Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite grand plans for the ‘ informationisation of society ’ , the partnership of government and industry which operated under the government of Valery Giscard d'Estaing left the French information-technology industry in a mess — at least compared with American or Japanese firms . |
| 2 | All three National governments , which operated under the premiership of J. Ramsay MacDonald ( 1931–5 ) , Stanley Baldwin ( 1935–37 ) and Neville Chamberlain ( 1937–40 ) , displayed increasing respect for the trade unions in the 1930s . |
| 3 | Sitcoms like Love Thy Neighbour , Till Death Us Do Part and Mind Your Language were stuffed to bursting with gags which operated on the principle that differences of colour or culture were an endless source of easy laughs . |
| 4 | This scheme has replaced transitional relief which operated in the year 1990–91 . |
| 5 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 6 | The Dalmatians from Ragusa represented the most important of the outside influences which penetrated into the heart of the Balkans . |
| 7 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 8 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 9 | [ For November SPD congress which agreed on the need to tighten the law see p. 39208 . ] |
| 10 | There were two stern clocks on the walls — neither of which agreed with the time according to Rock Hardy — and a set of coloured prints showing dreary desert scenes . |
| 11 | Even so , in the diffuse community which centred on the church there might be those willing to shelter him . |
| 12 | The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister , Mahmud Va'ezi , visited Bonn on Dec. 11-12 for discussions which centred on the hostage issue . |
| 13 | After several months of growing pressure the " Iraqgate " affair — which centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence — burst into the open during October . |
| 14 | The move brought into the open the so-called " Saddamgate " scandal , the rumbling allegations of which centred upon the charge that the Bush government had concealed that extent of its illegal support for Saddam Hussein prior to August 1990 . |
| 15 | During his stay Baker held talks with Assad , which centred around the situation in the Gulf and which were described as " positive and constructive " by the Syrian Foreign Minister , Farooq ash-Shar " . |
| 16 | Still critical of the economic and social pressures which centred around the city they could yet find no alternative in this countryside where nature , it was known , was not Marlowe 's ‘ beds of roses ‘ . |
| 17 | It hit out after a report from the Parliamentary Ombudsman sharply criticised the Ministry of Agriculture over its failure to ‘ devise and implement a scheme which complied with the legislation ’ to pay compensation . |
| 18 | The European Economic Community produced a Directive on product liability in 1985 ( Directive 85/374/EEC ) and member states were given three years to introduce national laws which complied with the directive . |
| 19 | A little earlier the mother of Dr Neil 's surgery boy , who carried out the doctor 's errands on the bicycle which lived in the outhouse , had come to say that Eddie had broken his arm and would not be fit to carry out his duties . |
| 20 | He loosened two buttons on the shoulders of her fine cotton-shift dress , which fluttered to the floor . |
| 21 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 22 | These were all forms which failed towards the end of the Cretaceous , except for the crocodilian which still live on , virtually unchanged , today . |
| 23 | Yet , despite the five centuries which passed between the creation of these two buildings and their different geographical location , they have much in common . |
| 24 | The outer skin of any craft which passed through the air barrier of a force field stored static electricity like a giant capacitor . |
| 25 | A map recovered from the wreckage showed a direct track drawn between Blackbushe and Cranfield which passed through the north west comer of the Luton special rules zone . |
| 26 | It protected the entrance to a tunnel which passed through the wall , and Rostov was amazed at its length . |
| 27 | In recent years a bypass was built , considerably lessening the load of traffic which passed through the village , and a period of comparative peace was enjoyed . |
| 28 | Girobank handled £47m in retail deposits and transactions last year , which the bank says works out at £1 in every £3 which passed through the nation 's tills . |
| 29 | By English law , it was the father 's nationality which passed to the child and Michael Joyce had renounced his British citizenship long before . |
| 30 | The CSO , which passed from the control of the Cabinet Office to the Treasury earlier this year , prepares the National Accounts and many other economic statistics . |