Example sentences of "[Wh det] were [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plenty of lines on his face , which she had n't really noticed before , but which were particularly noticeable now . |
| 2 | There were also several heads which were most attractive especially those of children . |
| 3 | Indeed , sites which were generally successful often attracted organs of government to them , as was the case with the cities and major towns , but in these and other instances it is always difficult to distinguish the primary function once it has been overlaid or mixed with others . |
| 4 | Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands . |
| 5 | Even ‘ library research ’ usually encompasses some element of newness — the researcher concerned making intellectual links which were not apparent before . |
| 6 | Dress code : Adidas tracksuits and shells ( fat laces , of course ) Kangols and Westwood Buffalo hats ( which were quite silly enough the first time round as far as we 're concerned ) . |
| 7 | However , in real life such referentially obscure and ambiguous material is rare and Thorndyke therefore investigated memory for passages which were relatively coherent even when their precise theme was not specified in advance . |
| 8 | He was clothed in the vestments of the Seven Orders of the Church and the insignia of an archbishop , which were then each solemnly stripped from him . |
| 9 | I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went . |
| 10 | The authors suggest the rise in kidnapping in recent years may be related to the easier access now available to neonatal units , which were once open only to fathers , and then within strict visiting hours . |
| 11 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 12 | But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside . |
| 13 | In a survey of dreams reported by university students , they found that dream images which were highly vivid also tended to be " surprising " , and at the centre of the visual field . |
| 14 | The experiments were repeated many times with similar results which were highly significant statistically . |