Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " 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 | Black people are now moving back to the People 's National Movement , which ruled for 30 years before Mr Robinson came to power . |
| 4 | In 1983 , for example , there were ‘ radical ’ authorities of the ‘ Left ’ ( such as the GLC ) , as well as of the ‘ Right ’ ( such as Wandsworth ) , which operated with particular local distinctiveness . |
| 5 | It was certainly something which operated on two unusually distinct levels . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For instance , the well-known Farmington Plan , which operated from 1948 to 1972 , was a voluntary agreement between 60 American libraries to acquire at least one copy of each new foreign publication that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker . |
| 8 | " 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 . |
| 9 | The coal companies that won the contracts to operate in the Dukeries were experienced in the organization of large workforces which operated in difficult conditions and were potentially prone to industrial unrest . |
| 10 | also relied on the reluctance of Viscount Simonds expressed in In re ‘ Wonderland , ’ Cleethorpes [ 1965 ] A.C. 58 , 70–71 , to construe an ambiguity in a statute in a manner which derogated from common law rights . |
| 11 | The first wave of Manichaeism swept over the Levant and Asia Minor in the third and fourth centuries — Bogomilism was the first manifestation of a neo-Manichaean movement which penetrated into southern and western Europe between the ninth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 12 | But Pond Pavarotti , which qualified in third place , is up against second favourite to win the classic , Glengar Ranger , and another top notcher , Taringar Bay . |
| 13 | Fifty or sixty parents were present , and were talking in nervous or gushing little groups which centred on one or other of the teachers . |
| 14 | Polls in most states open today at 6am local time , which translated into British time means 11am for New York and 2pm for California . |
| 15 | The critics were more enthusiastic about Dustin 's performance as the eccentric clerk than about the play , which limped through eleven performances , although it and Dustin won Obie awards — off-Broadway 's equivalent of the Tony . |
| 16 | So United States courts have declared invalid service which met the requirements of state law or of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but which did not meet the terms of the convention and a Netherlands court has refused to grant exequatur to a Belgian judgment granted after service which complied with Belgian law but not the convention 's requirements . |
| 17 | When Laura came to stay , and swept into church in an Easter bonnet of her own devising which quivered with artificial lilac , and laughed out loud at a tiny joke in Peter 's sermon , to encourage him , one of the churchwardens wrote to the Bishop . |
| 18 | The oldest known tree was a bristlecone pine in Nevada which lived for 5100 years . |
| 19 | Iranian oil sales to the United States , which ceased in 1987 , were officially resumed on June 11 following approval by the US Treasury for US oil companies to purchase 2,500,000 barrels of Iranian crude oil worth an estimated US$35-40,000,000 . |
| 20 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 21 | Their claim , which failed in two Courts of Inquiry , continued to fester . |
| 22 | A major shareholder in the Northumberland and Durham District Bank , which failed in 1857 , he managed to avert the closure of the Derwent Ironworks Co. which owed the Bank £1,000,000 . |
| 23 | Table 1 lists the 31 fully listed industrial and distribution companies which failed in 1990 and 1991 , one in 25 of all such firms . |
| 24 | What I saw was staggering for the line which passed through those three points apparently intersected three others — a standing stone , just off the Marlborough Road , a bi-section of two round barrows — the line passed cleanly through the narrow gap between them , and finally the most important of all — the west end of the West Kennet long barrow . |
| 25 | First , in many cases the previous foreign owners of those companies which passed into local ownership , either private or state , were invited to continue as managers for which they received a management fee . |
| 26 | Muscle strips were maintained under a tension of 3 g , which produced near optimal contraction and experiments were commenced after a stabilisation period of two hours , which was found necessary in preliminary studies to ensure consistent muscle performance . |
| 27 | One exception was a collaboration with Wilhelm Weber which produced in 1833 the first operating electric telegraph . |
| 28 | The religious political factor was merely one of several major recurring problems during Barbarossa 's reign , all of which interacted with one another . |
| 29 | He showed that it was possible , starting with a uniform concentration of chemicals which interacted with each other , for the system to develop differences in the concentration of the chemicals , which he called morphogens , such that there would be chemical waves with peaks and troughs of concentration of the morphogens . |
| 30 | In the background to this central theme in his thought lie two major influences upon him which interacted with each other and with the impulses derived from Kant . |