Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The county council has since planted trees on that piece of land which has stopped gipsies from camping there but led to them using the verge instead . |
| 2 | Take , for instance , the brouhaha which has followed Mrs Thatcher 's hint that she will probably retire sometime between the next general election and the one after that . |
| 3 | Little Graham Harrison has a rare skin condition which has baffled doctors and makes life a constant struggle for him and his parents . |
| 4 | In the case of the Stommeln Synagogue , located in Pulheim-Stommeln in the extreme west of Cologne , an unusual exhibition venue has been created which has excited attention with its sensitive presentation of single works by Jannis Kounellis and Richard Serra . |
| 5 | It is this quality which has moved writers to describe her work as mythic : she speaks for us all through an interpretation of her personal experience that makes use of the universal image of the naked human body . |
| 6 | The German mining company Uranerz operates the Key Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan , believed to be the world 's largest , which has provoked expressions of concern from local Dene and Cree people , who fear possible radioactive contamination of their land . |
| 7 | He suggests that the new forests are the " missing carbon sink " which has puzzled scientists for some years . |
| 8 | Jazz here is ‘ about fidelity , about the sole real art there is , about what one must be true to , come hell or high water ; what must be done to the point of collapse ( Škvorecký 1980 : 8 , 20 ) ; and in Škvoreck ý's; own Czechoslovakia , the persecution in the mid-1980s of the ‘ Jazz Section ’ — which has supported rock and punk as well as jazz — confirms the subversive potency and ‘ alternative ’ status , still , of this music . |
| 9 | True zealots , for example , can join the Russian National Legion , a paramilitary organisation , which has sent mercenaries to fight in Moldova and Bosnia . |
| 10 | As several writers have noted , the recent preoccupation in the managerial literature with social power has led to the neglect of structural power which determines so much of our behaviour at work and which has interested sociologists for more than 100 years . |
| 11 | We know all about that , ’ said Mr Heath , referring to the headquarters of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre , which has collected evidence of Nazi war criminals . |
| 12 | Austin , Texas-based , Tivoli Systems Inc has appointed Chris Grafft as vice president of Unix development : the distributed management software company , which has collected $6m in venture money so far , is thinking of going out for a ‘ few million ’ more in a third round . |
| 13 | In the north of Bucharest , there is a fascinating village-museum , started in the 1930s , which has collected examples of the extraordinary variety of styles of peasant architecture found in Romania . |
| 14 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 15 | Such acts come as no surprise from a Government which has implemented measure after measure in a similar vein since 1979 . |
| 16 | The concept of mixed race , which has become part of conventional social work language , is misleading because it causes confusion in the minds of transracial adopters . |
| 17 | To meet such objections Ross developed a very useful concept which has become part of the regular stock in trade of moral philosophers , the concept of a prima facie duty . |
| 18 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 19 | It points to truth which has become wisdom born of experience : This is Rolle 's version of 1 Corinthians 13:2 : And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries , and all knowledge , and if I should have all faith , so that I could remove mountains , and have not charity , I am nothing . |
| 20 | A magnolia which has become world renowned and is given pride of place at Lanhydrock is M. ‘ Albatross ’ ( cylindrica × veitchii ) . |
| 21 | First , however , we consider briefly what may happen further upstream , partly to illustrate how the long memory comes about and partly to make a link with earlier discussions of wakes ; i.e. we look at the ‘ intermediate wake ’ , ( intermediate to the ‘ near wake ’ immediately behind the obstacle and the ‘ far wake ’ which has become self-preserving ) . |
| 22 | God Akhenaten was his prophet and in fact claimed to be the son of God his son and er all other religions were persecuted and er , so what in Ancient Egypt was that the traditional polytheism which was rampant was persecuted by there was only one god and as Andrea says , even proscribe the word gods in , in the plural , you know the , you know the er feminist thought police would try and rule out certain words you 're not allowed to use like chairman which has become chairperson or something like that |
| 23 | The productivity of Buenos Aires-1 , which had been drilled , tested and suspended , was reduced dramatically once it had been completed and put on production — a fact which has challenged production teams . |
| 24 | The response was to start an unbeaten run of 19 games which has swept Wigan to the verge of a third consecutive double or , as John Monie , their coach , put it , ‘ halfway towards another successful season ’ . |
| 25 | The striking apple green Gresley designed A3 Pacific loco sees its boiler ticket expire in the autumn after a hugely successful seven years which has reinstated steam — as a regular site on national metals . |
| 26 | ( Note that " recreolisation " can also mean the development of a new Creole language from an existing one which has undergone pidginisation for a second time . |
| 27 | The painting , which has undergone restoration lasting three years without being moved from its place in the Salle des Fëtes housing Italian Renaissance works , was ripped in five places on 3 June , although the Louvre kept the information secret for a fortnight . |
| 28 | [ The major recommendations of the Dunning Committee were accepted , and embodied in the Standard grade examination system , which has replaced O grades in Scotland ( see Chapter 9 ) . ] |
| 29 | Thanks to Inheritance Tax which has replaced capital transfer tax , lifetime gifts ( in contrast to money left in a will ) will normally escape the taxman . |
| 30 | The ‘ eternal commentary ’ or ‘ double ’ is absorbed in a one-way continuous-feed process which has replaced dialogue . |