Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv prt] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They showed that each class normally appeared first in a very generalized form , from which radiated out a number of lines of development each leading towards a specialized modification of the class for a particular way of life . |
| 2 | Physics , I was often told , was a ‘ general degree ’ , one which opened up a range of possibilities ; it was also , many students said , ‘ one of the best degrees you can get ’ . |
| 3 | It was a point which opened up a line of argument opposing the ‘ true ’ national interest of abolition to the false claims of the traders of national necessity for what they were doing . |
| 4 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 5 | There was the debilitating link between Neath and Wales which carted off a team-load of Neath players to the Welsh squad and left them psychologically impaired ; when Wales stumbled , they tumbled from bad to worse . |
| 6 | She was half of the dreadlock duo , Haysi Fantayzee , which notched up a couple of Top Twenty hits in the early Eighties : ‘ John Wayne is Big Leggy ’ and ‘ Shinny Shinny ’ . |
| 7 | Wallich based his refutation mainly on a Bulldog sounding , at a depth of some 2,300 metres , which brought up a number of brittle-stars entangled in the line . |
| 8 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 9 | The new government , which brought in a number of technocrats to take over key economic portfolios , did not , however , include any members of the opposition or resistance movements . |
| 10 | A founder of the St Clares Ladies Choir which performed over a period of years , she also found time to become a devoted and regular pilgrim to Lourdes , where her lovely voice became well known to those in the Torchlight Processions . |
| 11 | By yesterday evening the largest lender , the Halifax , which held out a glimmer of hope earlier in the day that it could stick with its 13.5 per cent rate , acknowleged a rise was inevitable . |