Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 .
2 The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century .
3 Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies .
4 France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues .
5 A petition signed by 115 leading personalities , requesting the King to appoint a 1,300-1,500 member National Assembly , drew widespread opposition from the main political parties which claimed that it would drag the monarchy into politics .
6 The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest .
7 Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports .
8 The bill was passed despite fierce opposition from the white commercial farming community which warned that it would transform productive commercial farms into subsistence smallholdings and could turn Zimbabwe from a food exporter to an importer .
9 Reports indicated that US pressure to grant associate membership to the Soviet Union had been opposed by Germany , which feared that it would delay granting the Soviet Union full IMF membership .
10 The move was welcomed by the ANC which said that it would co-operate fully with them .
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