Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Bede , Wulfhere reigned seventeen years ( HE 111 , 24 ) , which led him to 675 for Wulfhere 's death , reckoning forward from 658 , but if Wulfhere did not become king until 659 a seventeen-year reign would suggest 676 for his death . |
| 2 | One of the points on the sense-spectrum presented above — and this is typical of the metaphorical variety — has a special status , which manifests itself in two principal ways . |
| 3 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 4 | Explosions of some sort were almost unavoidable if the principle of nationality was to be extended beyond the states which embodied it in 1880 . |
| 5 | Britain has only 3,000 bottle banks , that is one for every 17,000 people , compared to Holland , for example , which has one per 1,400 people . |
| 6 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 7 | Among the many on the list are the blinding disease Onchocerciasis , or river blindness , caused by a parasitic worm ; the debilitating schistosomiasis , also caused by a worm ; the killer malaria caused by a protonoan and of course diarrhoea , mainly caused by bacteria , which kills something like 20 000 children every day . |
| 8 | Such then was the equipment and the ethos with which the Brewery faced the 50 years of violent growth which lifted it by 1914 to first place in the world league . |
| 9 | Sections on Calligraphy , Illustration , Typography and Book Design make way for a commercial break which introduces us to 28 first editions of Penguin paperbacks . |
| 10 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 11 | Once drained , which takes anything from four to eight hours , the cheese can be eaten immediately , with or without the addition of fresh cream ; or it can be left draining until it is all but dry , when it can be kept for cooking , or salted and flavoured for consumption as a mild cheese . |
| 12 | The Nigerian Curriculum Conference and the National Workshop on Primary Education which followed it in 1971 are important for a number of reasons : |
| 13 | They are subject to a work permit system which ties them to one job and makes them dependent on their employers ' goodwill to continue their stay in Britain . |
| 14 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 15 | The Shadow Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , pointed out that over 500,000 Scots work for local and central government which meant one in four Scottish jobs could be threatened by a severe public expenditure clampdown . |
| 16 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 17 | The USC had on April 18 repulsed an offensive by Siyad Barre 's Somali National Front ( SNF ) which brought it within 30 km of Mogadishu , and had then pursued Siyad Barre and 1,200 of his supporters to the Kenyan border . |
| 18 | Its success led at once to his appointment as editor of the fifth edition of Grove 's Dictionary of Music and Musicians , a task which occupied him until 1954 . |
| 19 | They belong to the British Museum , which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin , as every schoolboy knows . |
| 20 | The first and possibly the widest of these is its use to indicate feelings of pleasure and happiness , of general well-being and even of personal security , which comes from an association between two or more of earth 's creatures , and which attracts them to one another . |
| 21 | There was a quiet wistfulness about her , a reticence , a grace which reminded him of one of Leonardo 's Madonnas . |
| 22 | The winners were the Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) which increased its representation from 126 to 247 and the centre-right Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) which increased its from 131 to 213 . |
| 23 | We then went to assembly which lasted anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes , we would then go into our classrooms and do whatever we were told . |
| 24 | Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well . |
| 25 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 26 | I had a real ambition to ride round Badminton , but had a terrible fall which left me with two broken legs before I could do that . |
| 27 | The first is the world economic situation , which hits him in two ways . |
| 28 | You 've got four plus numbers , you got two minus numbers which leaves you with two plus numbers . |
| 29 | In his key work on this subject ( 1977 ) , Bourdieu begins with a critical account of that anthropological structuralism which provides him with one of his main methodological tools . |
| 30 | Which brings us to one vital and final point on the matter of taking our fauna aloft and then casting them off to the winds not knowing exactly where they are going to land . |