Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity .
2 Nothing daunted , the committee members set to ; they contacted friends and acquaintances on other islands , they studied ferry time-tables , and planned their campaign with a speed which matched that which had equipped the Law Centre .
3 Riding on the back of a tempestuous wind , this journey became an epic of its time , being accomplished at a speed which remained unequalled until surpassed by an aeroplane more than a century later .
4 Will he take particular note of the excellent report on reading by the Select Committee on Education , Science and Arts which established that reading standards have certainly not fallen and that teachers of reading should be congratulated on the excellent job that they do ?
5 When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that .
6 Many of these are mentioned in chapter 8 ( p. 173 ) but a particularly important viewpoint offered by Strahler in 1956 , provided fundamental guidelines which acknowledged earlier work by engineers , hydrologists , soil scientists and geologists and proceeded to formulate an improved understanding of fluvially produced landscapes .
7 The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said .
8 The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said .
9 Brett parted with Boris Becker after a fruitful association which brought Grand Slam triumphs , including Wimbledon , with the German superstar saying : ‘ Bob needs a new challenge . ’
10 Availability was targeted at 85 per cent , a quantum leap from the 70–75 per cent being achieved at most BR DMU depots up until then , and typical of the radical thinking which accompanied Provincial 's second director , John Edmonds .
11 Corbett stopped , calming his horse which grew skittish at the sight .
12 A client bought from him a large quantity of shares in an infamous CTC stock which went bust .
13 This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise .
14 I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English .
15 Shall I add all that round the side which went all hard ?
16 However , after the war Nick joined Yeovil Town , and was a member of the side which enjoyed such early post-war success in the FA Cup , including the famous victory over Sunderland in January 1949 .
17 Oldham will be unchanged from the side which drew 3-3 against Manchester City as skipper Mike Milligan , who needed three stitches in a mouth wound , has passed himself fit .
18 The man had already endured a normal hip replacement on his other side which needed two follow-up operations .
19 A member of the Hillingdon side which won six successive English League titles between 1980-85 , Tennant , a centre net player , gave up the game after Hillingdon disbanded following their capture of the League title in 1985 .
20 Both were missing from the side which won 4-2 at Colchester United on Friday evening and the Robins ' boss has to decide whether to stick with the makeshift back four which performed so well at Layer Road .
21 Ulster fielded four new caps , but were not overawed by a Saltire side which included six internationalists .
22 For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton .
23 Johnson was the shining star in an excellent Whitecaps side which included former English internationalists Alan Ball and Jon Sammels. his performances put an estimated 6,000 on the team 's home gate ; within a season Johnson had led them to the Soccer Bowl final against Tampa Bay Rowdies .
24 In a side which included three players under 20 , it was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory , with a brilliant goal in a match which saw Hibs offer little resistance .
25 Magilton was missing from the side which lost three-one to Spain in Seville last month .
26 In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots .
27 In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments .
28 One way was to synthesize compounds which had all the useful properties of 6-MP but were not attacked by xanthine oxidase : this was achieved with the synthesis of a substance later named azathioprine .
29 The layout of the farm at Cowdery 's Down changed gradually with the number of buildings increasing in each phase , there being 3 , 6 and 10 in each , always accompanied by two fenced compounds which contained some of the buildings .
30 Remarkably , compounds which showed particular promise as drugs became routinely discussed by number alone , although everyone knew the chemistry behind them .
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