Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence ; they massed around them and tried to engulf them . |
| 2 | It ca n't have been the script , which tried unconvincingly to suggest multiple reconciliation under the spell of the Castello Brown ( the castle 's real-life name , believe me or not ) and then petered out , as if the adaptor had given up and left the cast to improvise . |
| 3 | ‘ No — you 'd find it even hotter if we did , ’ he told her firmly , placing their suitcases down and switching on two small lamps on the tables set either side of a large , shabby couch which had clearly seen better days . |
| 4 | The guilty plea — a surprise about-face by Hitachi which had strongly denied any wrong-doing — follows several weeks of negotiations between the company and the |
| 5 | In the discussion which followed J. T. Murphy characterized the Labour Party as " the third party of the bourgeoisie " , and as a party which had completely defeated Communist attempts to influence it . |
| 6 | The National Rifle Association , the powerful lobby which had successfully blocked most gun controls , announced its support for a national computerised system to check prospective gun-buyers for possible criminal records . |
| 7 | King George 's command of the sea , which had already prevented French assistance reaching Prince Charles 's headquarters at Inverness , proved valuable once again , for food was now sent to Fort William from Liverpool , arms from Dublin and troops from Glasgow . |
| 8 | Minor award schools were categorised as those which had already achieved some success in terms of library/resource awareness within the school , and appropriate developments in library provision , even though they might still be underfunded for meeting those aspirations . |
| 9 | The final hurdle was overcome on Dec. 18 , when the Ministers approved a directive on the question of solvency and capital adequacy for banks-an issue which had already caused deep disagreement , notably in West Germany , where fears had been expressed that it would lead to a dilution of the sector 's relatively high national standards . |
| 10 | At the same time the tables would be turned so that they could actually be used to help finance the project , along with the Right-On councils which had already thrown financial caution to the winds . |
| 11 | However , the government 's threat to withhold payment on contracts with European companies if sanctions were imposed was discounted by many firms which had already encountered long delays in payment . |
| 12 | The enactment of both provisions remained far from certain , however , as they were attached to a campaign finance bill which had yet to receive congressional assent and which faced a threatened veto from President Bush . |
| 13 | The delegation representing the Serbian-dominated Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) ( which had yet to achieve international recognition ) was headed by Prime Minister Milan Panic and President Dobrica Cosic . |
| 14 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 15 | Among these long-term influences he included the deplorable state of the late medieval Catholic church , a widespread and deeply-rooted anti-clericalism , and the indigenous English heresy of Lollardy , which had both fuelled lay anti-clericalism and prepared the ground for later Protestant doctrines . |
| 16 | He wrote a substantial commentary on the book of Daniel , to discourage fervent apocalyptic expectations of an imminent end to the world which had lately led one bishop to lead his flock out into the desert to meet the returning Lord , requiring a rescue operation by government authority . |
| 17 | The third , Sotoo Tatsumi , was the head of the Sumitomo Bank , a former branch manager of which had illegally procured third-party loans for stock speculators . |
| 18 | The CDU/CDM coalition had been announced on April 3 by the People 's Party ( one of the minor parties allied to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPCz ) before November 1989 , which had since undergone extensive changes in its leadership and policy ) and two parties formed since the November revolution , the ( Czech ) Christian Democratic Party and the ( Slovak ) CDM . |
| 19 | ‘ Railway milk ’ had received its first boost with an outbreak of cattle plague in the mid 1860S which had seriously restricted urban milk production . |
| 20 | The only optimistic statement came from the third cadre of military transport , which had recently held two cell meetings . |
| 21 | As head of the party which had always represented big business interests , he chose his cabinet mainly from the business world : " eight millionaires and a plumber " was a contemporary description — and the plumber , the Secretary of Labor , left within a year . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , much repeal work still displayed the ambiguities which had always marked middle-class women 's participation in the domain of social reform . |
| 23 | The country 's current account , which had consistently recorded large surpluses since the mid-1980s , fell to a $2,100 million deficit in 1990 , compared with a $5,100 million surplus in 1989 . |
| 24 | When the pressures of the market and of urban local democracy ( which had earlier restricted rural development ) were replaced by ministerial investment control and rural pressure group activity at the national level , the consequences for efficiency and equality were not always those which the rival contemporary slogans of left and right might lead one to expect from them . |
| 25 | They sat upright and close against the trunk of a tree in a stand of mature woodland which had miraculously survived industrial upheavals . |
| 26 | In 1866 an alliance between the Bakufu 's two leading opponents , Satsuma and Chó0shó0 , was signed , ending disagreements which had hitherto prevented concerted action , and depriving the Bakufu of Satsuma support for a military expedition mounted to chastise the more radical Choshú0 for its insubordination . |
| 27 | Here is Egisto conversing with his servants in the second scene : There is some realism in the handling of the fair-scene : the impatient cries of the chorus , ‘ Alla fiera , alla fiera ’ , and the soloists selling combs and mirrors , cups and vases , straw hats The gentry sing their arie and duets , sometimes over ostinato basses , but the expansion of the purely musical and scenic elements at the expense of the dramatic , the recitative , which had hitherto characterized Roman opera , was not merely halted but reversed . |
| 28 | By massing overwhelming artillery strength on a short front , and replacing prolonged duration of fire ( which had hitherto given ample warning of attack to the defenders ) by the number of guns employed , he hoped so to disrupt French trench lines that , when the bombardment ceased ; a relatively small German force could advance with little loss . |
| 29 | Publications of this sort broke sharply with the anonymity and complete immunity from public scrutiny which had hitherto marked foreign offices , and were therefore at first greeted in them with doubt or hostility . |
| 30 | Although in the first war years the Party substantially cut down the number of meetings devoted to ‘ training ’ in ideological matters — which had never enjoyed much popularity — and concentrated in its regular work in the localities on trying to fulfil ‘ the popular demand for a more lively participation in the events of the day ’ , as one report put it , it was unable to build up much interest in Party work or to enhance the popularity of the local Party organizations . |