Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The school had a guidance programme which needed to develop a range of activities and contacts with employees , trainers and further education institutions so that students could make career choices in an informed and knowledgeable way . |
| 3 | It was a tragedy for Everton because the concentration which had hallmarked a disciplined defensive performance , lapsed for one fatal moment . |
| 4 | Pérez promised , however , to promote closer co-operation with the DEA which had opened a branch office in the western city of Maracaibo , but maintained a smaller presence there than in neighbouring countries . |
| 5 | The case involved sales of Brazilian groundnut extraction which proved to contain a proportion of poison . |
| 6 | He referred , of course to British Rail which had suffered a drop in investment of £180 million . |
| 7 | Provisions in a contract which purported to give a non-judicial body exclusive power to decide questions affecting the rights of contracting parties would be void as contrary to public policy . |
| 8 | Indeed , since the Domesday Survey of 1086 there had been no government measure which had produced a record of this . |
| 9 | He was pointing at his chest which had gone a bright shade of orange . |
| 10 | There the 12th of July parade had been re-routed to take it away from the ‘ Tunnel ’ , part of the traditional route which had become a Catholic area . |
| 11 | UN officials have said stockpiled food may spoil , and Ms Landgren added that a shell which had damaged a warehouse on Saturday had also ‘ alerted us to the danger of letting stuff pile up . ’ |
| 12 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 13 | The legislature concluded that it was inconvenient for leases for the duration of the war to be void and therefore by the Validation of War-time Leases Act 1944 Parliament provided , by section 1(1) , that any agreement entered into before or after the passing of the Act which purported to grant a tenancy for the duration of the war : |
| 14 | He said that " the political temperature had been pushed unacceptably high " by the ANC campaign which had created a climate making " incidents such as these easier to happen " . |
| 15 | On March 30 , 1990 , the Bundestag approved a gene technology law which aimed to create a legal framework to regulate the area and remove the legal uncertainties that had existed before , including those resulting from the Hoechst case . |
| 16 | His car was hit head-on by another vehicle which swerved to avoid a cow that had strayed onto the bush road . |
| 17 | An alternative view might be that as the court considered whether the GMC had exercised its power in accordance with the Act it was in fact embarking on an exercise which involved making a finding of reasonableness ( or the lack of it ) in a fashion analogous to an application of the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 18 | The jury , also a an international body , then selected twelve semi-finalists , each of whom played a quintet with the Tokyo String Quartet , and a recital which had to include a piece commissioned by the board for the competition , and of which , therefore , there was no standard interpretation . |
| 19 | While Prince Charles must be relieved to be free of a marriage which had become a sham , he , his family and in the end the British Government have met Diana 's terms . |
| 20 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 21 | If there was an exam question which said sketch a graph of , where would the marks be found ? |
| 22 | There was a broken light fitting overhead which seemed to present a good fixture . |
| 23 | Their rejection of the Old Testament set aside the argument from fulfilled prophecy which had played a notable part in his conversion . |
| 24 | The Argentine agreement was thwarted largely by the March 1962 coup which brought to power a right-wing military government which promptly suspended the 1953 trade agreement with the USSR . |
| 25 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 26 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
| 27 | Yards were a typical feature not only of industrial cities but of many a small country town which had to accommodate a rising population . |
| 28 | Hours before the March for Life , dozens of volunteers from Operation Rescue ( a radical anti-abortionist group which had conducted a mass blockade of abortion clinics in 1991 — see p. 38383 ) attempted for the second morning in succession to block access to two abortion clinics in the capital . |
| 29 | However , others point out that at one stage AMV was prepared to offer a lot of money for Scali McCabe Sloves , the international group which had bought a substantial stake in AMV in 1979 and was subsequently taken over by WPP . |
| 30 | Within its ranks , however , Vaclav Klaus , Civic Forum chair since October 1990 [ see p. 37791 ] and Czechoslovak Finance Minister , led a right-wing group which favoured creating a tighter party structure and pushing through rapid free-market economic reforms . |