Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a profit of $2.1m in the Homeowners account which compared with a loss in the same period last year of $8.3m . |
| 2 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 3 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 4 | Rostov was surprised that the question had not been asked earlier , and guessed that a code of manners existed which governed the kind of questions which could be asked . |
| 5 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 6 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 7 | However , the ‘ progressive ’ employers who developed this form of occupational welfare , mainly after World War I ( Jones , 1983 ) , typically operated a ‘ marriage bar ’ and the ‘ women 's pension scheme ’ doubled as a savings scheme which produced marriage gratuities . |
| 8 | Two fuel injectors blew which made the engine crackle very loudly . |
| 9 | She marked the paths of birds and insects , pointed to the homes of lizards and carried a fishing line which she would occasionally cast , watching for the rough bobbin to lurch , winding in a small , flat saafi fish which danced on the hook until she released it and tossed it back . |
| 10 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 11 | The ability of Philip Augustus and his immediate successors to translate what had for long been no more than theoretical claims into judicial , and sometimes geographical , reality changed the balance of forces . |
| 12 | The facts must show , however , that whether A or B committed the final act , the other must have assisted , encouraged or , at least , failed to take necessary steps to prevent what happened . |
| 13 | The organisational side of the investigation described here will in the great majority of cases reveal what went wrong , either physically and mechanically or from a procedural or handling point of view . |
| 14 | ‘ I am responsible , ’ she thought as they sat in the train and Victoria pulled up seat cushions to see what lay beneath them and Jonathon studied a diagram of the rigging on a schooner . |
| 15 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 16 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 17 | On Feb. 14 Chiluba and UK Prime Minister John Major signed agreements rescheduling Zambia 's 1992 debt obligations to the UK and releasing £10,000,000 balance-of-payments support which had been suspended pending the implementation of economic reforms . |
| 18 | But now , for the first time in English history , a set of circumstances existed which tested , whether this doctrine is always workable . |
| 19 | Often the policies of individual railway companies determined what happened As Professor Simmonds has pointed out the Great Western was mainly concerned with long distance traffic in its early years . |
| 20 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 21 | Their aim was to ensure that contracts were given and policies enacted which favoured their interests in making profits . |
| 22 | I have visited Southampton within the past few days to see what had become of one of the subsidiaries there Hampshire Bus . |
| 23 | Army bomb experts were called to ICI Wilton on Teesside when workers unearthed what appeared to be an unexploded wartime shell . |
| 24 | He was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in London , suede shoes , a striped tie and a beige waistcoat . |
| 25 | Progress on the destruction of chemical weapons at Muthanna , 130 kms north-west of Baghdad , was confirmed on Sept. 29 by Bernhard Brunner , leader of a second chemical weapons team which arrived on Sept. 21 . |
| 26 | Melrose was captain of the famous 1977–78 Australian Schoolboys team which travelled the United Kingdom , Ireland , Europe and Japan undefeated . |
| 27 | In one artist 's statement , he remarked : Whilst the Lefevre exhibition established him as urban romantic with a particular feeling for Thames-side subjects , a number of commissions followed which allowed him to develop this vein . |
| 28 | He used Planck 's ideas to interpret what had proved classically inexplicable in the photoelectric effect . |
| 29 | Home Office officials knew what needed to be done , but were inhibited by the political climate from doing it . |
| 30 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |