Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darley Anderson has sold television rights to Martina Cole 's bestselling Dangerous Lady ( which Headline bought in a two-book deal for £150,000 ) . |
| 2 | This was the cause of his deafness , which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics . |
| 3 | Pundits are unanimous that recovery has arrived , but the string of statistics which have pointed to a vigorous upturn in the early part of the year have been greeted with caution . |
| 4 | On a broader front , even the popular movements are only now beginning to raise issues connected with gender and women 's rights despite the long-standing existence of women 's groups which have campaigned on a variety of anti-apartheid issues . |
| 5 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 6 | The proposals fall short of demands made by Scottish Natural Heritage and environment groups , which have called for a ban on tanker traffic in the Fair Isle Straits . |
| 7 | Business failures , which have rocketed to a staggering 76 a day , should also decline . |
| 8 | They were quick to spot the first ripples of concern which have surged into a tide over the past year . |
| 9 | Some countries , such as Mexico and Chile , have gone through periods of quite radical change , only to be followed by changing political conditions , which have led to a reversal of policy . |
| 10 | These grants have encouraged changes in hill farming which have led to a loss of semi-natural vegetation , traditional farm woodland and field boundaries , and have been offset by increases in commercial forestry , and cultivated crops and grass . |
| 11 | The data examined in this study give a consistent picture of behaviour changes among homosexual men which have led to a continuance of HIV transmission in this group in England and Wales . |
| 12 | Studies of aid projects have tended to focus on the results of such projects and have lacked detailed analysis of what preceded the projects or the political and bureaucratic factors which have led to a project being implemented or abandoned . |
| 13 | It is the high stakes , no doubt , allied to the frustration of failing to achieve personal ambitions , which have led to a number of outbreaks this season on the professional Tours . |
| 14 | The demographic developments which have led to an ageing population in Britain are characteristic of all developed nations , with a trend towards lower birth rates and reduced mortality at all ages . |
| 15 | On the one hand , it has been interpreted as indicating a revival of entrepreneurial vigour with new firms being formed either on the basis of new technologies or else in order to exploit market opportunities which have emerged as a result of the recession . |
| 16 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 17 | Although total revenues generated in the first-class game increased in actual terms , by seven and a half per cent , to the £24.5 million mark , the inexorable rise in costs has taken over £1 million out of the combined surpluses of the counties , which have descended to a dangerously low level of just under |
| 18 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 19 | The villages which can claim a degree of undisturbed continuity beyond this are not usually agricultural villages at all , but medieval textile ‘ towns ’ which have reverted to an agricultural status following the transfer of textile production to the industrial North during the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | In the political and military conflicts which have arisen as a result of these inequalities , education is not merely a casualty of war but is part of the battlefield . |
| 21 | We have announced a number of job losses over the past 12 months which have arisen as a result of er an internal cost cutting exercise to make our research more er cost effective , and also as a result of decisions by the Government and the electricity supply industry who have cut down their funding for basic research into reactor technology . |
| 22 | Often people become accustomed to odours especially those arising from works which have operated in a particular vicinity for a long time . |
| 23 | Some families require extensive help over a prolonged period to overcome long-standing emotional problems in the family which have culminated in a child who is failing to thrive or is obese . |
| 24 | The final separation may mean an agony of divided loyalty for the children of the marriage or it may spell relief from intolerable tensions which have developed over a long period . |
| 25 | The technological innovations which have developed as a result of society 's need to adapt to new conditions have been accompanied by a new epistemology . |
| 26 | The research will be concerned with the programmes for monitoring and evaluating the quality of schooling which have developed as a consequence of the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 27 | These are habits of conformity to rules which have developed by a kind of convention or tacit understanding , based on general recognition of the utility of establishing and retaining them . |
| 28 | There have been societies which have managed without a notion of the state and state power . ’ |
| 29 | But perhaps the most staggering inch loss of all was from her thighs which have reduced by an amazing 5½ inches each ! |
| 30 | Still hot , and completing its thermosetting process , the GRP rod continues on its way along the length of the machine in the company of another 24 or so rods which have passed through a parallel course . |