Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not only was it the structure of attitudes which concerned these scholars , but also they were interested in the dynamics of attitudinal change . |
| 3 | Red in the face he dumped the burden onto the massive wooden kitchen table , which gleamed white after countless years of daily scrubbing . |
| 4 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 5 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 6 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 7 | Central and local government activities outside the strict limits of the Poor Law expanded , much of it guided by the principles which ruled poor relief . |
| 8 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 9 | Hilary and June had the opportunity to explain the work of our Society which engendered considerable interest . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the last stage of García 's presidential term the government on Oct. 2 , 1989 , adopted measures to reduce inflation ( which averaged 32 per cent monthly in 1989 , reaching a record annual rate of 2,775 per cent ) and to contribute to economic recovery . |
| 11 | Because of paper rationing it had only four to eight pages , unless it was The Times , which averaged nine . |
| 12 | Inflation , which averaged 4.7 per cent per year during the sixth five-year plan period , was projected at 5.6 per cent per year in 1992-96 . |
| 13 | Since the first extended reach well , export shipments which averaged some 60,000 barrels a day ( b/d ) , are peaking at 83,000 b/d . |
| 14 | During the War , seasonal traffic declined , but there was a new requirement for troop carriers by the R.A.F. , which operated major training facilities in Blackpool . |
| 15 | In addition the powers of the National Enterprise Board , which operated various state-owned businesses , were to be restricted . |
| 16 | The press made much of his brother Geoffrey 's Chairmanship of the Tramway Museum Society , which operated vintage trams at its Museum in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | Still in Suffolk , the sign at Debach bears a plaque dedicated to the 493rd Bomb Group , which operated B-17s from the airfield of the same name . |
| 18 | The ideological dimension favoured in the explanation of Continental fertility differences seems less applicable to Britain , which lacked major foci of religious or social dissent . |
| 19 | If an ambiguous penal provision should , as a matter of principle , be narrowly construed in the interests of liberty and fairness , a criminal statute which lacked all precision authorising the punishment of whatever conduct officials deemed it expedient to punish — should , on the same principle , be denied any application at all . |
| 20 | Those which lacked this essential source of strength were either impotent small ones on the fringes of the great political developments of the age , such as the Italian republics , or , in the case of some more important States , were notably less well governed and less effectively led than their neighbours and competitors . |
| 21 | Some past investments in Scotch have exposed small holdings which lacked expert advice . |
| 22 | As Haynes points out , the planning process reflected this in that it ‘ usually took the form of a series of isolated , departmental exercises which lacked any common framework of reference apart from the central control of financial input ’ ( Haynes , 1980 , p. 82 ) . |
| 23 | Simon Roberts , Friends of the Earth 's energy campaigner , described the government approach as " a big carbon con " which lacked any new initiatives . |
| 24 | A month later , on 15 July , the Cabinet had before it a further memorandum from the Home Secretary which ventilated some alternative strategies : |
| 25 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 26 | When I was a junior doctor in hospitals in the late 1920s , I had under my care a doctor , then over 60 , who told me that when he was young in London , he knew of a doctor 's plate which conveyed this message to prospective patients : Medicine and advice fourpence , superior ditto sixpence . |
| 27 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 28 | The Community , which agreed last week progressively to lift economic sanctions against Serbia , should back the Americans by putting its offer on hold until the federal army withdraws and the irregulars are disbanded . |
| 29 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 30 | AEA has worked with a profit centre in a large organisation with an annual turnover of £20 million which experienced occasional major incidents and regular small claims for minor accidents and failures . |