Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most popular form of reading among the literate poor was , as Dr Vincent has pointed out , one which told much the same tales as did the oral tradition . |
| 2 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 3 | items consisted of two pairs of hands which were either similarly or differently orientated , and pairs of faces which had either the same expression or a different one . |
| 4 | However , in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford 's at Cambridge , James Chadwick , discovered that the nucleus contained another particle , called the neutron , which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge . |
| 5 | This solution was applied both to aircraft and to Motor Torpedo Boats , which had much the same troubles as wooden aircraft . |