Florence of Worcester , writing c.1100 , says that a force which appeared in 1009 was led by Thorkell , and was almost immediately joined by a second group under Hemming and Eglaf . |
| 29 | Fewer than 5% of those who consulted a doctor were referred to a nurse or incontinence clinic , a figure which accords with that of Briggs and Williams , who found 42 of 101 general practitioners surveyed never used the service of a continence adviser for older patients although the service was available to them . |
| 30 | And I believe er , at this meeting it was revealed that Scottish Homes had received a tender from the West Lothian District Council for this work over a period of ten years for a figure which comes to four hundred thousand pound which , apparently , was the cheapest tender ! |