Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
2 | Like other Marranos in London , Carvajal prayed at the Catholic chapel of the Spanish ambassador , while simultaneously playing a leading role in the secret Jewish community , which met at the clandestine synagogue at Creechurch Lane . |
3 | Also , the amalgamation of unions which occurred at a rapid pace throughout the inter-war years greatly improved the organization and effectiveness of the trade union movement as the years progressed . |
4 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
5 | It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation . |
6 | The enormous increase in the demand for lace was largely due to the fashion for lace curtains which came at the same time as a huge house-building programme , and buyers came from home and abroad to negotiate their deals in the Lace Market . |
7 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
8 | There the officer class , which consisted at the regimental level largely of provincial nobles with a well-developed military tradition , showed itself increasingly hostile to the purchase of commissions by rich bourgeois , even if recently ennobled , and to the invasion of the army by the power of money . |
9 | The retrospective exhibition of the art of Alfred Sisley which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts at the beginning of July closes in London on 18 October but continues , with a slightly different selection of works , at the Musée d'Orsay , Paris ( 30 October-31 January 1993 ) and at the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore ( 14 March-13 June 1993 ) , its only venue in the United States . |
10 | Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems Inc started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor by the fourth quarter of 1996 . |
11 | Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor part by the fourth quarter of 1996 . |
12 | As is usual with a carnival , it started with a Fancy Dress Procession around the parish , which finished at the Shady Bower Field , and a great deal of thought went into the entries . |
13 | How much to vary the product according to the market was a problem which hit at the very heart of the business . |
14 | Discussions on these and other subjects , which started at the first consultation two years ago , will be developed further next August at the Third Indonesian Consultation on Theology and Communication . |
15 | The one who had accompanied him chasing the car simply glowered in the direction it had gone , while the other one , who had n't fired a shot , writhed by the roadside , trying to clutch a leg which trailed at an unnatural angle . |
16 | Following this was the rodeo World Championships on the Bitches which decided at the last minute to include a ladies ' competition . |
17 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
18 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
19 | The decline was mainly due to lower non-oil imports , which fell at an annual rate of 14% between the fourth quarter of 1990 and the first quarter of this year . |
20 | The leading sector , in terms of annual growth , had been data-processing equipment , which grew at an annual average of 30 per cent in real terms . |
21 | Surely there were many which went at a slow tempo , such as the first Beethoven Modlinger Dance I mentioned in my original article , the rapid-fire tattoos of its French horns ensuring a slow pace . |
22 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
23 | These policies were incorporated into the Fifth Plan , formulated in 1964 and 1965 , which aimed at an annual rate of growth of profits of 8.6 per cent between 1964 and 1970 . |
24 | Metty is a misfit , as Golding 's Matty is in Darkness Visible , a novel which appeared at the same time as Naipaul 's . |
25 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
26 | a nationalism which stood upon a critique of the very idea of civil society , a movement supported by the bourgeoisie which rejected the idea of progress , the ideology of a political organisation fighting for the creation of a modern national State which accepted at the same time the ideology of ‘ enlightened anarchy ’ . |
27 | But in this period his salary , although not extravagant , was generous enough : the priest at Longdendale was allocated less than half the Master 's £10 , which stood at the higher level of salaries , ranging from £4 6 0d to £12 6 0d , at this time for such a position . |
28 | Yet Lord Burghley , Master of the Wards from 1561 to 1598 , made no attempt to exploit this revenue to the full : his period of control witnessed an immediate fall in the court 's income , which remained at a low level until his son took over . |
29 | At 31 , he already suffers from arthritis in the mis-shapen left arm that is the legacy of his first National ride , which ended at the third fence . |
30 | Second , just as Dear 's image of a few hundred ‘ young black criminals ’ was used to explain what happened in Handsworth , the problem of drugs was used to explain what happened at a national level . |