Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only in the mid twelfth century that the growing concentration of mercantile wealth led to the recognition of the oligarchy as the permanent government , which ruled Venice throughout the later centuries of her glory and her decline . |
| 2 | In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge . |
| 3 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 4 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 5 | When he is really inform it is a treat to watch his work on the leg side , and few who saw it will forget that catch which dismissed Paynter in the watery third Test at Old Trafford . ’ |
| 6 | The prohibitionist thinking which affected America in the 1920s was not without supporters in Britain , and the practical result in architecture was that pubs emphasised their domestic image , and encouraged the serving of more food , as against the all-male tradition of ‘ vertical drinking ’ at a bar . |
| 7 | He became increasingly concerned that the monarchical regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which committed Germany to the First World War , was over-dominated by military and bureaucratic interests at the expense of the national interest . |
| 8 | Some animals also received a subarachnoid injection of COS-7 cells that were transiently transfected with a PDGF-A complementary DNA and which secreted PDGF into the cerebrospinal fluid . |
| 9 | Quite simply the gulf which separated Britain from the Six , apparent long before the WEU was created , was far too wide to be bridged by such a tenuous organisation . |
| 10 | He patted the bulkhead affectionately , then gave all his attention to manoeuvring the Angharad out of Lee Haven and into the fast-flowing sound which separated Gullholm from the Welsh coast . |
| 11 | He was not impressed by all the hocus-pocus with the Scapegoat nor by the gossip which linked Jordan with the dead man , but beyond all that he was beginning to feel — to sense that this was a sinister crime , an expression of hatred , long nurtured in secret until it could no longer be contained . |
| 12 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 13 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 14 | Having their roots in the sense of crisis which pervaded Europe in the 1930s , Rougemont 's theories have been described as ‘ anti-parliamentary , anti-capitalist , anti-individualist , anti-liberal , anti-materialist ’ . |
| 15 | The creation of a capitalist , consumer society and the rapid expansion of the urban middle classes which characterized Spain in the 1960s took place without making any fundamental modification to the political premises on which the regime was posited . |
| 16 | With little of the didactic or combative attitude which characterized NME during the late 1970s , Q concentrates most successfully on giving its affluent , young male readers what they already know they want . |
| 17 | It is none other than the superhuman power which raised Christ from the dead which is let loose within our human bodies ( Eph. 1:18f ) . |
| 18 | By now chronically ill , and exhausted by his summer 's overwork , he had no resistance left to the sudden change in climate which hit Vienna in the late autumn , with freezing fog , snow and biting winds . |
| 19 | Morpurgo — Harry did not doubt that it was Morpurgo — was a tall , awkward-looking figure in beret , muddied boiler suit and galoshes , feeding the incinerator with needless energy , forcing the rake-held bundles down into its smoking contents with disquieting relish , with an intensity , indeed , which warned Harry from the first that something was amiss . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've learned a lot since Belfast , ’ said Liubinskas who spent a year as assistant manager of AC Milan , favourites to win the European Cup with a victory over Marseille , the multi-talented French side which eliminated Glentoran in the first round . |
| 21 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 22 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 23 | Aluberht was consecrated bishop of the Old Saxons at York in 767 , and Alhred presided over the council which sent Willehad to the Frisian mission field c . |
| 24 | The change of ruler was formalized by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 which gave Italy to the Austrian Habsburgs . |
| 25 | But there were positive as well as negative reasons which influenced Scotsmen in the 1540s . |
| 26 | Another factor in this growing support was the relegation of Bradford City , which left Huddersfield as the only centre of First Division soccer in the West Riding . |
| 27 | Some say 1972 was a fight to the death , which left Jacklin as the slain gladiator . |
| 28 | What was surely the last ever Montenegrin ‘ royal event ’ was masterminded by the republic 's new Communist leadership , which has abruptly stopped describing Nicholas as a class enemy , to ride the same wave of popular patriotism and royal fervour which swept Serbia in the recent celebrations of the 600th anniversary of the battle of Kosovo . |