Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [been] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission voted on Nov. 26 , 1990 , to suspend the four-year-old subsidy system which had been available to EC shipbuilders to encourage them to compete against cheaper products from South Korea or Japan . |
| 2 | Meanwhile member countries sought to agree on measures to introduce a single internal market within the EC by Jan. 1 , 1993 , as agreed under the Single European Act which had been effective since July 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 34107-08 for terms ] . |
| 3 | This was an unusually clear and succinct statement of assumptions which had been current for generations . |
| 4 | The immediate cause of his first campaign was to support the town of Lodi , which had been subject to control by Milan . |
| 5 | On Oct. 3 , the second anniversary of German unification , several thousand people took part in a protest against xenophobia at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp , which had been fire-bombed in September [ see pp. 39111-12 ] . |
| 6 | The first major film to deal with Vietnam was John Wayne 's The Green Berets ( 1968 ) about the US Army Special Forces units , which had been present in Vietnam in an advisory capacity since 1957 . |
| 7 | In what was presented as action to protect its foreign exchange reserves ( which had fallen to $5,600 million according to government sources ) the government on July 5 , 1989 , informed the " Paris Club " group of creditors that it was temporarily deferring payment of $812,000,000 in interest which had been due on June 30 and July 3 . |
| 8 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 9 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |
| 10 | The uprising continued along the same lines as the bread riots which had been rife in Russia at that time and so the Tsarina was worried but thinks everything will be alright and informed the Tsar , who was away inspecting troops , to this effect . |
| 11 | Even in France , which had been permissive over books and plays , films were treated surprisingly strictly . |
| 12 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 13 | Towards the end of the service , which had been full of praise and thanksgiving to God , the minister talked to them particularly . |
| 14 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 15 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 16 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 17 | As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead . |
| 18 | The South African Communist Party ( SACP — which had been unbanned in February ) was formally relaunched as a legal organization at a rally on July 29 [ see below ] , amid controversy over allegations that it had conspired with the ANC 's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe to use violence to overthrow the government if the current negotiations were to break down . |
| 19 | Only then did they discover what had been wrong with Edna Popple from 31 St George 's Road , Solihull , Birmingham . |