Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 2 | The £110m takeover — which made ADT the second largest burglar alarm company in Great Britain — resulted in a £146m goodwill write off in ADT 's 1991 accounts . |
| 3 | ‘ It is difficult ’ , the study concludes , ‘ to see how such an ill-conceived , ill-equipped , under-funded project could ever have been successful , ’ Of KME , it recalls that , in the face of advice that a proposal which made job-preservation the paramount consideration was likely to fail , Mr Benn decided to advance £3.9 million by way of assistance provided under Section 7 of the 1972 Industry Act . |
| 4 | It was a tribute to that engineering genius which made Britain the foremost industrial power in the world and which made engineers chiefs in the pantheon of heroes of the new industrial age , celebrated in works like Samuel Smiles 's Lives of the Engineers . |
| 5 | But it 's not ease of use which made WordPerfect the best seller . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the Sports Council , which helped fund the study , said they were alarmed by the findings . |
| 7 | Appeals over the nurses ' regrading are coming through with no extra cash to pay for them , and , ironically , in the Thames regions the slump in house prices has slowed staff turnover ; vacancy levels , which helped balance the books at the cost of quality and volume of service , are lower . |
| 8 | But the steepest rise in the number of Siberian exiles was caused by the notorious legislation of 1760 which granted serf-owners the right to hand over disobedient , idle or refractory peasants to the state authorities for exile to Siberia , in return for a military recruit quittance . |
| 9 | Much of this material may have been copied from older sets of annals , and some conceivably derived from the brief comments sometimes made against individual years in the Tables which told churchmen the date of Easter . |
| 10 | The single remaining piece of evidence which linked Kirov the tailor to Kirov the dissident activist was in his pocket , sealed within a plain brown , un-addressed envelope . |
| 11 | Second , they 're no longer played by ugly gits like Charles Bronson , but by pretty ethnics such as Lou Diamond Phillips who can plausibly claim to have Cherokee blood somewhere in their veins ( it was this which landed Phillips the lead in The Dark Wind , the recent Robert Redfordbacked adaptation of one of Tony Hillerman 's Navajo detective novels ) . |
| 12 | Christie 's adopted a different tack , dropped its mid-season sale of Impressionist art and used contemporary art as the leader for a sale of modern British paintings and sculpture which took place the following morning ( see p. 24 ) . |
| 13 | Here , for instance , there is no doubt that Niki was of substantial help in closing the deal which brought McLaren the hugely successful TAG/Porsche engine , developed by Porsche but financed and sponsored by Mansour Ojjeh , the son of the head of Techniques d'Avant Garde , a French high-tech company with a substantial role in the development of weaponry . |
| 14 | A COMPANY which offered motorists the chance of a new car for just 27p a day has been wound up . |
| 15 | A COMPANY which offered motorists the chance of a new car for just 27p a day has been wound up . |
| 16 | The centre boasts fewer sporting facilities than the Lompoc prison camp in California , which offered inmates the chance to improve their tennis and basketmaking skills . |
| 17 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 18 | What Scunthorpe managed last season Scarborough achieved despite the disappointment of seeing one of their most sustained periods of pressure relieved with the Steve Clarke goal which gave Chelsea the lead . |
| 19 | The extension of teacher training to three years in the 1960s , which gave students the opportunity of achieving a Bachelors degree in Education ( B Ed ) in the fourth did little to alter the shape of teacher training . |
| 20 | We recognise the face and words of Robert J. Oppenheimer , leader of the Manhattan Project which gave America the atomic bomb : " I remembered a few lines from the Hindu Scripture , the Bhagavad-Gita : " Now I am become death , the destroyer of worlds . " " |
| 21 | Past customers swayed by the dialogue include Fujitsu which installed nine lifts worth £300,000 at its Aycliffe factory , and developer Murray International which gave Pickerings the £150,000 contract to supply lifts for Dunedin House , the Teesdale site office block . |
| 22 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 23 | There was one present which gave Diana the most agonizing decision of her young life . |
| 24 | Graham 's production , performed on a mock-up apron stage , included wistful music written by Johnny Dankworth and slapstick comedy , which gave Crawford the chance to get noticed for what he did best . |
| 25 | It was a nice bit of play by Deane which gave Speed the opportunity to translate our complete domination into material advantage . |
| 26 | The expedition was a military failure , but it led to the treaty of Brétigny of May 1360 , which gave Edward the lands ceded to him in 1358 with a ransom reduced to 3,000,000 gold crowns . |
| 27 | It was the designer 's work on the planes which won Britain the Schneider trophy — the World Cup of the aviation world , which led to his designs for the Spitfire . |
| 28 | Lawson 's record with junior development in the north east was , indeed , formidable , culminating last summer in recognition from the LTA , which voted Sunderland the top ITI Centre with the best junior development programme . |
| 29 | One significant clause to be deleted was that which denied farmers the right to challenge compensation payments . |
| 30 | There had been in the brilliantly brave ace at 5–6 in the first set tie break , which denied Sampras the set point he had earned with an ace of his own . |