Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The forthcoming work will aim to remove the layer of dirt which has accumulated over the last thirty years not surprisingly , since the church is located in one of the most polluted parts of Florence . |
2 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
3 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
4 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
5 | In spite of the claims of the success of the Thatcher years , Mr Lang will emphasise the need for Scotland to fill that critical gap which has emerged over the last 13 years . |
6 | It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s . |
7 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
8 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
9 | Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years . |
10 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
11 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
12 | The devaluation of sterling from September onwards and its significant effect on raw material costs put pressure on margins which has continued into the first quarter of 1993 . |
13 | Brightreason will now have 20 per cent of the booming pizza market , which has doubled over the last eight years . |
14 | In particular the area 's unemployment rate which has doubled in the last 18 months . |
15 | His argument will pivot on the spiralling bill for legal aid , which has doubled in the last five years , reaching £83 million last year . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
19 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
20 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
21 | Bishops were unlikely to help them , for " Whatever the cost , even if it means the destruction of the church , [ bishops ] try to preserve that power and significance which prelates possessed in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries " . |
22 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
23 | He kicked another stone , which went rocketing after the first one . |
24 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
25 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
26 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
27 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
28 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
29 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
30 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |