Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They did the same to the glass industry , which became based on the island of Murano . ’ |
| 2 | The questions which arose turned on the construction of the then rules concerning leave to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction : Rousou 's Trustee v. Rousou [ 1955 ] 1 W.L.R. 545 and , later , [ 1955 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 3 | It had been shattered along with the glass tank , the debris of which lay scattered on the carpet . |
| 4 | His eyes were on Meredith , who was framed against the peeling ochre wall , her flame-burst of hair a startling contrast to her pale cream skin and the delicate snowflakes which lay scattered on her head like confetti . |
| 5 | One was paying the enemy to go away , an expedient which Æthelred adopted on several occasions , and which was also used by Alfred and envisaged by Eadred . |
| 6 | By the end of 1989 Panama had also been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of $150,000,000 which had accumulated on loans of $337,000,000 from that body . |
| 7 | In 1857 Széchenyi , now recovered , was appalled by the effects of the decade of repressive absolutism which had followed on the collapse of the national movement in 1848–49 . |
| 8 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 9 | It would keep the offenders sitting there day after day , wearing clothes which had written on them what crimes they had committed . |
| 10 | What is certain is that Attila 's decision to invade Gaul marked the failure of Aëtius 's policies , which had depended on using the Huns to further his own career in Italy , and to keep the barbarians in check in Gaul . |
| 11 | However , a special session of the Cambodian Supreme National Council ( SNC ) — the interim body established by the Paris accords to represent all four Cambodian factions — which had met on June 21 , failed in its attempt to extract a pledge from the Khmers Rouges that it would abide by the second stage of the peace plan . |
| 12 | The talks , which had resumed on Oct. 31 shortly after the congressional and gubernatorial elections [ see p. 38525 ] , focused on the possibility of a ceasefire , with agreement reached on 10 topics for a preliminary agenda . |
| 13 | News of the suspension of the conference , which had resumed on Jan. 14 after a series of delays but had soon come into confrontation with the government , was greeted with demonstrations in Kinshasa . |
| 14 | On June 16 the conference , which had insisted on its sovereign status in defiance of the order of Prime Minister Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond [ see p. 38852 ] , began debating the choice of a Prime Minister . |
| 15 | A communiqué issued after the meeting said that delegates had declared Iraq to be a " democratic federal country " , and had agreed on a federal structure based on wilayats or provinces , reportedly as a gesture to Islamic parties which had insisted on Arab-Islamic nomenclature . |
| 16 | Kuwait , which had insisted on a quota of 1,750,000 bpd , agreed to limit output to 1,500,000 bpd on the understanding that it would increase production when market conditions and prices permitted . |
| 17 | It welcomed " the fact that the three republics [ Byelarus , Ukraine and Russia which had decided on Dec. 8 to form a commonwealth of independent states ] engaged in this comprehensive process of change have declared that they mutually recognize and respect each other 's territorial integrity and the inviolability of the borders existing in the context of their Commonwealth " . |
| 18 | It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban ; she had saved her day 's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple ; her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better . |
| 19 | Defence barristers for people charged with riot asked police officers in court to justify their behaviour at Orgreave — the details of which had appeared on television screens across the country . |
| 20 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 21 | He was a big man everything about him was big shoulders , chest , nose eyes and ears everything except his near-flat stomach and his hair which had faded on top and grown to wise-looking grey tufts over his ears . |
| 22 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 23 | So ended a dispute between the Crown and its subjects which had gone on intermittently for more than four hundred years . |
| 24 | Marshall suggested that a quarter of all the acid rain which had fallen on Norway in the previous century had come from Britain . |
| 25 | In a fog I crawled out of bed to pick up a blanket which had fallen on the floor , and as I did so I glanced through into the living room and made out , in the darkness , Changez Lying on his camp-bed watching me . |
| 26 | The previous week , Virgin had requested immediate permission to go over the facility by some £200,000 , to meet short-term outgoings for the airline ( to pay , in fact , for the engine which had expired on the air-operator 's test flight ) . |
| 27 | The previous agreement , which had limited steel imports to 18.4 per cent of the US market , and which had expired on Sept. 30 , 1989 , was extended for 2@1/2 years . |
| 28 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 29 | At the end of August the rains stopped as suddenly as if taps had been turned off September was considered by the English community even under normal conditions to be the most unhealthy month of the year ; while the hot sun resumed its office of drying out the pools of water which had collected on the sodden earth , fever-bearing mists and miasmas hung everywhere . |
| 30 | The electoral campaign , which had begun on Dec. 4 , ended on Feb. 21 , and was attended by an estimated 2,500 international observers including representatives of the United Nations , the Organization of American States and the European Parliament and a United States team led by the former President , Jimmy Carter . |