Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that he travelled to Europe and established the Merovingian dynasty of kings which ruled France until displaced in 679 AD , by which time the dynasty had become enfeebled . |
| 2 | The position of the territory , situated to the northeast of Beijing , bordered to the east by Korea and with a long frontier with Russia , was somewhat ambiguous , Home of the Manchu Qing dynasty which ruled China from 1644 until its fall in 1911 , it had a distinct status shared with no other part of the empire . |
| 3 | It was only in the mid twelfth century that the growing concentration of mercantile wealth led to the recognition of the oligarchy as the permanent government , which ruled Venice throughout the later centuries of her glory and her decline . |
| 4 | It was this government which ruled Britain until May 1940 , when yet another coalition , led by Churchill — a genuine all-party coalition — governed Britain until 1945 , when there was a return to party politics and alternating governments . |
| 5 | René Magritte 's work , which averaged £14,000 in 1975 , is now up 360% at £65,000 but down 38% on 1990 . |
| 6 | A plaque tells how it was once the wartime headquarters of 98 Squadron which operated Mitchells from Dunsfold . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom expert , very surprisingly , was equally silent on this matter ; he explained the purpose of Article 23 as being to enable Contracting States to refuse to execute Letters of Request which lacked specificity in that they did not describe precisely enough the documents to be obtained or examined . |
| 8 | But Labov 's main concern was to obtain insights into processes of linguistic change and to challenge linguistic theories which modelled language as a static entity , identifying homogeneity with structure . |
| 9 | At Bethlehem , New Hampshire , the highest village east of the Rockies , the Boston and Maine created a delightful , half-timbered chalet-style building with a great deal of space for the horse-drawn coaches and carriages which conveyed excursionists from the station . |
| 10 | But the actual implementation of this Christian philosophy often fell far short of these standards , and throughout the modern era we can trace a second layer , summed up in the phrase ‘ the double standard ’ , which enjoined chastity on the female while allowing a large degree of sexual freedom for the male . |
| 11 | Such differences in emphasis and even objective were the fatal flaw in the project , a flaw which saddled Tanzania with a $17 million commitment to repay the Bank 's soft loan wing , the International Development Agency ( IDA ) . |
| 12 | It has a very pleasant , extremely distinctive aroma which experienced vignerons in the Aube claim can be detected in a cuvée , despite the fact that its presence can only be , at the very most , a few percent of the overall blend . |
| 13 | They crossed the field at a leisurely walk , and as Lucy drew in deep breaths of the clear , crisp air she felt thankful for her jacket 's protection against the sharpness of the southerly breeze which whipped colour into her cheeks . |
| 14 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 15 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the case for pardoning Derek Bentley was supported by his trial jury , which recommended mercy in 1952 ; by the Lord Chief Justice of the day ; by the trial judge , who said subsequently that he believed that Bentley would not hang ; a subsequent Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham ; by many members of another place ; by many right hon. and hon. Members of this House — nearly one third of whom signed a recent early-day motion ; and by millions of our fellow citizens . |
| 16 | The Government 's Bill on embryo research comes after the report of the committee chaired by Baroness Warnock which recommended experiments on foetuses be allowed up to 14 days . |
| 17 | Three days later the UN Security Council approved a resolution , without a vote , which recommended membership for both states . |
| 18 | Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves . |
| 19 | It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Not only were West Germany , Japan , the United States and Sweden recording much better economic results than the United Kingdom , but European countries such as Italy , France and Spain experienced ‘ economic miracles ’ which passed Britain by . |
| 21 | At Robertsbridge coaling was merely one branch of a complex operation which produced cordwood for fuel , as well as inch-board , ship board and planking , which of course kept numerous sawyers busy . |
| 22 | Much work was needed to prepare enough radium to treat patients , but once it was made , it was a more convenient source of radiation than the apparatus , extremely primitive by modern standards , which produced X-rays from electric discharges . |
| 23 | The patient received local cobalt beam radiotherapy ( 9 Gy ) which produced regression of all lymph nodes , followed by maintenance therapy with chlorambucil 2 mg twice daily . |
| 24 | The table above is taken from a Social Security Select Committee report which produced figures for 1988 that the Government had decided not to produce itself . |
| 25 | The Commercial Property loss of $0.7m was an improvement on the previous year 's loss of $1.8m although this year the Perth floods resulted in several large claims which produced losses of $10m for this account . |
| 26 | He maintained an interest in two farms which produced willow for his bats . |
| 27 | Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place . |
| 28 | Thus comparisons could be made which revealed progress in some areas and decline in others . |
| 29 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 30 | Yakovlev had been editor of Moskovskiye novosti , a newspaper which had extended the boundaries of freedom of speech during the perestroika period , and had taken over the chairmanship of All-Union Television and Radio ( which became Ostankino in December 1991 " see p. 38655 ) in August 1991 after the failed coup [ see p. 38372 ] . |