Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 2 | In the light of the serious situation which has arisen in relation to the Maxwell case , will my right hon. Friend take a good look at the pension funds of ABG Research , which is about to be wound up ? |
| 3 | For Crohn 's disease , which has increased in frequency during the past 20–30 years , an additional three classes were defined for dead subjects based on their age and year of death ( table II ) . |
| 4 | On the face of it there are more contrasts than resemblances between , for example , the brand of empirical and then linguistic philosophy which has predominated in England in recent decades , the existentialist thought which has led the way in western Europe , and the critical reflection on human history and society on a broadly Marxist basis which has naturally held sway in communist countries , but more recently come more to the fore in the west as well . |
| 5 | Ultimately , the most a firm can do is , so far as practicable , utilise all the techniques outlined above , and hope that the courts will take a commercial view and hold that a firm which has acted in accordance with best practice is protected from liability . |
| 6 | The preoccupation with providing for widows is one outcome of the high marriage rate for women which has persisted in Britain since World War 11 . |
| 7 | Tiphook , which has chipped in $14.8million towards the $103million ‘ sweetener ’ , will get the container operations . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ) ; |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | They were helped by trends of thought which had developed in Greece in the fourth century . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | At the same time he went through all books which had appeared in England on these sciences . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 24 | As had happened before with the labour education programs , the organisations which had been working with Highlander , and which had grown in depth of perspective and experience , took over the running of their own grass roots educational activities . |
| 25 | Of meetings which had begun in London in 1645 , the mathematician John Wallis could say : These remarks indicate the scope that existed by the mid-seventeenth century for differentiation between the sciences . |
| 26 | The shambling uprising of anti-war Guevara-dreamers which had begun in Cambridge in October 1967 with a demonstration against Harold Wilson , leading to some skirmishing with police , had spread through the universities of the country . |
| 27 | Fighting which had begun in August between Georgian troops and Abkhazian separatists in the autonomous region of Abkhazia threatened in September to draw Russia into conflict with Georgia . |
| 28 | He had reportedly criticized the kingdom 's policies in his Friday prayer sermons , opposed the presence of US troops , and put his name to a collective letter by a group of Moslem clerics to the country 's supreme theologian , Sheikh Abdel-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz , expressing opposition to the US-sponsored Middle East peace conference which had begun in Madrid in October 1991 . |
| 29 | By comparison , the death toll during the period of unrest which had begun in Soweto in June 1976 [ see pp. 27886-88 ] and had lasted until October 1977 , had been 700 . |
| 30 | The new law , passed by the US Senate on Sept. 20 [ see p. 39090 ] and the House of Representatives on Oct. 2 , made it illegal for the subsidiaries of US companies based anywhere in the world to trade with Cuba , and closed US ports to any ship which had called in Cuba within the previous six months . |