Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had earlier fought with the naval armoured car brigade which landed at Walfish ( now Walvis ) Bay in South-West Africa and helped Gen Botha to take the German colony . |
| 2 | In 1885 a landing party from the ship 's crew of 113 formed part of a naval brigade which landed at Suakin ( a small port in the Red Sea near Port Sudan ) . |
| 3 | There was strong interest too in some jewellery items especially an 18-carat cluster ring which sold at £330 . |
| 4 | First , as will be demonstrated below , he tends to underplay the severity of the violence which occurred at places like Grunwick and Hadfields during a period supposedly devoid of such conflict . |
| 5 | Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue . |
| 6 | Another study which looked at men whose wives had died of cancer of the cervix has shown that there is a much higher incidence of cervical cancer among their second wives than would be expected by chance . |
| 7 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 8 | Only his wife Mary , always calm , and still , at the age of forty , a great beauty , could guess at the real distress which tore at him . |
| 9 | Bob Swatman , 73 , branch chairman , of Low Lane , Middlesbrough , had to wait 17 hours on the beach before he was eventually evacuated with 65 others by a fishing boat which landed at Margate Pier . |
| 10 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 11 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |
| 12 | The sum insured applicable to a claim is the figure which applied at the date of the loss , i.e. the sum insured at inception/renewal date plus the appropriate index-linking to the date of loss . |
| 13 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold , clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knickers . |
| 14 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knicker legs … |
| 15 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 16 | The first floor of the Post Office had some rooms over the lane which contained at the end nearest the street , some of Salisbury 's oldest buildings . |
| 17 | It was the final stage in a dramatic story which started at Birth for Adisa . |
| 18 | It was the final stage in a dramatic story which started at Birth for Adisa . |
| 19 | Balliol 's letters patent acknowledging the English king 's overlordship of Scotland were discussed at an ill-attended parliament which met at York in December 1332 . |
| 20 | First FAA unit to operate Firefly F.Is was 1770 Squadron which formed at RNAS Yeovilton on October 1 , 1943 . |
| 21 | Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically . |
| 22 | I explained in my statement in the annual report about the management reorganisation which occurred at the end of nineteen eighty nine . |
| 23 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 24 | Table 3.1 shows the intake of graduates in 25 subjects or subject combinations into types of work which absorbed at least 1 per cent of the total for that subject in one year ( permanent UK employment , 1986/87 ) . |
| 25 | The major work which started at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire last winter to improve the conservation environment has continued this year with the installation of the second phase of a new heating system . |
| 26 | Bosnian leaders , however , accused the FRY of attempting to deny responsibility for Serb attacks , such as the June 23 shelling which killed at least 14 people in Sarajevo city centre , which was crowded with people after an apparent lull in the fighting . |
| 27 | Police have appealed to witnesses to the crash which happened at about 2.45pm on Saturday . |
| 28 | It was this issue which lay at the heart of Dicey 's concern about droit administratif . |
| 29 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 30 | He thought about the decadence which existed at the centre of the Empire . |