Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first two decades of its existence it was one of many organisations which argued insistently for the creation of National Parks . |
| 2 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 3 | In so far as Preobrazhensky claimed that there was a law of primitive socialist accumulation in the Soviet economy which operated along with the law of value , he denied that there could be one , single , regulator for the whole economy . |
| 4 | There was the high-class brothel , managed by Michael Lee , which operated out of the house across the park from Katherine 's own home , and then there were the dozen or so girls — the pick of the brothel girls — who worked the society parties . |
| 5 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 6 | She had used some silky material to make a skirt which toned exactly with the wool , covered the buttons with the material of the skirt and the whole outfit was therefore beautifully co-ordinated . |
| 7 | The problem has been compounded by the hot summers of 1989-90 which increased the rate of soil evaporation , thereby further reducing the amount of water which penetrated through to the aquifers . |
| 8 | Now a poised , elegant creature stared back , dressed in a stylish cowl-necked black dress which swooped dramatically at the back . |
| 9 | Consequently , until 1935 the labour movement is of more interest when studied in its extra-parliamentary role , which centred largely around the issue of unemployment . |
| 10 | This was a ground-floor room which bulged out on the side of the house looking towards the big lawn and the stables . |
| 11 | Arctic biological resources have been sufficient to support small , scattered , nomadic populations which lived mainly along the coast or rivers . |
| 12 | J. S. Raworth , who was a director of both , invented a system of regenerative control , by which a car descending a steep hill , could use its motors as brakes and generate current which passed back into the overhead wires to be used by other cars ascending . |
| 13 | Nigel bought a pulley , and the offending object was banished — hoisted skywards , where it hung immobile except when lowered , which became mainly for the amusement of visiting children who nevertheless were informed that any bad behaviour would be punished by hauling them up twenty-five feet into space and leaving them . |
| 14 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 15 | Theodora followed the hair-cord runner down the middle of the dark hall to a door behind the staircase which led through to the kitchen . |
| 16 | When interrogated by the FBI in his British jail , Fuchs identified photographs of one of his contacts , Harry Gold , who named a trail of others which led eventually to an obscure machine-shop manager of Russian parentage , Julius Rosenberg , and his wife Ethel . |
| 17 | That is exactly what Jesus did by becoming man , travelling the road which led eventually to the cross . |
| 18 | ‘ Can I get to my room round this way ? ’ asked Belinda quickly as she slid her suitcases from Tom 's grasp and began to walk to the corner of the veranda which led around to the side of the house . |
| 19 | By the side of Gray 's Inn Buildings , which led on up the Avenue , some tall green wooden hoardings jutted out over part of the street and pavement , shielding some roadworks . |
| 20 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 21 | It was painted while and there was an untidy hedge in front of it , divided by a rickety gate which led on to a short path to the front door . |
| 22 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 23 | The great events of his administration were the return to the gold standard , the Treaty of Locarno , the General Strike , the Imperial Conference of 1926 which led on to the Statute of Westminster , and the measures originating in the Ministry of Health for the reform of local government and the extension of social security . |
| 24 | It required the outbreak of war and the threatened imminence of defeat to produce the power-sharing of 1940 , which led on to the power transference of 1945 . |
| 25 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 26 | He edged from the room as swiftly as the impeding furniture would let him , through the door which led straight onto the staircase to the upper storey . |
| 27 | Penry carried her carefully down a staircase which led straight into a large sitting-room . |
| 28 | In this perspective , it was industrialization and urbanization which triggered those processes and which led ultimately to a weakening of family ties , and especially ties with kin outside the so-called ‘ conjugal family ’ composed of a couple and their immature children ( Morgan , 1975 , ch. 2 ; Harris , 1983 , chs. 6–8 ) . |
| 29 | It was the beginning of our curiosity about each other which led ultimately to a mutual understanding and respect upon which our friendship became firmly based . |
| 30 | Good humour helped to see Victor through his prolonged ill health , caused by a lung complaint which led ultimately to a transplant operation from which he did not recover . |