Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1943 the Town and Country Planning ( Interim Development ) Bill received the Royal Assent , legislation which effectively extended planning control to the whole of the country not so far covered by a planning scheme . |
| 2 | The first person she met when she walked through the backstage door was Josh , and , if the situation had n't been so terrible , his expression — which somehow managed to combine outrage , amazement and sheer blessed relief — would have been positively comical . |
| 3 | I was n't inclined to linger anyway ; the day I arrived I caught a bus in the square which just happened to have Collioure on the front . |
| 4 | In June 1991 the government introduced a draft Pact of Progress , which controversially sought to tie wage rises to productivity ; a deadline for union agreement on the plan was set for the end of September [ see p. 38114 ] . |
| 5 | We heard a lot about the politicisation of the universities in the late 60s and early 70s : academic life in Germany was punctuated by demonstrations and strikes , which also helped to disrupt university life . |
| 6 | The growth of domestic demand was also boosted by the connection of many new consumers : the Boards naturally gave priority to the new estates and ‘ pre-fabs ’ of the postwar housing drive which urgently needed to have electricity connected . |
| 7 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 8 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 9 | This was the era of competitive capitalism and the laisser-faire state which simply sought to guarantee freedom of contract and trade at the same time as it dismantled the restrictive apparatus of the feudal economy and secured public order at home and defence from abroad . |
| 10 | We might say that Love 's Cure produces transgression precisely in order to contain it , and in the most insidiously ideological way : the deviant desire which initially appeared to contradict nature is reconstituted by nature in accord with her ( ? ) order . |
| 11 | In their own study which actually involved recording EEG/EOG measures of sleeping shiftworkers in their own homes using a portable tape recorder , they also found that sleep during the day was generally shorter than night-time sleep , and more frequently interrupted by awakenings . |
| 12 | At Homestead they were guests of the 482 Tactical Fighter Wing which recently had seen action in the Gulg , and It was here that each was given a certificate making them Honorary F-16 Fighter Pilots . |
| 13 | On May 26 the High Court dismissed the action against the INEC , which subsequently began to issue registration forms to prospective parties . |
| 14 | Erm the work that I became , as it happened , mostly concerned with was the erm granting of major scholarships as they were then called which subsequently became called County Awards and er which were attainable in those days only at universities |