Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To conclude this chapter , we will look at another observational technique which has benefited from developments in audio and video technology , in which again the role of the observer is to be a detached onlooker , and in which detailed analyses of social activity are made . |
| 32 | Tiphook , which has chipped in $14.8million towards the $103million ‘ sweetener ’ , will get the container operations . |
| 33 | However , it did not prevent , in the winter of 1921–2 , an appalling famine afflicting the southern districts of the Ukraine , ‘ the worst ’ , a League of Nations report declared , ‘ both as regards the numbers affected and as regards the mortality from starvation and disease which has occurred in Europe in modern times ’ . |
| 34 | ( 2 ) No direction shall be made under this rule in proceedings which stand referred for arbitration under Ord 29 , r 2(3) . |
| 35 | In any event , in the court 's opinion , the submissions which counsel made in support of grounds of appeal 1 , 2 and 3 were misconceived . |
| 36 | There is as yet no shift in the overall direction of the group , which remains dominated in terms of political action by its monopoly catholic and nationalist constituencies . |
| 37 | She loved to move her money around , a process which had suffered from acceleration since the stock market collapse of the autumn of 1987 . |
| 38 | By the end of 1989 Panama had also been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of $150,000,000 which had accumulated on loans of $337,000,000 from that body . |
| 39 | The cancellation served to block the probable overall electoral victory of the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , which had emerged as winner in the first round of voting on Dec. 26 . |
| 40 | Japan 's devastation of a country which had lost to Namibia on the eve of the World Cup was noting less than a scandal and a disgrace to international rugby . |
| 41 | Hellenistic culture interfered with the parallel developments of individual cultures which had extended from China to Greece in previous centuries . |
| 42 | Groen Links ( Green Left , Ria Beckers l. , formed 1991 with the dissolution of the Radical Political Party , the Pacifist Socialist Party , the Communist Party of the Netherlands [ see also below ] and the Evangelical People 's Party , which had campaigned in alliance in the last general election ) ; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij ( SGP — Political Reformed Party , Bas van der Vlies parliamentary l . ) ; |
| 43 | A political storm which had developed in September around the proposed sale of 35 small islands in the Bay of Argolis and the Saronic Gulf abated after a government official , Byron Polydoras , on Oct. 14 assured journalists that the proposals had been that " certain rocky islets " should be leased — not sold — " on a long-term basis for tourist development " . |
| 44 | They were helped by trends of thought which had developed in Greece in the fourth century . |
| 45 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 46 | As she rose , her eyes , which had flicked from side to side , looked him in the face for the first time . |
| 47 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 48 | It seemed to provide an envoi to the policies and economics of consensus , which had coincided with decades of calamitous financial and international decline . |
| 49 | At the same time he went through all books which had appeared in England on these sciences . |
| 50 | Rising expectations of a successful conclusion of peace talks between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) were realized on May 1 , when a ceasefire was agreed and a peace agreement initialled [ see also page 38133 ] to end a civil war which had raged since independence from Portugal in 1975 . |
| 51 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 52 | That year , therefore , saw the re-establishment of a principle which had existed in Scotland for centuries , namely ‘ the arrangement by which the formation of the records is committed to one set of officers and the custody of them to another ’ ( Conveyancing Lectures , Menzies , 2nd Edn , 1856 , p 165 ) . |
| 53 | But underlying all these was the fact that the power of the Polish monarchy had evaporated since its elective character ( which had existed in theory since the 1430s ) had become finally established in practice from the 1570s onwards . |
| 54 | In a move reminiscent of the 1991 summit which had ended with meetings between G-7 leaders and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev , G-7 leaders held post-summit talks with Russian President Boris Yeltsin who had been formally invited in June . |
| 55 | In a general election in June 1989 [ see pp. 36739-40 ] the Christian Social Party ( PCS ) and the Socialists , which had governed in coalition since June 1984 [ see p. 33298 ] , were returned to power . |
| 56 | The last general election was in June 1989 when the Christian Social Party and the Socialists , which had governed in coalition since July 1984 , were returned to power [ see pp. 36739-40 ] . |
| 57 | In a general election on May 9 , 1987 , the Nationalist Party narrowly defeated the Labour Party which had governed in Malta for the previous 16 years . |
| 58 | Gen. Dharsono , a former Secretary-General of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) , was an associate , but not a signatory , of the " Petition of 50 " movement of dissidents which had risen to prominence in 1984 with the publication of a " Save Democracy " pamphlet [ see pp. 33286-87 ] . |
| 59 | The ULFA , a Maoist group which had risen to prominence in 1990 , controlled large tracts of upper Assam and had carried out a series of assassinations , kidnappings and bomb attacks . |
| 60 | Four days later the Military Council , which had ruled in Georgia since the flight of Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January [ see pp. 38731-32 ] , transferred its legislative and executive powers to a newly created State Council of which Shevardnadze was to be the chair . |