Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the [num ord] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 4 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 5 | Ten of the 25 practices in the Oxford Regional Health Authority which entered the first wave of the fundholding scheme were asked to continue collecting referral data for a further year . |
| 6 | The pro-nuclear scientists say it was a necessary prototype which spawned the next generation of power stations . |
| 7 | They were dismayed by the crop of books and articles which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Wales 's marriage and Diana 's 30th birthday . |
| 8 | Dubosc 's contribution to the field of Chinese studies included the 1954 exhibition in Venice which commemorated the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo 's visit to China . |
| 9 | But it was the failure of the Windscale Inquiry to represent adequately the protesters ' arguments which encouraged the first example of direct action in this country . |
| 10 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
| 11 | Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career . |
| 12 | From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life . |
| 13 | Early in 1938 two summations of his work were published : Essays Ancient and Modern in March and , a month later , Collected Poems 1909–1935 which included the first publication of " Burnt Norton " . |
| 14 | Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ . |
| 15 | Theodora leaned over the white rail fence which formed the fourth side of Yaxlee 's yard . |
| 16 | The turning point in community reaction came with the campaign against uranium prospecting and mining , which represented the second wave of mineral exploration . |
| 17 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 18 | This claim illuminates one of the recurrent features of the military history of the period ; the frequent presence of the men of one civitas or another on campaign , above all during the civil wars which bedevilled the second half of the sixth century , when rivalry between cities seems to have exacerbated problems . |
| 19 | Furber was also one of the Society of Gardeners led by Miller which published the first part of its Catalogus Plantarum in 1730 , but by then he had issued two catalogues of his own , one of English and foreign trees , the other of ‘ the Best and Choicest Fruit Trees ’ ( both in 1727 ) . |