Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results formed a report which was out within a month , and which led to far-reaching changes in our company 's approach to the problem . |
| 2 | They claim the proposals could have an even bigger impact on the network than the Beeching report which led to widespread closures in the sixties . |
| 3 | Special thanks must go to our many suppliers and customers for their most generous gifts and donations which ranged from 3 Nights in Paris for two , to a bottle of whisky . |
| 4 | Twenty-nine countries — members of the North Atlantic Treaty organization ( NATO ) and the former Warsaw Pact , including the successor states to the Soviet Union — on June 5 signed a revised Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , which provided for sharp reductions in conventional weaponry and troop levels in Europe . |
| 5 | I was afflicted with diarrhoea — and directed to the communal latrine , which consisted of eight holes in the ground surrounded by a large enclosure of bamboo walls . |
| 6 | His evidence was the migration of the water hen ( Tribonyx ventralis ) , which arrived in enormous numbers in November from somewhere in the north , and returned again after only two or three months . |
| 7 | With gliders which climbed above 15,000 feet in cloud in the early 1960s , there was approximately one serious strike or electrical damage for every ten flights . |
| 8 | Although during Roman times bronze and marble were the materials most commonly used in sculpture , the tradition of reproducing the human form in ivory was continued in the small scale reliefs carved on the backs of the writing tablets which served as official presents in pagan antiquity and as votive offerings in the early Christian church . |
| 9 | The human assault on the atmosphere probably started with the large-scale burning of fossil fuels , which began in northern latitudes in the Middle Ages . |
| 10 | BRIGHTNESS , the beluga whale which escaped from Russian researchers in the Black Sea , faces a dark future as a tourist attraction in a floating cage . |
| 11 | The latest unit to go in IBM Corp 's cutting loose of its surplus manufacturing plants , which started with four factories in Europe last week , is IBM Canada Ltd 's Toronto manufacturing division , which is to become a separate , wholly owned subsidiary with a different , but as yet undetermined , name and logo : the Toronto division employs about 900 and has export revenues of some $800m annually ; all employees will be offered positions with the new company , which will continue to manufacture products for IBM — for the time being at least , and will also seek work outside the company . |
| 12 | The commission 's defence task force , which called for radical changes in military procurement practice , was led by & name , the new deputy secretary of defence . |
| 13 | It is important , too , because it arises out of Lord Cullen 's report which focused on other accidents in the oil industry , and elsewhere , as well as on the Piper Alpha accident . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the Magistrate had ordered the native pensioners to collect up the vernacular records and documents which lay in shallow drifts in the new trenches … all that now remained of the experimental greenhouse in which he had observed the progress and ubiquity of the Company 's stupidity . |
| 15 | If one enters this part of the town from the west , past the Roman amphitheatre which fell on evil days in the Middle Ages when theatrical spectacles were banned — but has now revived its ancient beauty and a part of its function , as a setting for Aida and her kin — the road leads through a Roman gate , perfectly preserved , into the ancient grid of streets , laid down by Roman town planners in the first century B.C. and little altered . |
| 16 | Smith 's most influential book , The Golden Stool ( 1926 ) , which went through five impressions in its first year , addressed the issue of ‘ culture contact ’ in Africa . |
| 17 | The first detachment of the Moors and foreign legionaires crossed from Morocco to the Spanish mainland on 19 July , an action which coincided with military revolts in Seville , Cadiz and Barcelona . |
| 18 | So , during 1992 , she and the midwives of her region ran a very effective campaign which resulted in nationwide changes in the contents of the packs . |
| 19 | I ended up in hospital in a plaster cast , the trauma of which brought about a nervous breakdown which resulted in ten months in a psychiatric hospital . |
| 20 | However , given government commitments on green belts ( which increased from 1,475,000 hectares in the old development plans to 1,800,000 hectares in 1983 structure plans ) , and the very small amount of land needed ( estimated at one per cent of the total land area of England ) , no national problem exists . |
| 21 | His wife Susan was as short as he was tall , and looked uncomfortable in an emerald-green satin dress held on both shoulders by huge satin bows which flapped like startled birds in the breeze . |
| 22 | Dr Tyrrell 's unit on Salisbury Plain , which closed for financial reasons in 1990 , tried unsuccessfully for 44 years to find a cure for the common cold , conducting experiments on more than 18,000 volunteers . |