Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Arcy 's aircraft had nosed cautiously down through the dense , sluggish cloudcover which had kept the lid firmly on the sultry atmosphere of the city for the past week . |
| 2 | Stores in the borough which have defied the law and opened on Sundays are now starting petitions , which will be presented to the council 's environmental health director today . |
| 3 | Another effect of the flare is to wind up the blade speed which helps to give a greater safety margin . |
| 4 | It is not a description that would have satisfied Mr C. G. Heathcote , for example , the Stipendiary Magistrate for Brighton , when asked for his opinions on the question of juvenile crime in 1898 : Mr Heathcote 's remarks are preserved in a report on Juvenile Offenders compiled by the Howard Association which had scouted the opinions of the magistracy and police . |
| 5 | Normally when she had gone well , it had been her horse which had received the praise . |
| 6 | However , it is completely unreasonable to expect a male horse which has learnt the social behaviour of a stallion to completely change its habits , behaviour , and personality because it is castrated . |
| 7 | The strikingly low Rm-value in the Holthusen Z1 borehole might be explained by the ‘ chimney effect ’ of the overlying salt stock which has caused a rapid heat discharge ( Hedemann 1967 ) . |
| 8 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 9 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 10 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 11 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 12 | The fact that this is the case is illustrated by events in recent history , such as devastating forest fires in the USA in 1988 , the virtually annual floods in the Indian subcontinent in the wake of the monsoon rains , and the continuing drought in parts of the African continent which have taken the lives and livelihood of countless people . |
| 13 | Painstakingly , Milton once again explained the reasoning which had led the police conclusively to dismiss the likelihood that terrorists were responsible . |
| 14 | They thereby avoid a circularity of reasoning which has plagued the natural rate-NAIRU literature from its earliest days : if a sustained rise in the unemployment rate is not accompanied by an abatement of inflationary pressure , then this literature can admit of only one explanation — that NAIRU , a concept which has often been conflated with that of the natural unemployment rate , must itself have risen . |
| 15 | The least stable group is a coalition which exists to achieve a specific end . |
| 16 | Only days before , he had maintained his opposition to an elected constituent assembly , and had refused to receive an OAS human rights delegation which wanted to investigate the clash between the police and Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas in the Miguel Castro Castro prison in the capital Lima [ see below ] . |
| 17 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 18 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |
| 19 | Though they can enjoy the advantages of the single market , they do run the risk of losing the inward investment which has favoured the UK so far . |
| 20 | A total of 600 people were arrested and 33 killed in Sind during the first two weeks of an intensive army operation begun in early June , aimed at controlling the wave of rural banditry and urban violence which had swept the province since April . |
| 21 | In response to these attacks , Archbishop Romero refused to attend the inauguration of the new president , General Romero , claiming he had a more important engagement with the people , an adroit reference to the huge fraud and violence which had accompanied the elections . |
| 22 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 23 | In the event , Mountbatten remained as Governor-General of India , in which capacity , at the invitation of the Congress leaders , he was briefly and secretly to resume executive power in 1947 to deal with the communal violence which threatened to destroy the infant state . |
| 24 | The Secretary for Constitutional Affairs , Michael Sze , said yesterday that he hoped Sino-British talks could start soon to end a long-running row over Hong Kong 's future which has shaken the colony . |
| 25 | Their advice was not wholly disinterested , however , since there seems to have been a move in the Conservative Party at this time to replace Baldwin as Party leader by Austen Chamberlain , and so prepare the ground for another Conservative/Liberal Coalition-a reversal , as Cowling puts it , of the verdict of the Carlton Club which had destroyed the Lloyd George Coalition . |
| 26 | International prop PHILIPPE GIMBERT from Beglès-Bordeaux , a club which had acquired an unsavoury reputation even before they won the French Championship , has been fined FF8,000 ( about £850 ) for damages resulting from a punch in a club match against Rodez in December 1990 . |
| 27 | It 's another blow for the club which has had an appalling run of injuries to key players . |
| 28 | The car which had caught the little boy 's eye was a black 6-series BMW saloon — a car which possessed far more style and expensive panache than those which were normally seen around . |
| 29 | In June 1914 , the celebrated dining car which had won the Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 became part of the Royal Train . |
| 30 | The site of the present Transport Offices is here occupied by an old Marton Box car which has collected a cable-drum from the railway siding of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Rigby Road . |