Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing inevitable or god given about this unequal distribution , and it is that which produced the impersonal free labour market and the exploitation . |
| 2 | Industrial policy was effectively hijacked from the Department of Industry to No. 10 and the Cabinet 's Public Enterprise Committee , which produced the 1974 White Paper on the Regeneration of Industry with its watered-down National Enterprise Board and voluntary planning agreements . |
| 3 | In my Working Group 's recommendations for the teaching of literature we tried to balance the arguments for national unity with the need for a curriculum which respected the present cultural diversity of our society ( the same desire for unity and diversity underpins our recommendations on Standard English and dialects ) . |
| 4 | It was transport which became the first post-ECSC target . |
| 5 | Mayne quickly established himself as the most exceptional officer in Stirling 's rapidly expanding SAS force , which became the 1st Special Air Service Regiment in September 1942 , with Stirling in command as lieutenant-colonel . |
| 6 | Camdessus praised Estonia 's handling of the introduction of its own currency , the kroon , which became the sole legal tender on June 20 [ see p. 38971 ] . |
| 7 | The government then produced its own , which became the 1956 Clean Air Act , forbidding ‘ dark smoke ’ as defined on an objective scale . |
| 8 | This role was conceded to the National Institute for the Deaf which became The Royal National Institute for the Deaf , ( RNID ) in 1961 . |
| 9 | The Socialist parties suffered from the consequences of the Second International 's theory of revolution in stages ( which led the Argentine Socialist Party to support US interventions in the Caribbean ) and its under-estimation of the power of nationalism . |
| 10 | THE violent thunder storms which interrupted the recent fine weather , brought problems to the Welsh highland Railway on the night of Thursday May 28 . |
| 11 | Saqr was a leading member of a well-known family of the traditional merchant class which owned the leading liberal newspaper , al-Qabas . |
| 12 | Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe . |
| 13 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 14 | He built , to his own design , the steamship Robert Fulton , which made the first successful ocean voyage off the east coast of America , sailing from New York to Havana . |
| 15 | It was not any supposed inherently violent trait in the Spanish character , but this element of desperation which made the Spanish Civil War the brutally barbaric conflict it was . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century British consumption , rising steadily at a bit over 2 per cent a year , was more buoyant than the re-export trade , which made the British preferential tariff more advantageous to the planters . |
| 17 | I need some paint , ’ she explained awkwardly , which got the same astonished reaction she 'd had from Leo . |
| 18 | Isa Kambarov , chair of the Milli Majlis , would chair the party , which succeeded the existing New Musavat party . |
| 19 | The Derek Johnstone case and the financial problems which beset the former Scottish goalkeeper Alan Rough testify to the downside of football 's financial spiral . |
| 20 | Unisys Corp has taken another step in its return to fiscal probity with an upgrading of its debt from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which moved the senior unsecured debt rating up to Ba3 from B1 , the subordinated debt to B2 from B3 and the preferred stock to b3 from ca . |
| 21 | Instead an agreement on Austria was concluded between the Great Powers in 1955 which provided the best European example of regulated neutrality , of a modern version of neutralisation . |
| 22 | There Dorothy was educated first by a governess and then in the intellectually stimulating environment of Southborough House , which provided the only formal education she valued in retrospect . |
| 23 | His ancestral village and its myths were three hundred years in the past , and the clear , blue waters of the bay were a sludge of industrial effluent through which thrashed the occasional blinded seabird . |
| 24 | On Feb. 12 , 1990 , the second round of voting in the municipal by-election of Le Luc ( Var department ) saw an alliance between the head of the RPR-UDF list and that of the FN which defeated the incumbent socialist mayor . |
| 25 | He announced the results of a survey of 400 vets working in 600 slaughterhouses which found the average hourly rate was £25.70 . |
| 26 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 27 | The area had effectively been abandoned as a port in favour of new sites further down the Thames which used the then new technology of roll on/roll off container ships . |
| 28 | The largest fixed-rate offering ever witnessed in the Eurobond market , a $1.5bn five-year deal announced on Friday for Italy , which used the new money-making formula , provides disturbing evidence however that excessive competition , born of over-capacity , could yet ruin the latest attempts at restoring profitability to the market . |
| 29 | A recent study which used the western blotting technique also showed an antibody against granulocytes in similar patients . |
| 30 | It has even been suggested by some historians , that the series gave impetus to the building of the Thames Embankment , which prevented the regular disastrous flooding of the homes of poor people . |