Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 2 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 3 | The collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe prompted the formation of new regional groupings and alliances as well as giving a new lease of life to existing organizations which straddled the former east-west divide . |
| 4 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |
| 5 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 6 | In contrast to the managerial goals which underpinned the attempted introduction of quality circles , Ford regards the creation of such formal structures as secondary to gradual infusion of employee involvement in routine collective bargaining . |
| 7 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 8 | In August the DHAC announced a public meeting at the Diamond with a list of invited speakers which included the Catholic Bishop of Derry , the mayor , three Nationalist councillors , a curate from St Eugene 's Catholic Cathedral , the city 's medical officer of health and John Hume . |
| 9 | With the help of the United Nations Institute for Namibia ( UNIN ) and other agencies , SWAPO developed a network of schools which served the large refugee population in camps in Angola and Zambia . |
| 10 | Even though there was a serious risk that its reaction with the hot burning metal would cause a hydrogen explosion , thousands of gallons of water at the highest pressure possible were pumped through the channels which held the burning fuel . |
| 11 | The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions . |
| 12 | The Ottawa Conference of July and August 1932 paved the way for increased trade between the nations which formed the British Empire and thus effectively operated a system of protection . |
| 13 | The 50-year ban , which now needs to be ratified by the governments of the 26 " voting members " of the Treaty , was a compromise between those nations which favoured the eventual opening of the Antarctic to mineral exploitation ( notably the USA and UK ) , and those which supported proposals for the continent to be declared a " world park " ( led by Australia and France ) . |
| 14 | It follows a winding course through low-lying water meadows , between the piers which supported the old railway arch ( unused in the wake of Dr Beeching ) , down through attractive wooded slopes to Steeple Mill . |
| 15 | Most seamen in trading ships as well as those in the vessels which performed the remarkable feat of transporting the whole of the British Expeditionary Force , together with horses , guns and full equipment to France by September 1914 , profited from the £pound1 increase , while the union threw its full weight behind its undertaking to maintain the supply of seamen . |
| 16 | The adaptive expectations hypothesis had come to earlier prominence in Philip Cagan 's ( 1956 ) path breaking study of the monetary dynamics of the European hyperinflations which followed the Great War . |
| 17 | Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era . |
| 18 | He was making a small fortune with his spectacular ballets which toured the whole year round . |
| 19 | The different budgets maintained by health and local authorities which made the desired shift in resources from health to social services difficult to organize . |
| 20 | Unfortunately his exposition was not easy to read and it was Hamilton 's quaternions which gained the more attention . |
| 21 | God 's authority would sometimes flash across the universe in miracles and signs which illuminated the true nature of Satan 's shadowed kingdom . |
| 22 | No description of the ammonoids is complete without mentioning the heteromorphs These are forms which abandoned the usual plane spiral mode of coiling , and instead became partially or even completely uncoiled , or became twisted in some other fashion . |
| 23 | After all , electronic communications has many similarities to the oral technologies which pre-dated the written word . |
| 24 | The central poem of her volume , which celebrates the ‘ worthy mind ’ of her patron Margaret , dowager Countess of Cumberland , is remarkable for managing to avoid the identification of female virtue with chastity , articulating in its place a feminine mastery of those dialectical skills which constituted the humanist ideal of masculine virtue . |
| 25 | The increasing specification of sexual behaviour outside the family , which was a product of nineteenth-century sexology and criminal practice , served only to enhance the importance of those definitions which traversed the domestic hearth . |
| 26 | After Thursday 's rampage by crowds which burned the Venezuelan Embassy , Col Muammar Gaddafi appealed for ‘ self-restraint ’ and ordered more troops on to the streets to protect foreign missions , Libyan radio said . |
| 27 | Successive Conservative governments implemented policies which reversed the slight trend for income redistribution to poorer groups . |
| 28 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
| 29 | Two of the cities which had the finest heritage , Gdansk ( Danzig ) and Wroclaw ( Breslau ) , suffered the greatest destruction . |
| 30 | The history of the generations which preceded the French Revolution almost as much as of that which followed it must be written in terms of warfare . |