Example sentences of "[Wh det] took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes , which took immediate effect , resulted from an inquiry launched on April 22 , following the disclosure that Sununu had made more than 70 trips on military aircraft since April 1989 . |
| 2 | The embargo , which took immediate effect , prohibited all US contracts with the manufacturer as well as the importation of any Armscor products . |
| 3 | In fact , it was a stubborn virginity , which took all his strength to remove ; while he wrought at it she gave way to wailing , then it broke at last , a cry ; perhaps the only natural sound Emily had ever made in face of the only reality that had ever assailed her . |
| 4 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 5 | It is , therefore , of particular significance to Lafayette as this new range , which took one year to develop , is launched into the market place . |
| 6 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 7 | The Individual Programme Plans of Elizabeth and Helen , which took two attempts to get off the ground because of staff changes and inadequate training , have been virtually suspended — even before the first reviews — because of the latest staffing upheaval . |
| 8 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 9 | In the past 200 years , America has accomplished feats which took other countries years to achieve . |
| 10 | You may well be wondering why I have taken such pains to show that the Spirit of God , his active intervention on the human scene which took such varied forms in the Old Testament , became concentrated in the person of Jesus the Messiah , and then was poured out by him upon the messianic community . |
| 11 | Together they totalled less than 20 per cent , more than six per cent down on the votes for the old Communist Party , which took 26.6 per cent in the 1987 general election . |
| 12 | If tests are successful , inventors Integrated Surgical Systems , which took six years to develop Robodoc , will apply for clinical trials throughout America . |
| 13 | In the crucial second game , which took 27 minutes , Jackman dominated several rallies and subjected Devoy to a lot of running . |
| 14 | However , the registration process was boycotted by several opposition groups , which took legal action to challenge the legislation regarding the formation and conduct of political parties . |
| 15 | He told her tales of run-away wives , too-small dowries , adultery among the rich of Bombay ( which took many evenings ) and , most delicious , political corruption . |
| 16 | Another phenomenon which took many of the gentry by surprise and swept some of them along with it , albeit protesting , was an outbreak of Puritan fanaticism in eastern Sussex in 1642 ; it encouraged paradoxically a tendency to religious broadness of mind seen as quite distinct from the narrow views of Archbishop Laud . |
| 17 | Next door was the ‘ Louis XVI Bedroom ’ , in which the bed and curtain fabric was also inspired by an eighteenth-century Lyons silk and which took many of its period details from an 1801 mezzotint . |
| 18 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 19 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 20 | In particular , essentialist conceptions of the self which took effective hold only in the Enlightenment , then to be subsequently developed within ( for instance ) Romanticism and modernism , have been retrospectively read into the early modern period . |
| 21 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 22 | the team was hoisted onto open trucks which took five hours to crawl the three mile distance from Lahore Airport to the Fortress Stadium with thousands and thousands of fans running alongside the procession . |
| 23 | Dustin had to suffer under a fourteen-piece latex mask , which took five hours a day to apply under the hot , steaming make-up lamps . |
| 24 | The Skegness Festival in 1938 had a Carnival Procession which took five or six hours to get through the town , the Rector of Stiffkey now forgotten . |
| 25 | On the following day , Franco took the salute at a victory parade which took five hours to pass the towering dais on which he stood , flanked by military officers , Party officials , Church dignitaries and government ministers . |
| 26 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 27 | I brought the boat back from Bilbao in Spain on my own which took five days . |
| 28 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 29 | With 43 recommendations , the report , which took four months to prepare , admits that ‘ a free society requires the freedom to say or print things that are inconvenient to those in authority , whether they be members of the Royal Family , ministers , MPs , local councillors or public officials ’ . |
| 30 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |