Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] at the " in BNC.

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31 It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war .
32 An earlier film by Raphael , The Persuaders ( 1986 ) , charted the transformation of Ricki into Rytasha , which occurred at the Hare Krishna Temple in London , and her uneasy relationship with her guru there .
33 Whereas in the Ruhr Coal Basin i.e. at the southern margin of the N.W. German Basin , this first coalification was the only one ( in places at least the predominant one ) because , there , the coal reached its deepest level of subsidence and its highest rock temperature before the Asturian folding ( which occurred at the boundary between Westphalian D and Stephanian ) , this late Variscan folding combined with an uplift of the Carboniferous , was much less intense further to the north .
34 I explained in my statement in the annual report about the management reorganisation which occurred at the end of nineteen eighty nine .
35 For , as we shall see , it is a remarkable and essential transformation , one which occurred at the beginning of human culture but which , in some subsequent cultures — possibly even in the modern world — could undergo retransformation back again into what it originally had been — an external tyranny .
36 No-one was hurt in the incident , which occurred at the Mihama plant near Fukui , some 220 miles west of Tokyo .
37 It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation .
38 It was further provided by Statute that , in supplying a vacancy occurring during the sitting of Parliament , the burgh which presided at the election of the former member should preside at the new election .
39 In normal embryos this surface polarity is indicative of a profound reorganization of the embryo which develops at the 8-cell stage and is thought to underlie the process of cell divergence ( 2 ) .
40 But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class .
41 Unfortunately , I fell on the gravel , severely grazing my knee and , what was worse , ruining one of my two pairs of stockings — nasty rayon objects which sagged at the knees and cost precious clothing coupons .
42 Nevertheless , a second movement which erupted at the end of the 1880s was wholly unexpected .
43 Another case that , because of the genius of Gerard Manley Hopkins , has in retrospect become better known , is that of the loss of the Deutschland , which sank at the mouth of the Thames in December 1875 .
44 A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year .
45 Below we include a brief extract from this study which looks at the problems and consequences of conviction for the business , ‘ respectable ’ criminal in comparison to the regular criminal — bearing in mind , of course , that the business criminal is far less likely to be convicted that most other types of criminal .
46 Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience .
47 The therapeutic objective of holding the mirror up to nature and confronting people with themselves is further explored in the final section of the book , which looks at the wider implications of drama in secure settings and its role in therapy .
48 Modern art is catered for with The Sixties Scene in London by David Mellor ( no relation to Britain 's erstwhile Heritage Minister of that name ) ( £29.95 ) and , most topically , Understanding Hypermedia by Bob Cotton and Richard Oliver ( £25.95 ) which looks at the impact of computer-generated imagery on contemporary art and design .
49 In practice , since philosophy often proceeds by paying attention to past philosophers and their ideas , the two categories overlapped to some extent with each other , and with a third category , political philosophy , which looks at the political philosophers in the light of the practice and experiences of feminist politics ( see Okin , 1980 ; Elshtain , 1981 ; O'Brien , 1981 ) .
50 Airlife have produced a revised edition of the Microlight Flying Manual , that seminal tome by Ron Campbell and John Jones which looks at the aeronautical world strictly from the perspective of pilots who are aiming at a Group D licence .
51 She suggests a synthesis between the two approaches which looks at the diversity of girls ' educational experiences , and the ways in which schoolchildren challenge class and gender controls .
52 Another useful study , which looks at the implications of demographic trends for a range of different activities at the national level , is Ermisch ( 1983 ) .
53 A slightly different but very stimulating approach also originating from earlier experience of chronological change is a review of Recent Earth History ( Vita-Finzi , 1973 ) which looks at the record particularly of the last 20,000 years and at methods of dating and clearly argues that :
54 It is a history of social policy which looks at the birth of a new idea and its institutional location .
55 example A dissertation which looks at the relation between the spread of tourism in the countryside in the eighteenth century and the development of a new style of " countryside " poetry as exemplified in Wordsworth and Coleridge 's Lyrical Ballads published near the end of that century .
56 Finally tonight , news of a two-part report beginning tomorrow , which looks at the history of the Gloucestershire Regiment .
57 Erm it , and as they sa , and as she says this tends to be er a description of a gypsy camps campsite which looks at the external surroundings of the caravans , but it does n't actually look inside the caravan .
58 In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven .
59 In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven .
60 But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before .
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