Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , it has been pointed out that there was no net increase in total real wealth between 1913 and 1951 , and in this context the world wars are cast as the harpies which devoured the accumulated efforts of previous generations . |
| 2 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 3 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 4 | Hers was shiny jewels , blue , red and diamond bright which twinkled when they caught the light . |
| 5 | He came from Ethiopia , and his skin was the colour of glistening wet coal except for the palms of his hands , which were sandy pale , and the whites of his eyes , which twinkled like sunshine on fresh clean snow . |
| 6 | Most had already lit their fore-and-aft lamps , which twinkled like glow-worms in the gathering dusk . |
| 7 | A fit and healthy 10 year old , he was playing in the lounge with his brother when he fell on a knitting needle , which pierced his neck and punctured his spinal cord . |
| 8 | They knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to Jarveys in high pitched provincial voices , which pierced through their skin-tight accents . |
| 9 | The company acquired had many business interests which overlapped the company 's own businesses . |
| 10 | It was this reputation that attracted Stanley Pons to Southampton in 1975 , and it was Pons ' passion for skiing and his interest in cooking which overlapped so well with Fleischmann 's and brought the two men close . |
| 11 | ( which overlapped into Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood ) , were freeholders , a numerous class in this district , the remainder lessees for term of years or at will . |
| 12 | They had to work alongside deputy heads and postholders who also had managerial responsibilities , some of which overlapped considerably with their own . |
| 13 | The existing management was organised around establishments , each with its own board of management , its own financial system , its own marketing and commercial organisation , its safety infrastructure , administration and so on , but with business interests which overlapped the other establishments . |
| 14 | In August 1910 the Board finally introduced its own legislation in the form of the Education ( Choice of Employment ) Bill , which empowered LEAs to create and finance their own juvenile employment services . |
| 15 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 16 | In 1968 the Government introduced the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , which empowered the president to order a newspaper to cease publication when he considered it in the public interest to do so . |
| 17 | Before the Act , section 5 of the 1936 Act was supplemented by a miscellany of powers to be found in local legislation , which empowered the police to deal with minor nuisances and acts of hooliganism . |
| 18 | Such a solution was found by the government by invoking , with the King 's agreement , a clause in the Constitution dealing with the sovereign 's " incapacity to reign " which empowered parliament to suspend the sovereign and execute his functions . |
| 19 | But in Britain , with its strong governmental impulse as created in the Victorian period in the aftermath of the 1855 Northcote-Trevelyan report , with the British faith in the educated , patrician ‘ expert ’ which kindled the support of American progressives and ‘ genteel reformers ’ in the previous century , the decline of planning and the loss of confidence in the effectiveness of social engineering had a deep cultural impact . |
| 20 | Quite often all these sorts of considerations interact to influence the operation of discretion , as illustrated by the following incident , which concerned a road traffic accident ( an RTA ) towards the end of a shift . |
| 21 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 22 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 23 | Lineage shaikhs designated one of their number to be a section shaikh , to represent them in affairs which concerned them all . |
| 24 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 25 | On the facts before it , which concerned a death from a lorry shedding its load , the court held that the police were wrong to arrest for manslaughter the person whom they thought had been driving the truck : there was a wide gap between a suspicion that somebody was driving a truck , and a suspicion that they were driving it recklessly . |
| 26 | This is the action in the famous Argyll v. Argyll , which concerned the possible disclosure of intimate marital secrets . |
| 27 | In the meantime the only guidance as to what would constitute an acceptable limit on Article 8(1) rights is the rather equivocal decision in the Klass case which concerned the operation of surveillance procedures in the German Federal Republic where legislation authorized telephone-tapping and other surveillance techniques if a number of conditions were satisfied . |
| 28 | Since the working class is the largest group and the group which concerned the educational reformers of 1944 , it is the natural choice of a base for the class variable . |
| 29 | Another social problem which concerned him was the lack of housing both for the poor and for the tourists . |
| 30 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |