Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 2 | On April 4 Bor , which had been under SPLA control since April 1989 , fell to a government force of some 2,000 men , which was armed with heavy artillery against the SPLA 's lighter arms . |
| 3 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 4 | In fact , it barely sufficed to keep out reconnaissance sorties by the handful of French planes which had been in Verdun at the outset . |
| 5 | Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them . |