Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 2 | Fireflies were also among aircraft which attacked the Japanese carrier Kaiyo on July 24 , leaving her ablaze with a broken back . |
| 3 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
| 4 | It was an easy promise to make , since Stevenson 's had the contract to extend the New Treasury Building , which housed the chaotic Railway Office , which , in turn , was a division of the Board of Trade . |
| 5 | They set off , soon reaching their destination , a small village accessible by one unfinished road , located near the complex which housed the Nazi research team . |
| 6 | When the Boards were abolished in 1902 , the Women 's Local Government Society fought to have women elected to the County and Borough Councils , which became the new Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) . |
| 7 | Wills , which became the Imperial Tobacco Company , were descended from Anthony Wills who was born c. 1510 and owned property in Cornwall . |
| 8 | Krase , who was sacked by the Defence Ministry in 1984 for incompetence over the affair and died in 1988 , had prepared the MAD reports which led the then Defence Minister Manfred Wörner to dismiss Kiessling . |
| 9 | Robyn watched from the shelter of the long cream curtains which shrouded the vast downstairs window , her finger curled thankfully around the mug of hot , hot coffee . |
| 10 | In November 19X1 the Bank of England defined a new monetary sector which amalgamated the old banking sector with a number of other related institutions . |
| 11 | Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth . |
| 12 | Key recommendations included ( i ) the establishment of an expanded National Peace Committee ( NPC ) with permanent local and regional offices which would replace dispute resolution committees ; ( ii ) the stationing of 30 UN observers who would serve with the NPC and would draw on the experience of the UN team which monitored the mass action campaign ; ( iii ) the provision of UN assistance to the Goldstone Commission for full-scale inquiries into the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , the South African Police ( SAP ) and the Kwazulu Police as well as the armed wing of the ANC , Umkhonto we Sizwe , and its Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) equivalents ; the Commission 's findings , hitherto presented to the government , would be released to the multiparty NPC ; ( iv ) UN reassessment of its role every three months ; ( v ) the resumption of constitutional negotiations as soon as possible with the establishment of a " deadlock-breaking " mechanism ; ( v ) the appointment of " an eminent and impartial person " to convene the talks ; ( vi ) the urgent release of political prisoners ; and ( vii ) an end to the bias of the state broadcasting services . |
| 13 | In July of that year he followed the Toolmakers ' Society into the merger which created the Amalgamated Engineering Union and in the same month became a founder-member of the Communist party of Great Britain , in which the BSP was absorbed . |
| 14 | He appealed on the ground that the prosecution on the second indictment contravened section 20(8) of the Constitution of Jamaica , which embodied the common law doctrine of autrefois convict . |
| 15 | Monopolistic employers ' associations , combined enterprises , and the penetration of banking capital into industry created a new model of production relations , which transformed the unorganised commodity capitalist system into a finance capitalist organisation . |
| 16 | I have seen one production which used the 1603 quarto version , one which used the uncut Folio text , but the majority were ‘ constructed ’ texts , omitting different passages and scenes from what is a very long play . |
| 17 | Three Fokker Dr.I replicas made for a fascinating sight , added to which came the Great War Combat Team and a decidedly real SE.5A . |
| 18 | Following our report in the September issue on the accident which befell the British Makrong Chhish Expedition , this year 's Nick Escourt Award winner , we have received further information from Geoff Tyson , father of David Tyson — one of the climbers who died . |
| 19 | As work continued to seal the reactor ( whose current condition was the subject of some alarming reports , despite the original claim that it had been " entombed " successfully in concrete by November 1986 — see p. 34749 ) , the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet passed a series of laws in early April which reduced the permissible radiation level , and , as a result , would lead to the evacuation of a further 73,000 people from the Chernobyl area , bringing the total moved since the accident to 250,000 . |
| 20 | As he is a victim of his own loyalty to the England cause , the RFU 's credibility can only be maintained if he is compensated — even if this means contradicting the edict of the 1890's which caused the original rugby league to break from the union code . |
| 21 | Piatakov , a Ukrainian , now argued that , following Lenin 's April theses , prepared on his return to Russia , which rejected the existing party policy of supporting the provisional government and set the Party on the road to the seizure of power , socialism was on the immediate agenda , not the establishment of a bourgeois republic . |
| 22 | In outlining its attitude towards ‘ the Jewish Question ’ , Vanguard seemed prima facie to be taking a stance which rejected the whole conspiracy theory of politics . |
| 23 | Upon his return from Paris Le Duc Tho travelled secretly to South Vietnam to direct the final military assault ( the " Ho Chi Minh Campaign " ) on Saigon which toppled the US-backed Thieu regime in 1975 . |
| 24 | Here in the basement and behind Mr Pegg was Bill Joyner and his wrapping counter , beyond which roared the mighty Goss Printing Press which poured out 300 copies of the 16-page daily every minute . |
| 25 | In retrospect , it was not ideal for the Promenade and Fleetwood route , with its more resilient sleeper track and the blowing sand , which affected the roof-mounted control unit . |
| 26 | The Greenpeace report , which studied the toxic waste incinerator plans of 18 countries , claimed incinerator technology to be unsafe and inefficient and to put communities at risk from dangerous waste products . |
| 27 | The hall in which the manservant greeted them was theatrically lit from the Regency gothic windows of stained glass which threw the early evening sun in coloured patterns on to the black and white marbled floor . |
| 28 | For much of the eighty-year period which separated the Elizabethan church settlement from the civil war , the leaders of the English church made strenuous efforts to accommodate these two very different religious outlooks within its deliberately broad boundaries . |
| 29 | The nineteenth century saw the emergence of two specific practices which separated the so-called méthode champenoise from the ‘ rural method ’ of Limoux . |
| 30 | However , Mar delayed in an attempt to raise more men , which allowed the British government time to build up concentrations of its own troops and collect reinforcements from its foreign allies . |