Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] reached [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sticking point in the national strike of 1977 was the union 's right to stage wildcat strikes between contracts , which had reached a very high level in 1975 and 1976 . |
| 2 | On Feb. 4 , 1990 , the government introduced job-creation measures to combat a sharp rise in unemployment , which had reached a record 4.8 per cent ( or 7.7 per cent if people on government-training schemes were included — see p. 36942 ) . |
| 3 | In mid-January India had secured from the IMF the equivalent of US$1,800 million ( $777 million as the first tranche of a standby arrangement and $1,009 million under the compensatory and contingency financing facility — CCFF ) in order to boost foreign exchange reserves which had been eroded by rising oil prices and the loss of remittances from the Gulf and which had reached an unprecedented low in late 1990 . |
| 4 | He said that the control of inflation , which had reached an annualized rate of 13,000 per cent in 1990 , was the most pressing economic problem . |
| 5 | All six groups which had reached an agreement at Djibouti in July 1991 [ see p. 38322 ] , including the faction of the USC that continued to support Mahdi Mohammed , had on July 29 welcomed the UN resolution adopted two days earlier and the proposed deployment of UN troops in Somalia . |
| 6 | In some Shanghai factories , once a ‘ hotbed ’ of radicalism , there were demands for independent trade unions along the lines of Solidarity in Poland , news of which had reached the Chinese people . |
| 7 | In the Joint Commission , which had reached the end of its futile labours , General Shtikov proposed in early October the withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea as a prelude to the various Korean factions agreeing on a provisional government to lead the peninsula to unified independence . |
| 8 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 9 | Of the 90 members of the National Assembly , serving a four-year term , 40 were directly elected ; the remaining 50 were distributed by the Republican Electoral Commission according to a proportional representation system among those eight parties which had reached the threshold for parliamentary representation by winning 3 per cent or more of the vote . |
| 10 | It adopted the then new methodology of selecting inventive products which had reached the market and making pairs of companies of which one had been successful and the other unsuccessful . |