Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ .
2 , mill manager at that time , is pictured third from left , front row , immediately in front of ( wearing glasses ) of which owned at that time .
3 To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case .
4 According to Ibn Hajar , Molla Fenari seems to have ignored a number of invitations to audiences with the sultan , but was finally present at an audience to celebrate the Prophet 's birthday , held , according to al-Makrizi , on Friday 7 Rabi " I. Molla Fenari , who was seated below the shaykh of the Mu'ayyadiyya , Ibn al-Dayri , took no part in the learned debate which occurred at that audience but was later present at a private audience with the sultan , when the two conversed .
5 He was as usual training his sights exclusively on the goal currently in view , in this case the unification of South Africa , the kindergarten campaign for which seemed at that moment to require a concession to Afrikaner racial prejudice .
6 There was nothing in the section or elsewhere which prohibited different courts on different occasions from making orders which in aggregate exceeded 240 hours , and there was nothing in Evans which conflicted with that conclusion .
7 Shell sand , blown into the area between Caniçal and the end of the island in recent geological times , contains fossil shells and root- and branch-shaped concretions of the vegetation which existed at that time .
8 LOTHIAN REGION opened for business in 1975 and can trace its roots back to the local authorities which existed before that date .
9 William Stukeley , though , considered the church to be situated on the north side of All Saints Street and he drew a sketch of a fifteenth-century door which survived at that time .
10 Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem .
11 For Churchill had made his famous " Iron Curtain " speech on 5 March , and these were countries which lay beyond that barrier .
12 This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure .
13 It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’
14 All the energy and drive which gave to that campaign so electric a character in the first weeks of this year must find outlets for the same fundamental objectives in new , and yet familiar channels .
15 These strategies included the formation of complex households , containing several nuclear family units , as a response to the severe economic pressures which prevailed at that time ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 77–8 ) .
16 The paper dated 15 February 1983 before the works committee which resolved on that date to grant permission , contains a reference to the number of lorries anticipated at the Gillingham Gate daily and under the same heading ‘ Traffic-Safety and Freeflow ’ has a different entry from the one I have referred to .
17 As he candidly admitted in his memoirs the issue of capital punishment , which re-surfaced in that year at the Conservative Party Conference , and his own handling of the debate , damaged his standing as Home Secretary , making it more difficult to introduce some planned reforms in sentencing policy :
18 What got in that loft Mark ?
19 Unfortunately this is the way the Tory always play their ploys on Highfield , they always think they are the champions of Highfield issue unfortunately they do not know what transpired in that area , they do not know the deprivation in that area .
20 Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic .
21 What happened about that takeover ? ’
22 We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial .
23 Write a detailed account of what happened during that period of the activity .
24 Well let's talk about precisely what happened at that meeting yesterday .
25 You saw that film , you saw what happened to that person .
26 Some of us said that we would keep an eye on what happened to that Act in the years that followed .
27 What happened to that project , I wonder ?
28 What happened to that ship , Sir Brian ? ’
29 I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’
30 They did n't realize that 's how the Spanish Armada was described and look what happened to that lot . ’
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