Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the action in the famous Argyll v. Argyll , which concerned the possible disclosure of intimate marital secrets . |
| 2 | This does not mean that conventional men of intelligence and ability thought that either science or society had solved all problems , though in some respects , such as those which concerned the basic pattern of an economy and the basic pattern of the physical universe , some very able ones felt that all substantial ones had been solved . |
| 3 | Tolkien did not believe in ‘ old religions ’ or ‘ witch-cults ’ ; C. S. Lewis wrote a paper called ‘ The Anthropological Approach ’ which damned the learned variety of that error beyond redemption . |
| 4 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 5 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 6 | Their first task was to rebuild the wall which divided the front room from the back parlour . |
| 7 | The UNP — led by Chung Ju Yung , the founder of the Hyundai group , the country 's second-largest industrial conglomerate — secured 31 seats ( 24 in direct voting and seven in the national constituency ) after a vigorous , centrist , pro-business campaign , which attacked the economic record of the Roh government , and in particular its inability to reduce inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of approximately 10 per cent . |
| 8 | For example , when the State Department 's Far Eastern Office was trying , unsuccessfully , to put together a compromise paper that would be agreed with the European Office , one may applaud the objective of an Indo-China that was to be fully self-governed , autonomous , and democratic : but there was a world of difference between a ‘ national ’ and a ‘ federal ’ government which would become obvious as events unfolded and the qualification , which Moffat and his colleagues seemed to accept , to full self-government which was explicit in Indo-China 's recommended partnership in the French Union , and was , by implication reserved to France as a matter of imperial concern , precisely the point , or at least the formality , which produced the irreparable break between France and Ho 's infant Republic . |
| 9 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 10 | Belgium and Luxembourg on March 2 , 1990 , abolished the dual exchange rate used within their monetary union which pegged the Luxembourg-Belgian franc for current commercial transactions while allowing the rate for financial transactions to float freely . |
| 11 | Modern linguistic genealogy began in the 18th century , with Sir William Jones 's comparative studies of Sanskrit , Greek and Latin , which revealed the Indo-European family of languages . |
| 12 | Déby 's rebel forces , a serious irritant throughout 1990 , took power at the end of the year with an ease which revealed the final failure of Habré 's so-called national reconciliation . |
| 13 | Protest was silenced and it was only the new mood of glasnost in the second half of the 1980s which revealed the full extent of what had happened . |
| 14 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 15 | This early text already exemplifies the pattern of narrative passages and meditations upon them which became the regular mode of presentation in the fuller texts of 1805 and 1850 ; and the sophisticated author is only too aware of the division within himself which the method leads to : |
| 16 | By now a confirmed Trotskyist , James had also published several more books : In 1936 , ‘ Minty Alley ’ — a short novel on Trinidad , and then ; in 1937 , ‘ World Revolution ’ — which became the virtual Bible of Trotskyism . |
| 17 | His publications included Electric Light Installations ( 1886 ) , which became the standard work on the subject . |
| 18 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 19 | Even without exploiting it himself , he was apt to give the impression of that ‘ aristocratic ’ radio sneer which became the audible signature of Lord Haw-Haw . |
| 20 | Norse raids down the west coast had already made it necessary to move sacred relics from St Columba 's isle of Iona to relative safety at Dunkeld in Perthshire , which became the ecclesiastical centre of the Scottish realm , though kings continued to be buried on Iona , as did several Viking chieftains . |
| 21 | By the 1930s the country 's bankers had built vast mining-to-manufacturing conglomerates , known as zaibatsu , which became the driving force of Japanese militarism . |
| 22 | In later life his love for seeking that which unites rather than that which divides found full scope in his devotion to Freemasonry , which became the ruling factor of his every action . |
| 23 | However , Buddhist teaching was not applied to fish , which became the main source of protein in the Japanese diet ; and whales were regarded as fish When eating houses renamed forbidden deer and boar meat ‘ mountain whale ’ , the Japanese knew that eating whale meat was likely to stay . |
| 24 | The CSSU , which became the main focus of the study , together with a centralised forward planning unit , employed a total of 150 staff under the joint control of the two Chief Officers . |
| 25 | In these , his use of mirrors and simple room arrangements indicated his developing interest in the modern movement in Europe , which became the main theme of his work in the 1930s , although never to the exclusion of other styles . |
| 26 | A growing and almost unreflective recognition of the diversity and unity within the Godhead led the New Testament writers to make the assertions which became the raw material for later Trinitarian orthodoxy . |
| 27 | Originally fought out in the south and west of Ireland , hostilities then shifted to the north which became the focal point of paramilitary gun battles and sectarian rioting . |
| 28 | And , without waiting for a reply to his question about whether she gave Morton tacit approval for the book which became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing , Philip went on to accuse his daughter-in-law of putting the dignity of the Crown at risk . |
| 29 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 30 | A school of painting grew up in Cuzco which became the leading centre of the production of paintings south of Mexico and exported paintings and painters to many other parts of the continent including remote areas . |