Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly he introduced new cars , including the De Luxe cars , new Pullman cars for the Fleetwood route and the famous toastracks which successfully operated the Circular Tour . |
| 2 | That college was the stronghold of the " child-centred " approach to teaching young children , but the schools in the London area which successfully demonstrated the Froebelian philosophy were few and far between . |
| 3 | In the aftermath of the first oil shock , however , there was a greater tendency for OPEC countries to diversify their assets into traditionally strong currencies such as the Deutschmark and Swiss franc , a move which effectively boosted the international value of these currencies . |
| 4 | In the middle of this solemn crisis , Alan burst in : ‘ Have you a book on insect identification ? ’ — which effectively deflated the solemn mood . |
| 5 | The rampart front itself was subsequently cut away to accommodate a massive stone wall set on a foundation of limestone , clay and rubble lenses , which presumably incorporated the existing tower at the south-east gate . |
| 6 | This growing undercurrent of public protest was to prove a critical factor in the crisis which eventually engulfed the nuclear power developers . |
| 7 | There was therefore a group of ‘ aliens ’ among the king 's familiares which long outlived the political turmoil of Henry III 's reign . |
| 8 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 9 | In Liverpool William Rathbone extracted figures from the muster roles which Clarkson used as the basis for the statistics on mortality , disease and desertion amongst seamen engaged in the slave trade and which apparently impressed the Privy Council committee . |
| 10 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 11 | Does the Minister recall the remark made by President Yeltsin the other day which so delighted the Prime Minister — that Britain 's nuclear weapons were irrelevant and of no consequence in the discussions about nuclear disarmament ? |
| 12 | Since then , the vast European world empires which so simplified the political map have gone , leaving behind something over 170 governments and well over 170 nationalisms . |
| 13 | Circumstances , or ‘ luck ’ , have also been important in her later career , particularly the outbursts of industrial unrest in 1979 which so damaged the Labour government , the divisions in the Labour party , the occurrence of the Falklands war in 1982 , and the divided non-Conservative vote in the 1983 and 1987 elections . |
| 14 | A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] . |
| 15 | At the start of the conference , the 18 countries which together comprised the European Community and the European Free Trade Area had agreed on this freeze as a common target . |
| 16 | Doug is a committee member of a local day centre , which desperately needed the new computer furniture the money was able to buy . |
| 17 | It was his marriage to his wife Danielle , the heiress to a family fortune , which finally secured the soap-opera image . |
| 18 | The inquiry provided the arena last month for Mr Reynolds ' allegation of dishonesty against his then cabinet colleague , and Progressive Democrats party leader , Des O'Malley a remark which finally shattered the fragile coalition administration . |
| 19 | The relation , the theoretical basis of the Phillips curve , was interpreted as this ‘ missing equation ’ which finally closed the Keynesian model . |
| 20 | Above all else it was the circumstantial and highly sympathetic accounts of complex and sophisticated tribal institutions and beliefs produced in the crucial inter-war period which finally destroyed the archaic stereotype of the rustic tribesman as a congenitally incapacitated simpleton , incapable of rational reasoning or civilized living . |
| 21 | Chloroform , which easily dissolved the original compound , did not remove the monolayer . |
| 22 | Writing this in 1757 , at the beginning of the Seven Years War , Malachi Postlethwayt may have failed to prophesy the exact sequence of war and peace , but he perceived clearly enough the interactions between war , debt and taxation which largely determined the public policy of Hanoverian England . |
| 23 | At first it came down almost lazily , in huge , silent flakes which soon blanketed the frozen ground . |
| 24 | The resolution noted that most environmental pollution originated in the developed countries , which thus had the main responsibility for fighting it . |
| 25 | By 1986 , thy bumiputra share of equity among the 173 members of the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce and Industry , which broadly represented the international business community , had grown to 21 per cent . |
| 26 | And what more radical initiative in education could be mounted than one which decisively disturbed the traditional partnership between central and local government in the management of education and which exploded once and for all the myth of ‘ the secret garden of the curriculum ’ ? |
| 27 | On those occasions when he had felt the need to demonstrate his power to management , he would create an instant departmental dispute which always had the immediate effect of lowering that day 's efficiency to below fifty per cent . |
| 28 | Low-spirited , disappointed that she must forgo the festivities which always marked the twelfth day of Christmas , she wept copiously and bewailed her ill-fortune to such an extent that it was feared she would increase the severity of the illness . |
| 29 | On Sunday mornings Auntie would bring it back clean , cook lunch — which always included the one vegetable I can stomach , ie beans-in-a-tin because they 're not disgusting green — and afterwards she and I would play the test match while Pa worked on his sermon . |
| 30 | There is a part of him which always loved the soft life of the Brazilian beaches , the sun , the sea , the sport , the girls ; and there is another part of him that is quite ruthless , highly organized , very self-promoting and ambitious . |