Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is how the passage appeared in volume form , in the editions of 1867 and 1870 . |
| 2 | She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots . |
| 3 | In this new mood where religion was more important than politics , he thought he would like to see how the Church went in East London , at that time notorious as a depressed urban area within the national life . |
| 4 | Their Lordships are both surprised and disappointed that , right up to the time when this appeal was heard by the Board , no information has been forthcoming to explain how the addendum came into existence and came to be typed , or whether this further statement was sought by the investigating authority or volunteered by the witness . |
| 5 | With regard to how the information appeared in practice , there appeared to be little potential for improvement , except where information or data was subject to routine processing . |
| 6 | The creation myths explain how the world emerged from chaos , a world which to the Egyptian comprised a flat earth , a flat sky above it supported by air and an underworld below the earth through which the sun travelled at night . |
| 7 | It is , of course , vital to confirm that the information is as complete as possible — is there an older member who remembers how the group came into being ? ( assuming the present leader does not ) , and so on . |
| 8 | It was where the court gathered in summer , and those who followed royalty built many great houses in Tsarskoye Selo . |
| 9 | As soon as she gave up dancing in the line to supervise the school , her nubile appearance became plump as she enjoyed dining well , a pleasure shared with John where the plumpness developed into fatness . |
| 10 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 11 | The indoor rowing tank is where the work began before Christmas . |
| 12 | Putting aside what does not concern us here , cases where the petitioner asked for redress against the King himself , we may note two kinds of cases where this extraordinary relief is asked for : |
| 13 | ( B ) ( 5 ) ( c ) : … a quick throw-in is taken , from any point along the touch-line between where the ball went into touch and the goalline of the team throwing in the ball ’ . |
| 14 | Others , though , favour an even more radical change in the line-out laws — arguing in favour of the Japanese proposals which will allow the quick throw-in anywhere behind the point where the ball went into touch . |
| 15 | At the point , in July 1978 , when the Council agreed in principle to create a Committee for Scotland , the CNAA was validating courses with a total enrolment of approaching 9000 students at thirteen Scottish institutions . |
| 16 | The London SCCs originated in part from the Relief Committees established in 1899 by the School Board , and continued by the LCC until they were renamed in 1907 when the Council put into effect section ( 1a ) of the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act 1906 , which called for the establishment of Canteen Committees . |
| 17 | Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies . |
| 18 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 19 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 20 | Now , as though solaced by the memory she said , ‘ I have known times when the water went to ice . |
| 21 | ‘ Black Friday ’ of 1921 , when the alliance collapsed in weakness and recrimination , might be revenged . |
| 22 | The area changed here in 1937 , when the valley went under water and the Hawes Water Reservoir came into being . |
| 23 | Where there has been a gang fight , as a result of which one of the participants is injured , it is sometimes impossible to prove who was responsible for causing the injury ( because of the general mêleé , and because of identification difficulties when the incident occurred at night ) . |
| 24 | It was thought that he would be able to rest better during the day when the unit switched to night shooting , but daughter Emma only a few weeks old — had other ideas . |
| 25 | One classic example — Unit 1 reactor at Seabrook in New Hampshire — was projected to cost almost $5 billion to complete ( seven times the initial estimate ) when the company filed for bankruptcy in 1988 . |
| 26 | For some , the crime may even pay : thus in the Goodrich disc-brake scandal of the late 1960s , when the company attempted to foist a defective brake-disc system on to a customer who happened to be too clever to be deceived , two of the main executives involved were later promoted ( Vandivier 1972 : 33 ) . |
| 27 | Only later , when we saw the photographs , did we appreciate that Donnelly must have been magicked out of the car at the precise millisecond when the car exploded on impact . |
| 28 | On July 11 Jansen left Iraq after delegating her responsibilities to another US national , Mark Silver , who continued to maintain the team 's vigil outside the Ministry of Agriculture ( until July 22 , when the team withdrew in fear of physical reprisals from anti-US and anti-UN demonstrators ) . |
| 29 | This continued until about 1939 when the ceremony passed into history . |
| 30 | And the Government had ruled that planning applications made before July 1988 ( the date when the directive came into operation ) did not need EIAs . |