Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the actual implementation of this Christian philosophy often fell far short of these standards , and throughout the modern era we can trace a second layer , summed up in the phrase ‘ the double standard ’ , which enjoined chastity on the female while allowing a large degree of sexual freedom for the male . |
| 2 | Terms were agreed at Cirencester by which , it would seem , the western Saxons lost control of Cirencester and the lands along the Severn which became part of the territory of the Hwicce , so that the kingdom of the Hwicce has come to be regarded as a Mercian creation of the time of Penda . |
| 3 | The railway works at Crewe were built in 1843 for the Grand Junction Railway , which became part of the London and North Western Railway three years later . |
| 4 | In fact , power in many walks of life was delegated to members of the business elite and business organizations which became part of the state apparatus ( Miliband 1969 , pp. 87–96 ) . |
| 5 | He was a prosperous farmer who had sent his son to Balliol — a college which owned land in the parish — with the intention that he should eventually be ordained . |
| 6 | The Chimera , in classical Greek legend , was a monster , part lion , part dragon , part goat , which laid waste to the region of Lycia . |
| 7 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 8 | On 10 June I received a letter from Mr. , which made reference to the site meeting I held with you on 4 June , and then said , and I quote , ‘ the volunteers will carry out the resurfacing works on the Canal towing path … ’ ; ‘ after the works are completed … ’ ; ‘ the upgrading works carried out by your organisation will be to the benefit of all canal users ’ . |
| 9 | The nursery school used a modified version of the SOED questionnaire for Staff ( Nursery Form ) which made comparison with the parents ' views easier . |
| 10 | In such a view , ‘ Catholic ’ was simply a term which described part of the population . |
| 11 | During most of this same period , however , there existed within Anglicanism another more liberal and conciliatory tradition , which drew inspiration from the work of Richard Hooker and sought to minimize controversy by advocating a wide measure of toleration on questions of dogma and ceremony . |
| 12 | There was also an increased emphasis on productivity and better educational standards , which drew attention to the existence of people who could not look after themselves or sustain a normal education . |
| 13 | The Health Visitors ' Association ( HVA ) , which drew attention to the study , believes that alcohol should be banned from gripe water , or at the very least , a warning should be given on the bottle . |
| 14 | The successful revolt of 1746 , for example , which expelled an Austrian garrison from Genoa , expressed a powerful urban patriotism which drew strength from the city 's long republican tradition . |
| 15 | The machine could either stand on the threshing floor of an orthodox flail-threshing barn , which provided shelter from the weather , or it could be taken to the ricks in the fields . |
| 16 | We were shown the great marble slab covering Arthur 's coffin and the chalice well which provided water for the brothers . |
| 17 | The Denberies or Denes , were lands in the Weald which provided pannage for the herds of swine . |
| 18 | I can , for instance , recall an incident which provided interest to the customer , and much amusement for me . |
| 19 | A group of lesser Khans stood muttering in one corner of the room , and when Alexei came through the hangings which provided access to the bedchamber they fell guiltily silent . |
| 20 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 21 | Current models for BIF deposition typically invoke an anoxic deep ocean , enriched in ferrous iron , which provided iron to the surface through upwelling processes . |
| 22 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 23 | The eternal order which reflected the unchanging nature of God , and which found expression in the manner of God 's Redemption of the world , was also expressed in the traditions of individual churches down to the smallest details . |
| 24 | Mine host insisted upon introducing him to everyone , which helped identification at the cost of making him somewhat more conspicuous than he would have liked . |
| 25 | However , an amnesty law passed in 1978 , which granted immunity to the perpetrators of human rights violations , has been used by the courts to block full investigations into these cases . |
| 26 | There had been some earlier pioneers , notably Robert Sturmy of Bristol , who sent two ill-fated ventures there in 1446 and 1457 , the first ending in the wreck of his ship off Greece and the second in a spoliation by the Genoese , which provoked retaliation against the Genoese in England and the seizure of their goods . |
| 27 | It is possible that there was a connection between the idea of bird epiphanies and the sacred tree cult ; birds descending from the heavens as messengers or transformations of deities were seen to alight in trees , which conferred sanctity on the trees as the act suggested that the gods themselves had chosen the trees as their shrines . |
| 28 | It acknowledged that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of , for example , the tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other states . |
| 29 | It said that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other countries . |
| 30 | Psycho was a cross-legged Hindu figure , twenty-two inches high , which played whist with the audience . |