Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Portugal ( which ruled East Timor until the Indonesian annexation in 1975 ) called for Gusmao 's release and offered him asylum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A plaque tells how it was once the wartime headquarters of 98 Squadron which operated Mitchells from Dunsfold . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | However , there was no formal document at Yalta which divided Europe up into ‘ spheres of influence ’ . |
| 10 | There was a little plastic notice next to it which read EDENWORT : SLICE IT OR BAKE IT OR USE IT IN CASSEROLES . |
| 11 | I pointed to a label on the front of the tank which read Calico Oranda underneath a picture of one bearing a striking resemblance to the fish in question . |
| 12 | These beautiful three storey dwellings were next to three very poor looking , low two-storey cottages , in the first of which lived Mr. Clements with his family . |
| 13 | Instead , they had driven on eastwards , beyond the last heath of the New Forest as far as the housing estates fringing Fawley Oil Refinery , on one of which lived Molly Diamond , Dysart 's cleaning lady . |
| 14 | The government proposed ( a ) that Austin Rover cars should be sold to Ford , ( b ) that Leyland Vehicles ( including Land Rover ) should be sold to General Motors , which manufactured Bedford trucks in the UK and ( c ) that Leyland Bus should be sold to the other major UK-based bus manufacturer , the Laird Group . |
| 15 | Many arachnoiditis sufferers are now taking legal action against Glaxo , which manufactured Myodil . |
| 16 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe that priceless information about the past has been lost in the severe storms which battered Orkney earlier this year . |
| 17 | An MC200 pilot claimed one Hurricane damaged , and it is probable that it was these fighters , rather than Bf109s , which attacked Laubscher and/or Pain subsequent to their fight with the biplanes . |
| 18 | The shark which attacked Ford was later caught by fishermen but escaped . |
| 19 | ‘ Unless the same virus which attacked Paula 's starsuit attacked Belial 's neural net as well . ’ |
| 20 | In 1976 a constitution was drawn up in Lisbon which designated Madeira an Autonomous Political Region . |
| 21 | Headaches and nausea were common complaints of people breathing the cocktail of acidic and photochemical pollutants which enveloped Kuwait City frequently . |
| 22 | Not only were West Germany , Japan , the United States and Sweden recording much better economic results than the United Kingdom , but European countries such as Italy , France and Spain experienced ‘ economic miracles ’ which passed Britain by . |
| 23 | This weekend it was the turn of the kart racers … the sport which produced Nigel Mansell , Aryton Senna and most of the world 's top drivers . |
| 24 | Taking the river Loire as a boundary the lands north of this reflected the Norman influence — that same influence which produced England 's Norman architecture also that of Sicily and southern Italy . |
| 25 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 26 | By this date there must have been a very fine library at Islay House collected over the two hundred years since it was built ; one can not imagine that Eallabus which produced Dr. John Crawford who wrote " A History of the Indian Archipelago " and " A Grammar & Dictionary of the Malay Language , " and the distinguished surgeon Professor Cheine , was without a library . |
| 27 | The scar itself is part of the Mid-Craven Fault , one of the same set of faults which produced Giggleswick and Attermire Sears . |
| 28 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 29 | The Jewel Tower is a fascinating remnant of the medieval Palace of Westminster which housed Edward III 's treasure until the death of Henry VIII . |
| 30 | To his right was the single-storey extension which housed Glynn 's office with its own exit to the yard . |