Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was said that he travelled to Europe and established the Merovingian dynasty of kings which ruled France until displaced in 679 AD , by which time the dynasty had become enfeebled . |
| 4 | The position of the territory , situated to the northeast of Beijing , bordered to the east by Korea and with a long frontier with Russia , was somewhat ambiguous , Home of the Manchu Qing dynasty which ruled China from 1644 until its fall in 1911 , it had a distinct status shared with no other part of the empire . |
| 5 | It was only in the mid twelfth century that the growing concentration of mercantile wealth led to the recognition of the oligarchy as the permanent government , which ruled Venice throughout the later centuries of her glory and her decline . |
| 6 | Portugal ( which ruled East Timor until the Indonesian annexation in 1975 ) called for Gusmao 's release and offered him asylum . |
| 7 | It was this government which ruled Britain until May 1940 , when yet another coalition , led by Churchill — a genuine all-party coalition — governed Britain until 1945 , when there was a return to party politics and alternating governments . |
| 8 | The comedy , which averaged £8,750 a cinema , hammered Francis Ford Coppola 's Dracula and Spike Lee 's Malcolm X. |
| 9 | René Magritte 's work , which averaged £14,000 in 1975 , is now up 360% at £65,000 but down 38% on 1990 . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs were part of a group of companies which operated Bureaux de Change . |
| 11 | A plaque tells how it was once the wartime headquarters of 98 Squadron which operated Mitchells from Dunsfold . |
| 12 | Tour prices start from £367 and include : return scheduled flights ; accommodation with breakfast at the Scandic Crown hotel , which operated morning and evening transfers between the hotel and fair ; and all applicable airport taxes and hotel service charges . |
| 13 | Competition with gas was non-existent in many rural areas which lacked gas supplies but was at its most fierce in new urban housing estates . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom expert , very surprisingly , was equally silent on this matter ; he explained the purpose of Article 23 as being to enable Contracting States to refuse to execute Letters of Request which lacked specificity in that they did not describe precisely enough the documents to be obtained or examined . |
| 15 | Even the races which lacked talons — whom Alexei considered human in origin — baulked at contact with mutated species , and as a result mutants tended to live in deserted or out-of-the-way parts of the country , effectively quarantined from the rest of civilisation . |
| 16 | Much of the speech by the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East , which lacked content , was taken up by a series of jealous tirades against the pay of people in the private sector who have satisfied shareholders , directors and other representatives of their need for a pay rise . |
| 17 | Our study does not identify the mechanism by which NSAID treatment leads to enhanced synthesis of LTB 4 . |
| 18 | But Labov 's main concern was to obtain insights into processes of linguistic change and to challenge linguistic theories which modelled language as a static entity , identifying homogeneity with structure . |
| 19 | The conventional wisdom of the late 1970s blamed Britain 's high unemployment on the trade unions , which priced workers out of jobs . |
| 20 | Its collapse is a blow to high street banks who have spent millions of pounds to stave off receivership — particularly Barclays which lent £75 million . |
| 21 | At Bethlehem , New Hampshire , the highest village east of the Rockies , the Boston and Maine created a delightful , half-timbered chalet-style building with a great deal of space for the horse-drawn coaches and carriages which conveyed excursionists from the station . |
| 22 | But the actual implementation of this Christian philosophy often fell far short of these standards , and throughout the modern era we can trace a second layer , summed up in the phrase ‘ the double standard ’ , which enjoined chastity on the female while allowing a large degree of sexual freedom for the male . |
| 23 | Such differences in emphasis and even objective were the fatal flaw in the project , a flaw which saddled Tanzania with a $17 million commitment to repay the Bank 's soft loan wing , the International Development Agency ( IDA ) . |
| 24 | The five-country meeting at San Jose has assumed a critical atmosphere because of the possible breakdown of last August 's Tela accord , which agreed contra demobilisation in exchange for democratic Nicaraguan elections . |
| 25 | After the World Cup draw at the weekend , which paired teams to play in Sardinia , the Football Association chief executive , Mr Graham Kelly , spoke with his Dutch counterpart and said there would be close liaison in the next few months . |
| 26 | The integration of individualized information with more general knowledge and theory is a complex cognitive task , which experienced professionals perform frequently . |
| 27 | Crying , colic and night-waking are only a tiny portion of the range of symptoms which experienced mothers report as disappearing and reappearing with dietary changes — changes in maternal diet for the breast-feeding mother , or changes in infant diet directly . |
| 28 | Canvassers for the main parties report ‘ white-hot indifference ’ mingled with ‘ raging boredom ’ as householders slam their doors on them or attack them with peashooters and water pistols from upper windows with a degree of commitment to the democratic process which experienced observers described as ‘ unprecedented ’ and ‘ profoundly conducive to thought ’ . |
| 29 | It has a very pleasant , extremely distinctive aroma which experienced vignerons in the Aube claim can be detected in a cuvée , despite the fact that its presence can only be , at the very most , a few percent of the overall blend . |
| 30 | All four sources also independently confirmed that on 9 December 1988 , Israeli Defence Forces had captured documents in a raid on a PFLP — GC base near Damour , Lebanon , which disclosed plans to bomb a Pan Am flight out of Frankfurt by the end of that month . |