Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Wilson recalled , his first experience of the courts occurred in April 1889 when he was fined five pounds and costs at Sunderland for having attempted to persuade two seamen to desert from the ss Edmonsley , an incident which Fairplay reported with glee . |
| 2 | It was all a spoof , but taken for real by many viewers , particularly when cameramen collapsed and scratches mysteriously appeared on a girl 's face which became covered in blood and distorted . |
| 3 | It is certainly true that the most active social science departments gave rise to the approach to social science which became associated with participant observation , the more extensive use of the survey method as a means to examine attitudes and personality and , last but not least , the modern sociological use of the survey as a tool for the development of theory as in variable analysis . |
| 4 | There was Florey 's original material , which became known as Penicillin-I or Penicillin-F ( for Florey ) ; Penicillin-II or Penicillin-G ( because G came after F ) from the Squibb Laboratories ; Penicillin-III or Penicillin-X from the laboratories at Peoria ; and Penicillin-IV or Penicillin-K from the Abbot Laboratories . |
| 5 | Mackay had no love for the Jacobite cause and in spite of his defeat at the Battle of Killiecrankie , he was given the task of subduing the Highlands , where he built the fort at the head of Loch Linnhe which became known as Fort William . |
| 6 | The main national network , which became known as Idhaa ya Kiswahili ( ‘ The Swahili Service ’ ) , had as one of its main aims ‘ informing and educating public opinion ’ . |
| 7 | The sidings , which became known as Thornton Gate , opened with the arrival of the first coal train on September 23 1927 . |
| 8 | This process , which became known as impeachment , seems to have arisen by accident when de la Mare declared that he and his colleagues would maintain their charges in common . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , during October of 1756 , Anthony Tissington of Alfreton in Derbyshire , set men to work at Coniston on the westerly edge of the sett , that part which became known as Paddies ' End . |
| 10 | It has been mentioned earlier however , that with gunpowder , Roe modified the old 17th century hand chiselled level which became known as Cobbler 's Level . |
| 11 | Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle . |
| 12 | In one , he told Lanfranc that Osbern was now at peace with the new masters at Canterbury ; in another , he told the Italian prior Henry , in somewhat guarded language , that Osbern now recognized and repented of his fault , which Anselm ascribed to imprudence rather than pride . |
| 13 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 14 | I add my voice to the condemnation of the activity of the Provisional IRA which has pertained in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years and which in this case was clearly sectarian as it killed seven Protestant workers . |
| 15 | They have Alan Watt and Shade Munro in the engine room , but will have to be alert against a Currie outfit which has grown in style and stature throughout the season . |
| 16 | The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year . |
| 17 | The shares closed at 56p — much higher than most analysts had been predicting given the £185m hole which has appeared in Ferranti 's accounts as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 18 | One suggestion which has appeared in print was that the clone should bear the name of one of the Directors which Sir Nigel Gresley ordered for the North British Railway . |
| 19 | We 've also held a conference of a more general kind on the situation of refugees in the United Kingdom , in which a report was produced , that particularly highlighted the legal situation of the refugees , that had quite an impact among international organizations like United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has served as basis for a number of proposals to change the present legal regime of refugees in the UK . |
| 20 | The venture , originally styled Information Workbench and based in Mountain View , California , is being funded by Sippl , who provided the seed capital , and venture capitalist Mohr Davidow Ventures , which has kicked in $1.5m . |
| 21 | The kind of information which a long-term participant observer receives must be treated with the greatest circumspection , for it depends ultimately not on whether he or she is carrying a tape-recorder , but on the degree of trust , mutual confiding and general affinity which has developed between researcher and subjects . |
| 22 | Paykel separates these from the person 's specific vulnerability to events , or to particular events , which has developed from personality attributes or developmental experiences . |
| 23 | The other weakness is the ending , which has suffered from Hollywood 's perception of the tastes of the American box office . |
| 24 | The other weakness is the ending , which has suffered from Hollywood 's perception of the tastes of the American box office . |
| 25 | He can now put his dry economic views to the test in an area of spending which has soared despite Mrs Thatcher 's strictures on good housekeeping . |
| 26 | It was formed by the heating and crushing of shale , a sedimentary rock which has hardened from mud . |
| 27 | Much of the controversy which has arisen over land use during the past ten years has centred on the changing balance of power between planners and developers . |
| 28 | In the light of the serious situation which has arisen in relation to the Maxwell case , will my right hon. Friend take a good look at the pension funds of ABG Research , which is about to be wound up ? |
| 29 | A DISPUTE which has emerged between Darlington Council and National Car Parks is threatening to cause problems when the new Cornmill shopping centre opens later in the year . |
| 30 | In the event , the deal which has emerged in Taif has justified the general 's fears of what he would regard as a sell-out of the Maronite cause . |