Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 19-year-old girl was injured by the stolen car which hurtled up an alley and rebounded off a wall before hitting her and another wall . |
| 2 | After meeting pupils of Maghull High School , Mr Hunt was introduced to Merseyside Tec 's Future programme which sets out a career and training plan for clients . |
| 3 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 4 | Michael Smith was driving the quad bike which ran down a hunt saboteur . |
| 5 | He drove along the road for two or three miles , then turned off on to a stone-walled lane which led up a forested hillside . |
| 6 | A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits . |
| 7 | Ballantyne scored a try which cancelled out a strike by Mike Debusk then sent in Keith Johnston for a second . |
| 8 | The government has published a discussion document on climate change which sets out a series of options on how emissions of greenhouse gases can be reduced . |
| 9 | These include a macro lens at the touch of a button — great for capturing details of flowers — and a fully automatic built in flash which gives out a pre-flash emission to minimise ‘ red eye ’ . |
| 10 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 11 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 12 | The bed itself had an old , lumpy mattress which gave off a faint odour of damp or rotting fabric — or perhaps it was the lingering smell of sheep . |
| 13 | The motor cyclist sped off away from Walberswick , was soon a speck which vanished round a bend . |
| 14 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
| 15 | And tomorrow night we look at the work which takes up a third of the RSPCA 's time , dealing with farmers and their livestock . |
| 16 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 17 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 18 | It is our reasons for asserting a dependent conditional which bring in a good deal more than what is brought in by the conditional itself . |
| 19 | Between their house and ours were the double doors of the cellar , having a three inch steel bar which fitted over a staple and was fastened by an enormous padlock . |
| 20 | And she keyed the proffered information into a machine which spat out a plastic ‘ membership ’ card bearing my name , rank and serial number . |
| 21 | The event came to a close with a disco which rounded off an absolutely brilliant day that was a very moving and thought-provoking for all concerned . |
| 22 | In the corner of the church was a visiting group of Guides whose camp was nearby , and on the knees of one Guider was an infant which kept up a constant ( and unchecked by her ) chatter throughout the readings and prayers . |
| 23 | Joyce Grenfell was right , as ever , when she said there is no giving without receiving , that they are both part of the same circle which makes up a whole spiritual act . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This was a process which extended over a long period , and in the seventeenth century the extent of their privileges in this respect was still far from clear . |
| 26 | The government described the small war which broke out a year later ( 2–14 July 1977 ) as an unprovoked Egyptian attack . |
| 27 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
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| 29 | Like the bomb which blew up a national airline flight last week , killing all 107 aboard , the bombing came in the shadow of a struggle between President Virgilio Barco and the lower house of congress to overturn emergency extradition procedures decreed by Mr Barco against traffickers wanted for trial in the US . |
| 30 | The main classes of vessel which made up a fleet were first-class armoured ships ( which were to hand out and absorb the punishment of a pitched battle ) , other ironclads used for cruising , coast-defence and the many functions of the old sail frigates , and the ‘ flotilla ’ of smaller ships , of which the commonest were gunboats and the newest , torpedo-boats . |