Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , a fear of revolution on the lines of that which had occurred in France still loomed large in the minds of the new English bourgeoisie , underpinning the demand for an organized police system geared to the protection of the life and property of the ruling classes ( Reiner 1985 ) . |
| 2 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 3 | This was just one of several anxious comments about the changes which had occurred in population during the inter-war years . |
| 4 | In the final analysis there would be a dramatic decline in population , with deaths exceeding births — a foretaste of which had occurred in the early 1930s . |
| 5 | Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years . |
| 6 | It was a thought which had occurred to Tweed . |
| 7 | That report voted best piece of research in the 1991 Extel survey of institutional investors — was inspired , Mr Smith says , by the belief that ‘ much of the apparent growth in profits which had occurred in the 1980s was the result of accounting sleight of hand rather than genuine economic growth ’ . |
| 8 | Myopotamus Manor , which had occurred to him , was just a joke . |
| 9 | He discovered loose rivets and serious fretting which had occurred between the main beam and the first three crossbeams on the right-hand side only . |
| 10 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 11 | In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) . |
| 12 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 13 | However , a light but bitterly cold breeze was a strong reminder of the horrors which had occurred to previous travellers , in far worse conditions . |
| 14 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 15 | Not merely did he claim to present to livings retrospectively in his own reign but even to vacancies which had occurred sede vacante in his father 's reign ! |
| 16 | Held , dismissing the appeals , that failure to observe the proper procedures for service was not necessarily fatal to the lawfulness of a committal order ; that the court , in exercising its discretion under section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , had to take into account the interests not only of the contemnor but also of those affected by the contempt and the need to maintain its authority , and that where an irregularity caused the contemnor no injustice the committal order should not be set aside ; that since , in the first appeal , there was no requirement for personal service of a committal order so that the only irregularity was that the court , rather than the local authority had served a copy of the order on the contemnor 's solicitors , the contemnor had suffered no injustice and the order would stand ; and that , in the second appeal , since the husband was fully aware of the findings of contempt and had not sought to challenge them or the sentence imposed , he had suffered no injustice and it was appropriate in the circumstances to affirm the order despite the irregularities which had occurred ( post , pp. 822B–C , F — 823B , 823C–E , 824B–D , F , 825C–D , 826D–F ) . |
| 17 | ‘ You think leaving the valley is corrupting , do n't you ? ’ said Lydia who was clinging like a terrier to a theme which had occurred to her . |
| 18 | Suddenly he was determined to unravel the intrigue which he was certain linked many of the events which had occurred since Nogai 's death . |
| 19 | These in turn prompted greater resistance , and eventually a successful uprising against the proprietary in 1689 , fourteen years after the death of Cecil Calvert , which had occurred 30 November 1675 in London . |
| 20 | An interesting insight into the kind of restructuring which had occurred in memory when subjects discovered what the theme of the passage was in Thorndyke 's experiment comes from recall in the narrative after-theme condition . |
| 21 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 22 | A naval investigation began in August 1989 into the cause of an explosion which had occurred on board the battleship USS Iowa in April 1989 , causing the death of 47 sailors [ see p. 36604 ] . |
| 23 | According to the resolution the conference would have , among others , the following aims : to examine the state of the environment and changes which had occurred since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and since other meetings and agreements such as the 1987 Montreal protocol on the ozone layer [ see pp. 35678 ; 36412 ] ; to " examine strategies for national and international action … to promote a supportive international economic environment that would result in sustained and environmentally sound development in all countries , with a view to combating poverty and improving the quality of life " ; and to promote the " further development of international environmental law " . |
| 24 | Recent opinion polls , taken in the light of the changes which had occurred in Eastern Europe , showed a further erosion of support . |
| 25 | The decree was in part a response to months of student protest against the court ruling , some of the strongest of which had occurred in November 1989 . |
| 26 | Over 3,000,000 people took part in the 1990 May Day celebrations , and on July 26 , the anniversary of the 1953 Moncada uprising , Castro told a mass rally that Cuba 's commitment to socialism was irreversible , in spite of changes which had occurred in Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | Kim Il Sung was re-elected President of the Republic on May 24 and restated in his inaugural speech his commitment to socialism despite the " temporary setbacks " which had occurred elsewhere in the world [ ibid . ] . |
| 28 | A conference was held on Dec. 16-18 in Mopti , some 500 km north-west of the capital Bamako , with the aim of ending the rebellion of Tuaregs in the north of the country which had occurred in July [ see p. 38325 ] . |
| 29 | Suchinda resigned as Prime Minister on May 24 , stating that he strongly regretted the events which had occurred during his brief premiership . |
| 30 | We also left a space for teachers to add any others which had occurred in their school . |