Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 32 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
| 33 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 34 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 35 | Initially , the great masses of floating pumice which had piled up on the sea made it difficult for ships to force their way through the water — rafts three metres thick were reported in places — but eventually parties were able to reach the islands and determine what changes had taken place . |
| 36 | The fears which had crawled back over the stockade of his new self were banished : he was unassailable on the rock of Hause Point — what could harm him but Death which here would be no great enemy ? |
| 37 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 38 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 39 | Exactly opposite Grace a heap of crates which had driven up through the bends and reaches , twenty miles from Gravesend , was at rest in the slack water , enchanted apparently , not moving an inch one way or the other . |
| 40 | Many of the older people found it difficult to throw off the ‘ criminal , associations which had carried over from the fifties and sixties . |
| 41 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 42 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 43 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 44 | At 0748hrs Zeros and Val dive-bombers which had taken off from the Soryu attacked . |
| 45 | The fighting , which had died down during the night , flared again as dawn came , and US Cobra gunships began to fly over Panama City . |
| 46 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 47 | As before , he disguised himself in beggar 's clothes , and hobbled into the village which had sprung up around the river of wine . |
| 48 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 49 | The same thing with pre-West End shows — quite often , I mean for instance , there was a show at the Apollo about six months ago which was Lettuce and Lovage , er which had come out of the West End and was doing a big tour . |
| 50 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 51 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 52 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 53 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |
| 54 | These social movements express new forms of social struggle , which have arisen out of the relative failure of other sectors of society to make significant changes and out of changing socio-economic conditions . |
| 55 | Those health authorities which express most interest in refining formulas by varying the factors included tend to be those which have lost out with the current formula . |
| 56 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |
| 57 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 58 | Rather we are looking at those beliefs , supported by significant power bases within each bloc , which have won out in the political process in the past seventy years and still appear to be doing so , in some cases with much decreased vitality . |
| 59 | Dust invariably contains pathogens which have settled out of the atmosphere . |
| 60 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |