Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DETERRED by a quotation of £3,000 for the work , Four Marks Parish Council have decided not to get the mound of earth and builders ' rubble which has accumulated at the village centre levelled . |
| 2 | No more than 15 pairs of the bird are in the country , and the pair which has appeared at the site for the last 15 years is the only one in the south-west . |
| 3 | A similar lane design is apparent in the short section of curving roadway which has survived at the Minoan village of Tylissos , just to the west of House C ( Figure 13 and Plate 13 ) . |
| 4 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 5 | Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context . |
| 6 | The most interesting show out of London is Miro : Sculpture , which has opened at the Southampton City Art Gallery ; 37 bronzes are on show , each one of them made by a Catalan , anarchist , sex-mad Santa Claus |
| 7 | In tandem with the major exhibition on Rietveld 's activities as an architect and furniture designer which has opened at the Centraal Museum of Utrecht ( until 21 February ) , the City Council of Utrecht has pledged DFl.270,000 ( £84,400 ; $146,800 ) for the restoration of ten early villas by the Dutch artist , furniture designer and architect . |
| 8 | Richard 's brother Charles told stories about the creatures that lived around the black loch which lay hidden at the mountain 's crest . |
| 9 | Only the 13 legalized opposition groups which had participated at the conference were allowed to put up candidates . |
| 10 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 11 | Sonia refused the party presidency , not surprisingly ; and the stock markets , which had plunged at the news of Rajiv 's death and risen at the news of her election , plunged again . |
| 12 | For 1991 , it was decided to combine the support posts which had existed at the Data Archive and at Manchester in a single unit . |
| 13 | As we waited for the lights to change I noticed a sleek white sports car which had stopped at the foot of the church steps to take in a passenger . |
| 14 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 15 | It was the end to a protracted period of trauma and uncertainty for the management and employees of the company , which had begun at the beginning of the year when the rumours that Gardner Merchant was for sale had begun to circulate . |
| 16 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
| 17 | He told his colleagues about his great aunt 's Daimler , which had travelled at the ‘ sensible speed of thirty miles an hour ’ , and was sufficiently spacious to enable one to descend from it without removing one 's top hat . |
| 18 | Tonight the sun shone through elegant Regency stripes of red and cream instead of through the chintz which had hung at the window for the past month . |
| 19 | Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ? |
| 20 | On Oct. 28 French naval tugs had towed away boats belonging to the environmental group Greenpeace International , which had docked at the port of Cherbourg to await the imminent arrival of the Akatsuki Maru . |
| 21 | Heads of state and government of the 12 member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) met in Luxembourg on June 28-29 to take stock of progress in the negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and European political union ( EPU ) which had opened at the Rome summit in December 1990 [ see pp. 37905-06 ] . |
| 22 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 23 | The index can be seen as measuring the increase in gross taxable income required to compensate taxpayers for any increase in retail prices , taking into account any changes in direct taxation ( including employees ' National Insurance contributions ) which have occurred at the same time . |
| 24 | In recent years the two guiding principles of non-discrimination and multilateralism which have lain at the heart of the GATT system have been gradually eroded . |
| 25 | All of the studies which have looked at the effect of maturity on mispricings ( Bhatt and Cakici , 1990 ; Klemkosky and Lee , 1991 ; MacKinlay and Ramaswamy , 1988 ; Twite , 1991a ; Strickland and Xu , 1992 ; Yadav and Pope , 1990 ; 1992b ) have found that mispricings tend to decline in size and frequency as delivery approaches . |
| 26 | Details of companies which have looked at the centre are still a closely guarded secret , but BPT believes many of the centre 's shops will be let , if not trading , by the time the centre opens . |
| 27 | This is what has happened at the New End Hospital in Hampstead , where the developer , by adopting a conservation scheme , has gained more space than by demolition and rebuilding . |
| 28 | yeah I think what , what has happened at the moment is that he would be almost helpless because there are so many things that are wrong with the world that it seems to be because we get so much information as a |
| 29 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 30 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |