Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations .
2 Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable .
3 Furthermore , the abolition of the school boards was a first step towards reducing the number of overlapping , separately elected , local authorities which had emerged during the preceding seventy years ; and importantly , in the eyes of Balfour and Morant , it would diminish the independence of local education authorities and the consequent considerable variation in the quality of provision , and also reduce the denominational influence upon local education .
4 The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign .
5 In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death .
6 P3731 ( which had arrived from ‘ Argus ’ with 418 Flight in August 1940 ) and V7370 ( which had arrived during the ill-fated second reinforcement flight in November of that year ) reached Palestine , and were later taken on charge by the newly-formed 127 Squadron .
7 This was a technique which had evolved during the 1930s and would hardly have been practical either for Craddock at St Mary 's in 1929 or , perhaps , even for Raistrick in 1931 .
8 The outbreak of war found the Army wearing uniforms which had evolved during the Indian Wars , and which were unsuitable both for tropical campaigning , and for the dawning age of modern warfare .
9 Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years .
10 In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) .
11 The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die .
12 Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb .
13 If the right hon. Gentleman examines completely what has happened during the past year with that objective in mind , he will find that not only have we cut inflation , as I have just said , but we have cut interest rates .
14 He is a most welcome supporter of the Bill It would be helpful if I brought the House up to date on what has happened during the past year , so that hon. Members can take recent developments into account when making up their minds if and when they vote later .
15 However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind .
16 What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ?
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