Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In particular , he was keen to be among the extras who despairingly crowded the rail as the ship went down — keen , you could say , to undergo in fiction an alternative version of history . |
| 2 | in 1938 for a thesis on eighteenth-century English political history ; third , as a tutorial fellow ( 1945 ) who effectively combined a heavy teaching programme with research ; fourth , as senior tutor ( 1946–53 ) , a long period which greatly widened his experience ; and , finally , as an outstanding master from 1957 until his death . |
| 3 | Yet by the time the invasion neared he was one of the inner-most group of five Ministers — with Eden , Lloyd , Macmillan and Head [ who had replaced Monckton as Minister of Defence ] ( plus Mountbatten , the Chief of Staff ) — who effectively took the decision to issue an ultimatum to Egypt and Israel . |
| 4 | Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups . |
| 5 | Galloway was actively involved in the management of the business while it was expanding rapidly , but after it was formed into a limited company under the name of Galloway Ltd. in 1889 it was Charles John , the chairman and managing director , who effectively held the reins . |
| 6 | After 1911 Manchuria fell under the domination of the warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who effectively controlled the territory until 1928 . |
| 7 | The powerful Yang brothers ( President Yang Shangkun and Yang Baibing ) , who effectively controlled the People 's Liberation Army , initiated a major military reshuffle in April and May 1990 , affecting six of China 's seven military regions . |
| 8 | We talked of the tremendous impression that our century 's two great conflicts had made upon Finzi , a widely-read intellectual , who paradoxically shunned the public life of the composer , finding his personal outlet in terms of an insular , and yet highly individual musical style . |
| 9 | As well as being deficient in mass support , the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves . |
| 10 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |
| 11 | LORD Young , the former Trade Secretary , who secretly authorised the £38 million ‘ sweeteners ’ paid to British Aerospace to buy Rover , last night launched a strong defence of the deal . |
| 12 | But amongst the fakes , obsessives and lunatics , was there perhaps a man who instinctively knew the route to the Imajica ? |
| 13 | So too , in less tragic circumstances , artists and intellectuals who instinctively loathed the Arts Council rallied round when Thatcher put the boot in . |
| 14 | 144 ‘ Artificial lesbianism ’ , as opposed to ‘ true ’ homosexuality of the ‘ congenital invert ’ , was condemned as the product of a culture which segregated the sexes and manufactured perverts out of women who instinctively preferred the love of a man . |
| 15 | It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) . |
| 16 | Erika , who rather liked the Kiev , was disdainful . |
| 17 | Fenella , who rather liked the look of the Gnomes , thought they were a bit like careful children , diligently remembering their manners , sprinkling their conversation with ‘ please ’ and ‘ thank you ’ , and with things like , ‘ I 'll trouble you for the jam pot , your honour ’ , or ‘ after you with the tomato chutney , your worship ’ . |
| 18 | But the moment alone was enough to prove that the Soviet authorities are sincere in their efforts to resolve the riddle of a romantic , mythical figure who single-handedly saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in wartime Budapest before disappearing for ever , at the start of 1945 , into the darkness of Stalin 's Russia . |
| 19 | Although Scotland fans remember Jimmy Johnstone as the drunken hero of the Largs boating trip , a passing thought should be spared for a couple of local brothers , John and Tam Halliday , two old men who luckily owned a boat and had a lifetime 's knowledge of the maritime area . |
| 20 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |
| 21 | The rest were helpers or hands , who mostly did the same work and did as they were told . |
| 22 | The problem for Balcon and the Ealing cronies who mostly peopled the Bryanston board was how , after years of looking inwards to British themes , to define the international film . |
| 23 | They drew , too , upon illegal literature put out by clandestine presses within Russia , and upon the legally published works of social critics who skilfully circumvented the censor , the most influential being the journalist N.G. Chernyshevsky . |
| 24 | Often these sorties would result in a skirmish with the pigeons , who presumably saw the ducks as invaders on their patch . |
| 25 | Nithard went on to speak of a " pact " ( pactum ) between the two royal brothers and the primores populi , that is the " leading men " who presumably swore the oaths in person . |
| 26 | What to me seems surprising is that M. Oliver , who presumably supplied the recipes for the Le Creuset leaflet , does not give what is said to be the old and traditional fondue of Franche-Comté , a dish in every respect superior to its primitive Swiss counterpart , having both greater finesse of flavour and texture and far less brutally indigestible qualities . |
| 27 | Since the , there have been hints of enthusiasm in certain quarters for the wristy genius Mushtaq Ahmed ( who eventually got the nod — ED . ) . |
| 28 | Thomas Edison , the man who eventually invented the electric light bulb , said ‘ failure is essential to success … you can not succeed without failing … double your failure rate if you want to succeed . ’ |
| 29 | His downfall came five years later and the new owners were the Denison family who eventually took the name of the village for their title . |
| 30 | The part of Susan , though , went through a lot of casting before Verity Lambert arrived at Carole Ann Ford , including the auditioning of juvenile actress Jackie Lane , who eventually landed the part of Dodo Chaplet some years later . |