Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ajayi smiled and nodded , perhaps at the man , perhaps at the thin , wavering line of squares which seemed to hang in the air over the small circular table . |
| 2 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 3 | Ockleton 's mop of jet black hair , his apple-cheeked face and the spectacles which had slid to the end of his nose combined with a tattered gown and a skew-knotted tie to create an impression of immaturity entirely at odds with his voice . |
| 4 | Revocation of an objective regime would only be possible with the consent of all parties which had consented to the regime and ‘ have substantial interest in its functioning ’ . |
| 5 | The results were , however , contested by 14 of the parties which had participated in the elections . |
| 6 | On Dec. 3 Valentin Kuptsev , leader of the RCP until the ban , called for the parties which had emerged from the CPSU to prepare a revival of the party . |
| 7 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 8 | As compulsory state education absorbed the higgledy-piggledy assortment of church , charity and board grammar schools which had emerged over the 200 or so years of industrial Britain , the essentially utilitarian character of schooling was never quite extinguished . |
| 9 | He continued in words which became known as the Kilmuir rules : |
| 10 | The people of the Middle Ages inherited sea-walls and drainage channels which had survived from the Roman occupation . |
| 11 | Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach . |
| 12 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |
| 13 | The pie parade , which included about fifty floats which had started from the neighbouring village of Scissett , arrived late at the pie field , having been stuck on various sections of the route , including the entrance to the field itself . |
| 14 | Unknown aliens had crafted all such force rods which had fallen into the hands of the Imperium , most notably the cache found in the ice-caverns of Karsh XIII . |
| 15 | A neutral eyewitness reported that the building holding the stores of planks , pitch and cordage was entirely destroyed , while of the 600 shells which had fallen in the town 100 had landed on the basin and harbour . |
| 16 | Of the 60 or so gill-net vessels which had worked around the peninsula in the late 1970s , only half a dozen remained by 1986 . |
| 17 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the abolition of the school boards was a first step towards reducing the number of overlapping , separately elected , local authorities which had emerged during the preceding seventy years ; and importantly , in the eyes of Balfour and Morant , it would diminish the independence of local education authorities and the consequent considerable variation in the quality of provision , and also reduce the denominational influence upon local education . |
| 19 | At this stage Castro , at least in public , was holding himself aloof from two disputing tendencies which had emerged from the various parties to the revolution . |
| 20 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 21 | Manhattan District Court Judge Milton Pollack announced on March 9 that a single " global " settlement had been reached to the hundreds of civil litigation suits which had arisen from the 1990 collapse of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank [ see pp. 37412-13 ; 37848 ] . |
| 22 | In the face of mounting defeats , personal losses , misery , and sacrifice , Hitler 's earlier successes began to be seen in a new light , and he was now increasingly blamed for policies which had led to the war , and for his failure to terminate the war and produce the desired peace . |
| 23 | Drexel 's collapse is especially painful for those junk-bond issuers which had counted on the investment bank to restructure their debt . |
| 24 | In the discussions which had led to the creation of the ECSC , other economic sectors such as transport and agriculture had been highlighted as being ripe for similar developments . |
| 25 | This was due largely to rationalization programmes which attempted to dispose of the smaller and unprofitable public houses , though these were offset by a continuing commitment to improving the appearance and amenities of the larger remaining houses . |
| 26 | Only the 13 legalized opposition groups which had participated at the conference were allowed to put up candidates . |
| 27 | The Anonimalle Chronicle 's account of de la Mare 's selection does not give the impression that it was usual to choose a speaker , though it is possible that the small groups which had appeared before the lords on behalf of the commons in earlier parliaments had chosen one of their number to speak on their behalf . |
| 28 | Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile . |
| 29 | Even the birds which had swarmed across the sky had disappeared . |
| 30 | For 1991 , it was decided to combine the support posts which had existed at the Data Archive and at Manchester in a single unit . |