Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 2 | The Somali Patriotic Movement , which operated in the southern Ogaden , in November 1989 agreed to co-operate with the SNM . |
| 3 | Extensive stretches of mudflats also seemed likely to disappear at Strangford , Co Down , the province 's most important estuary — endangering 50,000 waders , 25,000 wildfowl and 90 per cent of the pale-bellied Brent geese which wintered in the British Isles . |
| 4 | " The skeleton of a micro-organism which lived in the ancient seas from which the chalk in the putty was deposited . |
| 5 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 6 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 7 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
| 8 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 9 | Yet another new style was created when Nonconformist buildings adapted the designs of the public buildings which arose in the final years of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | It could successfully handle the problems which arose in the therapeutic setting with the masochistic patients , always a key requirement of a theoretical change for Freud 's theorizing . |
| 11 | Bultmann , as I mentioned , never speaks in terms of a two-nature Christology of the type which arose in the Greek world . |
| 12 | You have to pay SMP to any woman who has been continuously employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week and whose average weekly earnings are at least equal to the lower earnings limit for NI contributions which applied in the qualifying week . |
| 13 | The main ones were post-war reconstruction , a productivity gap between the USA and the rest which drew American dollars and know-how into Europe and Japan , a sharp upward shift in peacetime levels of public expenditure ( caused by defence needs and welfare transfer payments ) and the absence of general synchronisation in the downswings which occurred in the major economies from time to time . |
| 14 | The case would go to appeal on the issue of whether West German law could apply to events which occurred in the former East German state . |
| 15 | The multilevel and fragmented bargaining which occurred in the private sector was seen as fuelling inflation and making the implementation of incomes policy more difficult . |
| 16 | A policewoman discovered the blaze which occurred in the early hours of yesterday . |
| 17 | Police said the assault , which occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning at Chesnut House in St James Drive , Bootle , had been brutal and apparently without motive . |
| 18 | Furthermore , in the great flowering of Viennese intellectual life which occurred in the last decade of the nineteenth century , the party contributed a galaxy of famous intellectuals — Karl Kautsky ( who , through his journal , Neue Zeit , and his role in the German party , became the most influential Marxist of his time ) , Victor Adler himself and his mentor , Carl Gruneberg , Max Adler , Otto Bauer , Rudolf Hilferding , Karl Renner etc . |
| 19 | The first meeting of the committee received a resolution from a conference held under the auspices of the society and the Canning Town branch of the guild which rejoiced in the wider powers given under the act , and urged the council to ‘ take steps to exercise any , or all of the powers given , and especially that steps be taken as soon as possible to establish a creche or day nursery in the southern part of the borough ’ ( Maternity and Child Welfare Committee Minutes 20 November 18 ) . |
| 20 | This improvement was achieved despite losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ totalling $65m net of external reinsurance , $20m of which came in the final quarter . |
| 21 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 22 | Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan . |
| 23 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 24 | And his triumph , which came in the Orange Bowl 14 and under tournament in Florida , has sparked a revolution of optimism among juniors in this country . |
| 25 | Rosslyn Park , going backwards constantly and finding their defence overrun , inevitably conceded penalties , the first of which came in the fourth minute . |
| 26 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 27 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 28 | Their regimes may have been impoverished by the emphasis on security and restrictions on movement within the prison , but at least the physical settings avoided the squalor and overcrowding which worsened in the local prisons . |
| 29 | This is the theory of social evolution which flourished in the nineteenth century from the stimulus of Darwin 's Origin of Species and which is most closely associated with Herbert Spencer . |
| 30 | Tanganyika 's local press , which flourished in the pre-independence period with government support , collapsed soon after independence , for the simple reason that , unlike the colonial administration , the TANU government spent all the funds available for the press on supporting its own papers published in the capital . |