Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1978 the Mariana Islands ( excluding Guam ) had opted for status as a self-governing commonwealth of the USA , and in 1982 the FSM and the Marshall Islands had signed compacts of free association which provided for internal sovereignty and US economic support in return for continuing US control of their defence and foreign policies . |
| 2 | ( Even with the economy-wide agreements in Sweden in the 1983 negotiations no settlement could be arrived at with the union side which insisted upon separate industry level negotiations being conducted . ) |
| 3 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 4 | They name the side which lost to Danish club Slangerup last week . |
| 5 | He had paid very little attention to the section of the survey briefing which dealt with native flora and fauna . |
| 6 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 7 | As the House will be aware , on 29 November , three child care officers formerly employed by Leicestershire county council were convicted on extremely serious charges of sexual assault and other acts of violence which occurred in three Leicestershire children 's homes between 1973 and 1986 . |
| 8 | The ES servers double the capacity of the previous top-end MIServer which came with 12 CPUs . |
| 9 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |
| 10 | MENSA , the organisation for people with very high IQs , started an investment club which bought from one sharedealer an American OTC stock Biotech Capital Corporation . |
| 11 | Sitting in one corner of the moulded seat which ran round three sides of the cockpit , she bit into a sandwich , suddenly ravenous . |
| 12 | In order to create sufficient headroom within the studio , it was necessary to remove an existing tie-beam which spanned between two timber posts that helped to support the roof structure and to adapt and re-site this member at a higher level , just below the soffit of the ceiling ( Plate 11 ) . |
| 13 | But Clifford Barnett , the head of the anthropology department which voted in closed session last week to expel Mosher from his PhD candidature , denies that the department was subjected to any pressure . |
| 14 | Another question was ridiculous , about a spider 's weight which increased to 500 g . |
| 15 | Japan was both militarily and economically vulnerable and the lack of outside support for her resistance to great power domination reinforced a sense of national isolation which originated in national myth , grew in the seclusion period and was strengthened by an awareness of the cultural divide between Japan and the West . |
| 16 | … not noise , but something more like an invisible hammer which smacked into both ears at once . |
| 17 | It was the failure to incorporate the catholic — nationalist remnant into the consensus of the Northern statelet which resulted in sporadic violence , institutionalized and structural on the one side and insurgent-guerilla on the other . |
| 18 | This was the prelude to an aggressive baton charge by police in full riot gear which resulted in seventy-three arrests ( Geary , 1985:135 ) . |
| 19 | A strange courtship which blossomed during visiting hours and after letters were exchanged looks set to continue in similar mode for the foreseeable future . |
| 20 | Fifteen years of one-party rule ended formally on Nov. 30 when a new Constitution came into effect which provided for multiparty democracy and a free-market economy . |
| 21 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 22 | Poets were more likely to hold radical opinions toward the end of the century than in Stephen Duck 's time ; however , the following passage ( c. 1795 ) reveals a political consciousness which developed despite early patronage . |
| 23 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 24 | The first detachment of the Moors and foreign legionaires crossed from Morocco to the Spanish mainland on 19 July , an action which coincided with military revolts in Seville , Cadiz and Barcelona . |
| 25 | A suggested reason for this decision is that to grant an action would have subverted the common law negligence action which lay in these circumstances . |
| 26 | As a loyal party member , Nizan was prepared to follow a cultural itinerary which began in sectarian isolationism and ended in popular front co-operation . |
| 27 | When external treatment with tea-tree no longer produced any improvement ( after many months ) , the oil was given by mouth which resulted in further elimination of toxins . |
| 28 | Cakici and Chatterjee ( 1991 ) examined daily closing prices for the S&P500 from 1982 to 1987 , and compared the mispricings calculated using a no-arbitrage condition which allowed for stochastic interest rates and one which did not . |
| 29 | Can you can you tell me or have you got a pic , where does the picture usually go ? does it go right at the top or do you usually have a bit of headline what happened in that Mirror one there ? |
| 30 | The rich merchants contributed to the magnificent civic building which arose in those years ; the town and guild halls , exchanges , municipal belfries , warehouses and city houses . |