Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Efforts continued to establish a harmonization of European accounting practices , in accordance with the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives ( 1978 and 1983 respectively ) , the first of which had created the Contact Committee of officials , the standards body which had originated most of the current proposals ( but which was still not recognized by many EC members ) , while the second had included measures to standardize the presentation of consolidated accounts within the EC ( see p. 36154 for earlier developments ) . |
| 2 | It was a potentially dangerous operation involving 15 armed police officers , 2 of which had tracked the car in the force helicopter . |
| 3 | BP , ICL , IBM , Volvo , British Gas in Wales , British Telecom in the South-west , and a clutch of local authorities , many of which had led the way , had all shown it could be done , with Ford announcing its partial ban recently . |
| 4 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 5 | The Nairobi weekly publication Development Agenda was banned in August 1989 after publishing only two issues , one of which had examined the politics of the Western province and the career of Livestock Development Minister Elijah W. Mwangale . |
| 6 | Candarli Halil Pasa was one of a family of statesmen , four members of which had held the office of Grand Vezir for much of the century preceding the accession of Mehmed II ; and these men had also held , prior to their appointments as vezir , the offices of kadi and kazasker . |
| 7 | It used to be the custom that the issue of the writ should be moved by chief whip of the party in the House of Commons a member of which had held the seat prior to its vacation , but this practice was occasionally the subject of abuse by the moving party being reluctant , by reason of its unpopularity in the country and consequent fear of being humiliated in a poll , Constituents in one instance were left unrepresented for over nine months . |
| 8 | The independence of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay from Spain was finally recognized in 1828 by Argentina and Brazil , both of which had claimed the territory . |
| 9 | An obvious possibility was an academic splash , and throughout his years at Burleigh he had chafed at the mediocrity of the school , the variable nature of the teaching , the dimness of its reputation , all of which seemed to preclude the splash academic . |
| 10 | A larger version , called the Super-Speedwing was introduced for 1992 with extra panels , a deeper cone and a trailing edge hem , all of which combined to reduce the noise element to claims of ‘ near silent ’ . |
| 11 | Faced with expressions of " growing concern " from Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and vociferous criticism from the bloc parties ( three of which threatened to leave the coalition over the issue ) , Modrow withdrew plans to create an Office for the Protection of the Constitution before the elections . |
| 12 | Being handsome , he had enjoyed only good fortune and fine adventures in his life , not the least of which included slaying the CHIMERA and defeating the AMAZONS . |
| 13 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 14 | Both newspapers gave fairly accurate accounts of what had happened the night before last . |
| 15 | The turning point in what had become the War of American Independence came in October 1777 , when a British army under General Burgoyne suffered a spectacular defeat at Saratoga , 180 miles [ 288 km ] north of New York . |