Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual physical growth of the city helped this process , for many newer industries had been established in areas which lay outside the official boundaries but which became incorporated into the municipal administrative areas by the 1860s . |
| 2 | In particular , the litopterns , like the horses , lost all their toes except the middle one on each leg , which became enlarged as the bottom joint of the leg and developed a hoof . |
| 3 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 4 | the ideological problem of how to break down popular expectations regarding social provisions which became established during the postwar years of Keynesian consensus politics . |
| 5 | Next the unrealized plan for a full-length novel , Confession , which got switched to the shod Notes from Underground . |
| 6 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 7 | Vitor entered her and Ashley 's hips lifted , meeting the hard rhythmic thrusts which seemed to penetrate to the very depths of her womb . |
| 8 | He heard a howl which seemed to rise from the very bowels of the earth : long , cruel and haunting . |
| 9 | The monetary sector now comprised : ( a ) all recognized banks and LDTs ; ( b ) the National Girobank ; ( c ) the Trustee Savings Bank ; ( d ) the Banking Department of the Bank of England ; and ( e ) those institutions in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man which opted to adhere to the new arrangements . |
| 10 | The legal process which followed ended with the Supreme Court 's decision on July 17 . |
| 11 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 12 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 13 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
| 14 | The mass of new information which started to accumulate with the pre-war coalfield revision was greatly augmented during the wartime period . |
| 15 | He kicked another stone , which went rocketing after the first one . |
| 16 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |
| 17 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 18 | Factors which emerged related to the dependent relationship between the father and his elderly mother , and to the long-standing unsatisfactory state of the couple 's marriage . |
| 19 | He stared mournfully at the bright strip which appeared to float in the cold air over the small table . |
| 20 | The more sceptical and critical attitude towards nationalism which appeared to develop in the postwar period , and the fresh attempts to create ( even within a limited area ) supranational organizations , or at the other end of the spectrum to revive local and regional communities , provided an opportunity to redirect the sense of belonging , at least to some extent , upon political units other than the nation state . |
| 21 | It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space . |
| 22 | Not much enthusiasm was transferred in the migration to the UK and the enthusiasm which appeared to grow in the 1980s seems mainly due to the successes of young black players in the football league . |
| 23 | He strode past the lines of guards and attendants , nodded to the pair of officers who lounged at their ease in the shadow of the enormous length of midnight-blue fabric which hung suspended from the ceiling in lieu of a screen , and slackened his pace only when he was out in the long gallery which ran supported around the entire upper floor . |
| 24 | For example , it has been criticized for being unable to deal with problems of unemployment , which continued to rise throughout the 1980s . |
| 25 | Many states specified a minimum private income which recruits to their diplomatic services had to have ( for example the 6,000 lire demanded by the Sardinian government in 1856 which continued to apply in the new united Italy , or the £400 required in Britain ) . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 27 | The relaxed air which had reigned in the warm little living room of Rose Cottage seemed suddenly to have evaporated . |
| 28 | She appeared to experience a return of an old symptom in the form of fear of cancer — her father had died of a particularly virulent from of rectal cancer which had metastasised to the spinal cord and brain and she had periodically experienced intense fear that she would die similarly . |
| 29 | The hostilities which had followed upon the previous confiscations of 1294 and 1324 had not been long-lasting . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the abolition of the school boards was a first step towards reducing the number of overlapping , separately elected , local authorities which had emerged during the preceding seventy years ; and importantly , in the eyes of Balfour and Morant , it would diminish the independence of local education authorities and the consequent considerable variation in the quality of provision , and also reduce the denominational influence upon local education . |