Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Koch decided that no exchange could be located within 1,000 feet of a school , which ruled out the possibility of a communitybased programme . |
| 2 | Six Senior Clerks were each in charge of the Consular , the Slave Trade and four political departments , which divided up the world between them into convenient geographical areas . |
| 3 | It was wild countryside , steep hills and grassy plateaux , scarred and gashed by steel-grey rocks and rapid , frothing rivers which tumbled down the hillside . |
| 4 | They took an alley which doubled back the way they had come and then they branched off it . |
| 5 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 6 | L 20 , p. 19 ) , which laid down the principle of equal access to fishing grounds ; ( b ) the thirtieth recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3796/81 on the common organisation of the market in fishery products ( Official Journal 1981 No . |
| 7 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 8 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 9 | Markovic said that the country 's fortunes now rested largely on the conduct of the various republics and autonomous regions which made up the federation . |
| 10 | But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives . |
| 11 | Many of the elements which made up the relocation package applied equally to eligible staff moving from Kent and north London , for example , the payment of removal expenses , disturbance allowance and house expenses . |
| 12 | With the relaxed detachment of a man who has an implicit trust in his technology , Vologsky cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments which made up the control panel , taking note of the few facts he actually needed to know . |
| 13 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 14 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 15 | The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene . |
| 16 | ‘ I read an article which described how the town faced a housing crisis particularly among young people . |
| 17 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 18 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 19 | The committee which drew up the Act included a large representation from the Finnish National Board of Forestry . |
| 20 | The bid to revitalise the town was launched yesterday at Stockton Town Hall by John Sefton , chairman of Stockton Central Area Development Agency , which drew up the document . |
| 21 | The depth of the cut could be adjusted by means of a turn-screw which drew back the base plate . |
| 22 | They were finally rewarded when Wadforth fired them in front from a short corner but they momentarily relaxed and Pelicans replied almost immediately with a well-worked move from a long corner which caught out the defence . |
| 23 | They created an egg from which came forth the sun , who fashioned mankind and gave order to the world . |
| 24 | Other achievements included leading a Halifax squadron to attack the Tirpitz , only to crash in Norway and escape to England via Sweden to fight again and , of course , the creation and leading of the Pathfinders , which reduced dramatically the bombing errors of the less experienced crews to create a more viable bombing campaign , which itself helped shorten World War Two . |
| 25 | These were generally recognised to involve no large changes in technology , but there was considerable potential from a series of small innovations , which reduced both the capital and operating costs of generating equipment . |
| 26 | Added to this there was a belief in the economies of scale of large organisations — hence the 1970 White Paper on the Reorganisation of Central Government and the 1972 Local Government Act which reduced substantially the number of local authorities creating much larger organisations . |
| 27 | Therefore , new Protestant and Catholic trade unions were organised which rejected both the class war concepts and the optimistic socialist utopianism of the secular unions , with the result that three rival trade union centres were created ( Albeda , 1977 ) . |
| 28 | Steam shovels which dug out the ore from open-cast mines at Welford , a little to the east , eventually gave way to the colossal drag-line excavators which cut great scars across the landscape . |
| 29 | In the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 206 the two transactions which threw up the profit , namely the purchase and resale of the certificates of deposit , both took place outside Hong Kong and this Board held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong , notwithstanding the fact that all the instructions to buy and sell originated in Hong Kong and that there was no independent branch office interposed between the head office in Hong Kong and the following transactions . |
| 30 | Both Holywood and Instonians use the Olympia synthetic pitch as home venues , which threw up the possibility of the games being played back-to-back on April 24 — but the Centre has been already booked for that date for a Celtic boys football tournament . |