Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all my time here I ‘ ve had the final say on the many , many , decisions which concerned playing matters . |
| 2 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 3 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 4 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 5 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 6 | Those countries which agreed to eliminate subsidies were awarded increased shares in the US import market . |
| 7 | Both Venables and Sugar attended a 90-minute board meeting at the club which agreed to dismiss Ashby , an alleged undischarged bankrupt . |
| 8 | Although she made little initial impact in England , her scheme gained influential support in Scotland where it was adopted by the Scottish Education Department which agreed to give School Boards ‘ choice of employment ’ powers under the Education ( Scotland ) Act 1908 . |
| 9 | Water sharing talks were held in Vienna on May 13-14 , chaired by Austria , and attended by more than 30 delegations , which agreed to meet again later in the year to discuss a number of issues including the creation of an international data-base on water , cross-border co-operation , methods of water management and ways to increase water resources . |
| 10 | The accommodationist states including Jordan , in order to satisfy domestic opinion — in Jordan 's case its East Bank Palestinian population — felt obliged to move into a common ‘ steadfastness ’ stance with the more radical Arab states , most of which agreed to pay money into a Jordanian-PLO Joint Fund for Steadfastness . |
| 11 | The foundation of the package was an accord with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions ( NZCTU ) which agreed to limit pay claims to 2 per cent , plus possible rises based on productivity . |
| 12 | Right , moving on to item four which agreed to consider a term following plan applications . |
| 13 | A panel of households was recruited , all of which agreed to buy their tea through the research firm for three months . |
| 14 | After hearing of Mr Hindmarch 's case he had contacted the firm , which agreed to send on the units . |
| 15 | The accounting convention which divided spending into revenue ( current ) and capital expenditure was particularly susceptible to manipulation . |
| 16 | Absent among the original signatories of the Warsaw Treaty , concluded in 1955 [ see pp. 14249-51 ] , were Albania , which withdrew in 1968 [ see p , 22944 ] , and East Germany which ceased to exist on its unification with West Germany in October 1990 [ see pp. 37761-63 ] . |
| 17 | This is well illustrated by Willesden High School in North London , which in recent times produced both Phillip DeFreitas and Chris Lewis , but which ceased to play cricket four years ago . |
| 18 | Every child knows that a country which ceased to work , I will not say for a year , but for a few weeks , would die . |
| 19 | * ‘ The last major wooden ( actually composite ) passenger sailing ship seems to have been Torrenns which ceased carrying passengers to Adelaide in 1903 . |
| 20 | The official receiver has been called into the firm , which ceased trading last June . |
| 21 | MK Trafford Holdings failed in a takeover bid for Manchester United , which failed to float on the stock market as well as the pitch . |
| 22 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently looking into the disappearance of three Egyptian antiquities , shipped to the Merrin Gallery in Manhattan from the Cleveland Museum of art on 1 October , but which failed to arrive . |
| 23 | ‘ I had a curious strain of not attending to things which failed to grip my interest . ’ |
| 24 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 25 | In retrospect , it can be seen that NORP was a poorly planned venture which failed to take account of the poor infrastructure of Bangladesh and the vastness of the problem that it was meant to tackle . |
| 26 | If the reason you left nursing in the first place was boredom or disillusionment , it may be that you had drifted into an environment which failed to take advantage of your best qualities . |
| 27 | In many Third World countries national liberation movements which failed to create effective political parties were either taken over by military elites or else the governments which they formed were overthrown by military coups . |
| 28 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 29 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 30 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |