Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steam narrowboats which operated from the Midlands to London could carry only 12 tons but could tow an unpowered ‘ butty ’ boat behind . |
| 2 | An alternative , which operated in the UK from 1925 — 31 , is that the central bank is not prepared to convert banknotes into gold for domestic residents but is willing to convert such paper into gold for foreigners . |
| 3 | A committed member of the circle of reformers which centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , he spent four years in the second half of the 1850s investigating the financial procedures of various west European countries and the United States . |
| 4 | Three congressional panels and the Justice Department were conducting the investigations , which opened in mid-May , and which centred on the HUD 's Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Programme . |
| 5 | More than two hundred officers took part in the operation which centred on the Toxteth area of the city . |
| 6 | A crewman in Samoa , which passed through the Sunda Straits shortly after the eruption , described seeing bodies and pumice stretching all the way to the horizon . |
| 7 | The Fields were the scene of the mass meeting of the Protestant Association on 2 July 1780 , which led to the Gordon Riots ( see GORDON , LORD GEORGE ) , BR 48 . |
| 8 | Chamorro , 60 , was the widow of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro , whose murder in 1978 had sparked off events which led to the Sandinista revolution and the overthrow of the Somoza regime in July 1979 . |
| 9 | The more interesting question is whether Keynes 's greater influence was over Britain 's international financial policy through his dominant role in the negotiations which led to the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 and to the American loan of 1945 . |
| 10 | It was one of these translating jobs which led to the Encyclopedie . |
| 11 | As we shall see , it was one of the factors which led to the US nuclear industry 's virtual demise . |
| 12 | The consequence of the reduction had been to put resignalling work around Waterloo — which led to the Clapham disaster — two months behind schedule . |
| 13 | It included new restrictions on covert action which were designed to prevent a repetition of the actions which led to the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 14 | At the time in August 1990 , Iraq was invading Kuwait , which led to the Gulf war . |
| 15 | Captain Cook discovered New South Wales in 1770 and in that same year , hack in Britain , Lord North became Prime Minister but strong opposition by Colonialists in America to the imposition of tea-tax , developed in 1773 , which led to the Boston Harbour incident in the following year , and eventually to the American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1782 . |
| 16 | The safety breaches were similar to those which led to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 . |
| 17 | In an attempt to prevent any repetition of the campaign which led to the Bork 's rejection , the Bush administration — together with Thomas 's supporters in Congress , led by Danforth — undertook an intensive lobbying campaign in his favour . |
| 18 | Some of the older women might stop for an aperitivo after window-shopping in Via Cavour , which led into the Piazza . |
| 19 | Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue . |
| 20 | A separate tier of authorisation is through Recognised Professional Bodies ( RPBs ) for professional organisations which applied to the SIB to be able to authorise their members to give investment advice which is incidental to their main area of business . |
| 21 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee can not get SMP . |
| 22 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee is not entitled to SMP . |
| 23 | No-one was hurt in the incident , which occurred at the Mihama plant near Fukui , some 220 miles west of Tokyo . |
| 24 | The case was seen as demonstrating the legal difficulties involved in using the judicial system of unified Germany to deal with cases which occurred under the East German legal system . |
| 25 | One visitor to India reported on just such an event which occurred in the Bombay presidency at the end of Victoria 's reign : |
| 26 | The conference heard that out of 732 post-mortem examinations — on victims of the Air India Boeing which crashed into the Atlantic near Cork , Zeebrugge , Piper Alpha , Lockerbie and Kegworth — 80.22 per cent of identifications had been through dentistry records . |
| 27 | NO ‘ airworthiness abnormality ’ affected the Super Puma helicopter which crashed in the North Sea earlier this month with the loss of 11 lives including a North-East man , a preliminary accident report said yesterday . |
| 28 | It involved Avro Tudor G-AKBY which crashed in the Llandow circuit on March 20 , 1950 . |
| 29 | INVESTIGATORS have determined that an explosion destroyed the UTA DC-10 which crashed in the Sahara Desert on 19 September , killing all 171 people on board , but there is no evidence that a bomb was responsible . |
| 30 | Businessman Ravi was in so much pain he cancelled his booking on the doomed airbus — which crashed in the Himalayas killing 113 people . |