Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] been at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 2 | In Essex , a shire which had been at the heart of the 1381 troubles , the peasantry were able to improve their lot after the repression of the revolt . |
| 3 | The president of Daiwa Securities , Japan 's second-largest securities company , resigned on March 11 in connection with a stock scandal which threatened to reignite the controversy over the relationship between brokers and major clients which had been at the root of a series of scandals in mid-1991 [ see pp. 38292 ; 38342-42 ] . |
| 4 | With Fisher 's appointment as President of the Board ( having a seat in the Cabinet ) came an undertaking that money would be made available for such post-war reconstruction ; and the policy itself was enshrined in legislation to enable the kind of educational expansion within the continuing and adult sectors which had been at the forefront of the Newbolt Committee 's deliberations.5 In practice , however , such expansion was never enacted , despite the ever-increasing reliance of the universities upon state funds ( by 1931 they were receiving slightly over half their income from this source ) , |
| 5 | It was not until 1837 that the beautiful pair of wrought-iron gates , which had been at the entrance to Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , were purchased by the Duke of Devonshire for the main entrance to Chiswick House , created as the alternative to the old main entrance off Lord Burlington 's Lane . |