Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 2 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 3 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 4 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 5 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
| 6 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 7 | The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die . |
| 8 | Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . |
| 9 | What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank . |
| 10 | The problem extended both to Old Dissent — what had become in the nineteenth century Independents or Congregationalists and Baptists — and to the Methodists who were wracked by schisms until 1849 . |
| 11 | However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind . |
| 12 | All the same it was n't easy to stop herself from wondering if he too was having difficulties in not remembering what had happened over the last forty-eight hours . |
| 13 | Look what had happened at the last seance . |
| 14 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 15 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 16 | What had happened in the nineteenth century was a relaxation in the definition of orthodoxy : Nonconformists no longer saw their chapels in virtual juxtaposition to the world about them . |
| 17 | What had happened in the fourteenth century , mainly French music had become very , very intellectual , very austere , very formal . |