Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advance of these oil-producing countries , which became known collectively as the ‘ non-OPEC ’ group , was a notable feature of the early 1980s . |
| 2 | The recession also led to the demand for the provision of greater economic security for the average citizen , which became embodied subsequently in the growth of the welfare state following the election of the Labour Government in 1945 . |
| 3 | To make a living he worked at Sothebys for two years and then set up business selling Cartier objects and jewelry which involved travelling all around the world . |
| 4 | They passed a house which seemed to hang perilously onto the hillside . |
| 5 | He was beginning to find pieces which seemed to go together with the hint of a pattern … |
| 6 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |
| 8 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 9 | The long pause which followed weighed heavily in the warm air . |
| 10 | Much use was made of the memoirs which began to pour forth in the 1920s from figures at court and in the army , from foreign diplomats and correspondents , and from political leaders across the political spectrum . |
| 11 | It formed a slick some 50 km long and 1 km wide which began to drift westwards towards the Nicobar Islands ( a territory of India ) . |
| 12 | In Eastern Europe the opposition movements which began to grow rapidly in the 1980s were finally successful in bringing about the collapse of the communist regimes , but they have not yet been able to create an acceptable and stable new order ; nationalist movements have proliferated , and a new labour movement has emerged which contests the policy of restoring free-market capitalism that has so far produced only economic disaster . |
| 13 | Developments of this kind were obviously worrying to the Soviet leadership , which began to speak openly of the dangers of ‘ internal counter-revolution ’ . |
| 14 | Judge Leo Clark told Dawtrey it was a bad case , with a number of aggravating features which included running away from the scene in complete disregard for the lorry and its driver' . ’ |
| 15 | Her very longevity in office now appeared as a handicap to a party which needed to look forward to the 1990s not back to the battles of the 1980s . |
| 16 | Five seconds later they opened again , and I was in a wide corridor which appeared to lead right to the rear of the building . |
| 17 | According to the Financial Times , such a move represented an attempt to create a " two-speed " CIS , with states like Ukraine , which wished to go ahead in the near future with the introduction of its own currency , " pushed at least to the edge of the CIS , if not out of it entirely " . |
| 18 | Six weeks later the town , which had suffered heavily from the bombardment of English cannon , capitulated . |
| 19 | He later retracted the comments and explained that they were made after visiting an area which had suffered lightly from the storm and that he was unaware of the true extent of the devastation . |
| 20 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |
| 22 | The existence of this power resulted , ironically , in the fact that those African newspapers which had campaigned vigorously for the nationalist cause now enjoyed less freedom under the very governments that they had helped to create . |
| 23 | Almost an entire generation of Titfords in Frome was increasingly destitute from the 1780s onwards ; in a town which had depended heavily upon the wool industry for its prosperity for so long , the innate conservatism of the local clothiers left them unable to respond to changing times and new technology . |
| 24 | According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species . |
| 25 | In the immediate aftermath of the rioting the vignerons tried to excuse their actions by claiming that only houses which practised the blending of wines from the Midi had been molested , but there was no evidence to bear this out and even houses which had kept strictly to the noble blends had been attacked . |
| 26 | Meanwhile on Jan. 23 he was sentenced to five years in prison , after a two-day trial , for forging the document allegedly signed by Papandreou which had featured prominently in the evidence presented against Papandreou . |
| 27 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 28 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 29 | Just too late to serve the dwindling numbers of travelling public which had relied heavily on the railways , it remained open for only 40 years , during which time the car came more and more into ascendancy as a means of transport . |
| 30 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |