Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is what happened , and we now realise that we must take away from such authorities that most unjust tool with which they managed to acquire electoral support that they did not deserve and have unscrupulously used . |
| 2 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 3 | President Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan ( the ruler of Abu Dhabi ) visited Oman on May 1-4 for talks with Oman 's ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said , during which they agreed to raise diplomatic representation between the two countries to ambassadorial level . |
| 4 | Reports on March 26 , quoting Kurdish sources , said that Kurdish pesh merga guerrillas had been in control of the oil centre of Kirkuk for seven days during which they had sustained intensive shelling and air attacks by Iraqi government forces . |
| 5 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |
| 6 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 7 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 8 | Second , although Ellis and Muller found no difference between their distinctiveness and observation training conditions , there was evidence for a superiority of the distinctiveness group over one given equivalence training in which they had to apply one label to half of the shapes and another label to the rest . |
| 9 | Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Byelarus , the three former Soviet republics in addition to Russia with nuclear weapons on their territories , signed a protocol to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on May 23 in which they pledged to eliminate nuclear weapons by the end of the decade . |
| 10 | contribution will have been abolished , those on income support will still receive that extra money , which they started to receive two years ago ? |
| 11 | Wounded FMLN guerrillas in San Salvador board a plane , believed to be bound for Chile , after they were evacuated from the Mexican Embassy , which they occupied to demand safe passage |
| 12 | In the course of their literature search , on 16 April Palmer found a 1978 paper by the three Soviets — B. Mamyrin , L. Khabarin and V. Yudenich — in which they reported finding excessive amounts of helium-3 in various metals . |
| 13 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 14 | But in the end their greatest impact was the way in which they helped to change most people 's way of lite and in so doing changed much of the landscape . |
| 15 | Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day . |
| 16 | Everyone in Knockglen heard about it in record time , but what they heard bore little relation to the facts . |
| 17 | Atkinson went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 18 | He went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 19 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 20 | He leafed through the stack of notes that was the result of their questioning everyone in the area about what they had seen that morning . |
| 21 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |