Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One room could be filled entirely with keyboards , which operated by punching coded perforations on to a roll of paper ribbon . |
| 2 | Williams 's other hope , Pond Pavarotti , which qualified by finishing third on Friday , will again be racing against 7–1 shot Glengar Ranger . |
| 3 | According to Southwood , phytophagy arose from both saprophagy , the consumption of decaying or at least dying plants , and from feeding on fallen propagules including spores and pollen grains , which led to living on the strobili themselves , a route followed by the extinct insect orders , Dictyoneurida and Diaphanopterida . |
| 4 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 5 | It was clear that … fudge proposals from the Argentinians which amounted to saying ‘ We 've done what we 've done now let's negotiate from here ’ were quite unacceptable and it was clear that the task force had to land and do its bit . |
| 6 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 7 | After that arduous battle , which succeeded in breaking Italian resistance in Eritrea , Winchester went on to serve in Abyssinia and the Western Desert . |
| 8 | Sphinx Tours claims that it has lost revenue as a result of the campaign mounted by the Malta Ornithological Society , which succeeded in persuading the Egyptian government to place restrictions on the shooting of small birds . |
| 9 | Which is a great pity , because if one cuts out all the Freudian claptrap , Abse has produced a brilliant character analysis of the Prime Minister , and of the whole Thatcher phenomenon , which succeeded in scaring the wits out of me . |
| 10 | Two attempts to rescue him failed , but in July his former confessor Thomas Dunheved led a band which succeeded in freeing him . |
| 11 | Similarly , in her study of variation between the conditional , imperfect subjunctive , present indicative and future indicative in the verbs of si clauses in Buenos Aires Spanish , Lavandera developed a set of interview questions ( for example , ‘ Under what conditions would you feel happier than you presently are ? ’ ) which succeeded in eliciting a high proportion of clauses expressing unreal conditions ( Lavandera 1975 ; 1978a ; 1982 ) . |
| 12 | During the municipal elections in Rome [ see above ] , Marco Pannella , a prominent PRI deputy [ see p. 35989 ] , had stood as a candidate for the Anti-prohibitionist Party , which succeeded in securing only one seat . |
| 13 | At special laboratories built in Los Alamos in the New Mexico desert , John R Oppenheimer led a team which succeeded in making an atomic bomb . |
| 14 | Overshadowing December 1992 were three years of recession ; unemployment , and the fear of unemployment , as the numbers edged towards three million ; and the terrorist activities of the IRA , which succeeded in keeping many people out of city centres . |
| 15 | Over hundreds of millions of years , as species evolved , they developed better designed hearts with extra chambers which succeeded in separating blood-borne oxygen on its way to the muscles or fins , and back again . |
| 16 | The Sporting Life , which was essentially a racing-paper , had a circulation of 300,000 by the 1880s and the Athletic News , a weekly journal begun from Manchester in 1875 , which concentrated on providing a wide range of football match reports ‘ was soon claiming 100 ‘ 000 . |
| 17 | Unlike the employment White Paper , which concentrated on varying public investment to counterbalance changes in private investment and consumption , Beveridge wanted to regulate all three . |
| 18 | The film , which concentrated on depicting the ‘ real ’ ghetto Jew behind the ‘ mask of assimilation ’ , and , using trick photography , likened the migrations of Jews to the spread of a plague of bacillus-carrying rats , closed ‘ in shining contrast ’ , as the film programme put it , with a clip from Hitler 's Reichstag speech of 30 January 1939 , ‘ prophesying ’ the annihilation of Jewry . |
| 19 | Some of the most effective parts of the Marshall plan were precisely those which concentrated on improving public policy , company management , the use of investment , and output per person . |
| 20 | Criteria were divided between two types : primary ( child care ) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home ; and secondary ( disclosure ) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children 's and young people 's disclosures . |
| 21 | As I recall , the grand swell of opposition which occurred with regard to abandoning the classes of corporate membership and allowing self-advertisement by members of a professional body was not heeded . |
| 22 | A useful rule of documentaries is that re-creations of scenes which occurred before filming always leave the viewer feeling cheated . |
| 23 | A man died and a woman was seriously injured in a stolen car which crashed after catapulting six feet off the ground into a telegraph pole . |
| 24 | Their initial response to the growth of crime , which stemmed from rising unemployment and inequality , was heavy-handed and militaristic . |
| 25 | He had a fine sense of theatrical timing , which helped in publicizing his ventures . |
| 26 | However , I received comments from members of our Executive and Branch Committees which helped in drafting our response . |
| 27 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 28 | I 'm glad to say it was a business-like meeting which focussed on clarifying what action should be taken by the European Community on furthering Coastal Zone Management , particularly in the context of its 5th Action Programme . |
| 29 | Moreover , Don Juan 's sympathies lay with the Allies , which contributed to making his followers in Spain believe that they could look to the Western democracies in general , and to Great Britain in particular , for support . |
| 30 | All of which contributed to making happier Q.T. days . |