Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Majority opinion in the ILP was best expressed in the resolution moved on behalf of the Rugby Branch , which argued for continued affiliation on the basis of a satisfactory revision of Parliamentary Standing Orders . |
| 2 | By the application of good marine logic — tasting the water and finding it salty , then making sure the ebb — and flood-tides were of equal strength ( both tests which argued against this body of water being a river ) they realized that they had , indeed , discovered the way through . |
| 3 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 4 | " Land and Liberty " became the name of an amorphous political movement which operated in various parts of the Russian Empire between 1861 and 1863 and strove to convert the radicalism engendered by the emancipation into action . |
| 5 | Their claim , which failed in two Courts of Inquiry , continued to fester . |
| 6 | Members of the Pre-School playgroups Association ( PPA ) in Wales ( which became in independent association in 1987 ) are so convinced of each family 's right to choice of provision for their children that they have taken positive steps to make this possible . |
| 7 | When the Prince of Asturias put a candle in his window to start a riot against his father , he called into existence a process which led through constitutional monarchy to a democratic republic . |
| 8 | In Indonesia a large part of the argument which led on two occasions to undeclared war turned on the federal nature of the new state . |
| 9 | 29 patients who had CTs at local hospitals had to be re-examined by CT ( 25 ) or ultrasonography ( 4 ) at the National Radium Hospital , which led to major alteration of management in 4 . |
| 10 | The increased range and penetration of government activity , the tendency for specialised administrative departments to function with little political control , the growing complexity in the affairs of trade unions and other voluntary organisations which led to greater dependence upon professional experts — all these made it imperative that the general public should be better informed than ever before . |
| 11 | Which led to all sorts of strange behaviour . |
| 12 | This was a policy which led to many disagreements with his timid employers , and he waged a vigorous guerrilla campaign against the prudery and philistinism of the BBC hierarchy . |
| 13 | This dismal monumentalism is the apotheosis of impersonality , a confirmation rather than a denial of the mindset which led to such slaughter in the first place , though the architect intended no irony . |
| 14 | The pictures which led to such demand for the Daily Mirror that the Sold Out signs went up at newsagents all over the country . |
| 15 | The results formed a report which was out within a month , and which led to far-reaching changes in our company 's approach to the problem . |
| 16 | But recurrent harvest failures , the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891 , imposed severe hardship on many . |
| 17 | In April the government landed troops in the north of Bougainville , which led to increased clashes with the BRA . |
| 18 | The introduction of a financial quota system inevitably placed unprecedented responsibilities on most branches and student groups to make tangible contributions to support their activities , and those of the District , which led to predictable objections from some branches and to genuine difficulty in meeting the allocated quotas in a few instances . |
| 19 | The so-called " Son of Sam law " , which was passed in 1977 and which led to similar legislation in 34 other US states , was unanimously adjudged to contravene the country 's constitutional guarantee of freedom of free speech . |
| 20 | It is the first time the Service has explained its stand in the dispute , which led to serious disturbances among loyalist inmates in the Maze . |
| 21 | There was a failure to invest , an inability to sustain science which led to renewed talk of a ‘ brain drain' of British scientists to American and other campuses , an inherent suspicion and division which prevented effective collaboration in industry . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , rapid economic development , which led to real income per head tripling during the 1960s and quintupling again during the 1970s , strengthened private economic interests . |
| 23 | One way out of this dilemma was to adopt conventions which led to definite formulae without worrying too much about how close they were to nature ; and this was proposed by the French chemist Charles Gerhardt in the middle of the century . |
| 24 | Presidents Ford and Carter issued energy-saving orders which led to substantial savings by the federal government , the nation 's biggest energy consumer . |
| 25 | The government began the attempt to extricate itself after a critical report by the Audit Commission in 1986 , which led to comprehensive reviews of community care policies ( Audit Commission 1986 ; Griffith 1988 ) . |
| 26 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was the crown 's desire to spend , and Parliament 's desire to limit the tax burden , which led to regular conflicts between the king and Parliament . |
| 27 | He was a conscientious and hard worker , filled with a sense of mission which led to some misinterpretation by the Whig-Liberal group . |
| 28 | Significantly , it was the consul with a Greek surname , Q. Publilius Philo , who was entrusted with the drive into Campania which led to this pact in 326 . |
| 29 | While admitting that it was originally the understatement of German earnings which led to this move by the German analysts , in this we nevertheless have a model on which to work . |
| 30 | The practices concerned had 129000 registered patients and carried out 413 – 9000 consultations , which led to 17121 referrals to a named hospital in one year . |