Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pre-independence newspapers that campaigned for self-government knew what they were aiming for ; their journalists , contributors and backers came from the new , educated élite united by common aspirations and interests . |
| 2 | A series of Acts followed which strengthened the powers of magistrates . |
| 3 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |
| 4 | The rest seemed somewhat vacuous , in particular the endless miserable pursuit of Paradise Lost which was continually played out in forays into the Seventies . |
| 5 | Paula said : ‘ We are very pleased with the amount of money raised which reflects the generosity of our colleagues . ’ |
| 6 | The prospect of censure intensified what , for Galileo , was fast becoming a dilemma . |
| 7 | Viewing of this train — for those people whose names did not begin with a W — was from the quadrangle , and the startled crowd of spotters wondered what on earth had happened . |
| 8 | Functional index and glossary of words used which are not in the Cambridge English lexicon ( Levels 1–3 ) . |
| 9 | Once the text has been accurately input to the computer , there are no particular practical problems associated with running a concordance program to study a wide range of syntactic variables ; the major advantage of computer techniques is the ease with which repetitive processes can be carried out and large amounts of data stored which can later be added to . |
| 10 | Rostov was surprised that the question had not been asked earlier , and guessed that a code of manners existed which governed the kind of questions which could be asked . |
| 11 | But now , for the first time in English history , a set of circumstances existed which tested , whether this doctrine is always workable . |
| 12 | To the right of the mound of sand stood what remained of the houses in Testerton Street . |
| 13 | Away from Stroudwater the industry seems rather to have remained in the hands of independent craftsmen : in eight places where cloth was made , the structure of wealth resembled what was commonly found in parts where it had not taken root , with perhaps three of the four £100 men belonging to the gentry . |
| 14 | For example in the UK , the range of vocabulary can be indicative of level of education attained ; this can influence the type of job procured which determines economic bracket of income and in turn determines the person 's social class according to the Registrar-General 's classification ( p. 272 ) . |
| 15 | In one artist 's statement , he remarked : Whilst the Lefevre exhibition established him as urban romantic with a particular feeling for Thames-side subjects , a number of commissions followed which allowed him to develop this vein . |
| 16 | Inevitably , the rest of the company , the rest of Hochhauser knew what as going on . |
| 17 | Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students . |
| 18 | A network of ex-dealers discovered what they were up to . |
| 19 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 20 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 21 | In fact a continuum of behaviour emerged which explains more fully the teacher preference for boys . |
| 22 | Firstly , it was not until the 1930s that a substantial sector of education arose which was not directly under church control . |
| 23 | When the evidence was in , the seven members of the board of education did what everyone knew they would . |
| 24 | In the last three months , which should have seen the culmination of Jubilee Year , a number of things happened which combined to slow and stop the momentum of Jubilee Year . |
| 25 | Figure 2 , below , shows the proportion of items issued which came from each of these three locations . |
| 26 | Ben Knipe of Alsager suggested What 's New Pussycat ? |
| 27 | In the most beautiful of valleys flowed what appeared to be a classic grade III river . |
| 28 | Once again a representative of the Post Office demanded guard wires and in subsequent correspondence , the Board of Trade enquired which was Elis David Road and which was Lower Church Street , as they were too small to show clearly on the map . |
| 29 | Arising from the meeting on Wednesday a number of details arose which will be important in planning the site for next year . |
| 30 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |