Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Psittacidae , he always claimed , was ‘ the first book of the kind drawn on stone in England of so large a size , & … one which led to all Mr Gould 's improvements . ’ |
| 3 | The 25 May 1790 Odiham minutes refer to a London committee , of which Huntingford was secretary , and which met at 10 Welbeck Street . |
| 4 | The Scottish Jacobites withdrew themselves from the Scottish Convention which met on 14 March 1689 , and as a result the settlement north of the border was worked out predominantly by Whigs . |
| 5 | On 11th May the Bill was given a Second Reading and referred to a Select Committee , which met on 10th July with Molesworth as Chairman . |
| 6 | A new attempt was made by Hodge to promote cooperation between the right , centre and non-communist left in June and July 1946 with the establishment of the Left-Right Coalition Committee ( CC ) , which met on 22 July . |
| 7 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 8 | The Central Committee plenum , which met on 19–20 September 1989 , approved the Platform with minor changes and more generally sought to define the party 's line in an area in which its decisions had been inadequate and for the most part purely reactive . |
| 9 | The economic situation and the persistence of unemployment did help but the most obvious factor pushing Labour forward was the General Strike , which occurred between 3–12 May 1926 . |
| 10 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | While North Korea found itself increasingly isolated by the momentous changes which occurred in Eastern Europe in 1989 , its relationship with China remained close [ for unofficial visit to Beijing by Kim Il Sung , politburo member Ho Dam and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam in November 1989 see p. 37041 ] . |
| 12 | It is the rising which has become known as ‘ the Peasants ’ Revolt' without any further qualification and has been seen as the most serious social revolt which occurred in medieval England . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Through the initiative of a Belgian , Cynrik de Decker , seven members of 90 Squadron Association have attended a ceremony of remembrance to the seven crew of Stirling EH907 ( WP-O ) which crashed on 4 July 1943 . |
| 15 | Malaysia , and to a lesser extent Indonesia , expressed concern at a November agreement which provided for increased US use of Singapore 's military facilities . |
| 16 | These were two of the points made in the opinion delivered at the end of April by the Advocate General to the European Court of Justice in relation to four test cases to clarify an earlier ECJ watershed case on equal pension rights , Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange , which found on 17 May 1990 that Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome on equal pay applied to pension benefits . |
| 17 | A political scandal which erupted in late December resulted in the removal from the Cabinet Percival Patterson , the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning , in a Cabinet reshuffle announced on Dec. 31 . |
| 18 | The Chanak crisis , which erupted in late September , drove Baldwin to the newsstands of Aix for the first time . |
| 19 | The UN Security Council ultimatum , which came amidst renewed US threats of a military offensive against Iraq [ see p. 38307 ] , had been handed to government officials by a delegation of UN weapons inspectors who arrived in Baghdad on June 30 . |
| 20 | Although pre-occupied with planning the invasion of the continent of Europe ( Operation Overlord ) which came on 6 June 1944 , Winston Churchill devoted his attention to a matter which must have seemed far removed from the great events by which he was surrounded . |
| 21 | Henry I shored up his doubtful claim by marrying a princess of the English royal line ; what Stephen has lost in warfare , Henry II recaptured owing to a series of successful marriages — those of his parents , which united a claim to all the territory of Henry I with Anjou , and his own , which added to these Aquitaine , that is to say , some title to most of southern France . |
| 22 | An organization calling itself the Mujahidin Kashmir claimed responsibility for planting bombs which exploded at two New Delhi police stations on April 10 , injuring nine policemen . |
| 23 | The first ship to discharge at the new facility was the S.S. Ebbrix , a small vessel owned by T. R. Rix & Sons Ltd. of Hull which arrived on 23rd August . |
| 24 | The first vessel to load at the new facility was the ‘ Secil Angola ’ which arrived on 27th April to load 3945 tonnes . |
| 25 | In the Peace Procession which assembled on 19 July 1919 , 300 union members marched behind their banner . |
| 26 | The Revolution settlement was worked out in the Convention Parliament which assembled on 22 January 1689 . |
| 27 | This month the Peter Tillou gallery ( which opened at 39 Duke Street in 1989 and exhibited at the Grosvenor House Fair in 1992 ) inaugurates an additional gallery in the former premises of Leggatt Bros. ( 17 Duke Street ) . |
| 28 | The Victoria and Albert Museum has updated and expanded its twentieth-century design collection by replacing the space known as British Art and Design 1900–1960 with a new Twentieth-century Gallery which opened on 22 October . |
| 29 | In its reply to the Commission on 11 December , the UK said it would now withdraw the derogations ( which happened on 10 April 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |