Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% .
2 The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups .
3 Carry on like this throughout the row until only one is left , which goes on the last needle , overlapping the one already on it .
4 For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division .
5 In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really .
6 It may be convenient for the last record to have a pointer which points to the first record in that list , in which case the list is a circular list , ring or chain ( see Figure 5.11 ) .
7 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 .
8 Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant .
9 The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 .
10 In the second half it was pretty much a similar story , Leeds pressing from the start , then a Soton injury , then a lovely classy move which led to the first goal .
11 It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade .
12 There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw .
13 At the back of this room there was a door which led into the second room .
14 Late in 1950 the French Minister of Agriculture , Pierre Pflimlin , announced at the Council of Europe — and proposed later in March 1951 to the non-member states of Austria , Portugal and Switzerland — something which amounted to a second Schuman Plan , in that it contained similar ultimate objectives : a common market directed by supranational institutions .
15 The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman !
16 Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence .
17 The nearest you get to this is the thrilling moment at the end of Act One when , as though he had engendered them , the thunder and lightning which usher in the next act and a complete change of country , melodramatically erupt during Iago 's concluding lines .
18 It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ .
19 This is the opportunity for senior managers to endorse warnings for vigilance or diligence , which they do occasionally , and for sergeants to review both the incidents which occurred on the last shift and the matters which need special attention on the present one .
20 The changes in the constellation of European powers which occurred during the eighteenth century had an indirect bearing on the destiny of the South Slav peoples .
21 Margolis , in a similar study , found that there was an initial build-up of citations which occurred until the third year after publication .
22 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 .
23 It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation .
24 Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low .
25 Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period .
26 What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) .
27 Part of the reliquary consisted of a gold inscription plaque which referred to the fourteenth year of a particular Gadhara king , enabling the experts to date it precisely .
28 The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups .
29 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 ) .
30 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 .
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