Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 2 | Right , moving on to item four which agreed to consider a term following plan applications . |
| 3 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 4 | There were two appeals against the verdict , which failed to reverse the decision and in the early winter of 1961 a court receiver auctioned the assets of Highlander . |
| 5 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 6 | Football : Advertisement for small beer : Joe Lovejoy reports on a game which failed to quench the purists ' thirsts |
| 7 | Sarajevo Child Lifeline is connected with Brit-Pol , an organisation which made the news last year , when they organised a trip for a group of volunteers from Berkley in Gloucestershire , which failed to collect a coach load of orphans they had planned to bring back from Bosnia . |
| 8 | The Barcelona rising , which failed to enlist the vital support of the CNT , was quickly suppressed , but that in Asturias lasted a fortnight until finally crushed , with considerable blood-shed , by Spanish and Moorish troops commanded by General Francisco Franco . |
| 9 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 10 | THE DEATH OF THE Lotus Elan was the result of poor sales which failed to recoup the massive investment made in the car , according to former GM Europe boss Bob Eaton . |
| 11 | Any party which failed to win a seat in a general election would be automatically dissolved . |
| 12 | The elections were contested by 15 parties , four of which failed to win a single seat ( Kaset Seri , Ruam Palang Mai , United Democratic Party and Thong Tin Kao Na ( Rural Progressive ) ) . |
| 13 | However other studies with a bent kinetoplast DNA fragment revealed some sites which were efficiently cleaved , yet which failed to produce a DNase I footprint [ 31 ] . |
| 14 | Mr Palumbo also suggested that grant money might be taken away from companies which failed to achieve a sufficiently high standard . |
| 15 | By deepening the partisan rift , the Thomas affair also cast its shadow over the Senate 's attempt to override the President , which failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority by two votes on Oct. 16 . |
| 16 | Our results may explain the puzzling results from at least two previous trials , which failed to find an impact on morbidity even in the presence of a large effect on mortality . |
| 17 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 18 | In the Palaeozoic rocks there were other stalked filter-feeding echinoderms , which failed to survive the crisis at the end of the Permian , weathered by the crinoids . |
| 19 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 20 | Malerba was on last month 's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity . |
| 21 | Lance Owen of Kingston took care of the service ( £174.25 ) and secured the exhaust , but its only attempt to cure the creak was to adjust the power steering belt , which failed to solve the problem . |
| 22 | The contract is a kick in the teeth for British workers at Westinghouse Signal , which expected to clinch the £100 million deal . |
| 23 | Spokeswoman Captain Marcella Adams said the base , which planned to hold the event on May 29 and 30 , would normally have heard by now . |
| 24 | The main buyers were those plants which planned to delay the introduction of desulphurizing " scrubber " equipment . |
| 25 | The problem facing the Indian Board , which met to discuss the crisis earlier this week , is who to name as a replacement . |
| 26 | there was something about these middle class daughter 's relationships with their ( rather less ) disabled mothers which made sharing a household less tolerable to them than for working class daughters . |
| 27 | It was this element of unreality which made tunnelling the most popular scheme for escape . |
| 28 | Belpan 's tax base was less than that of a medium-sized European market town , which made running the country a financial nightmare . |
| 29 | There were active liberal or socialist-influenced tenants ' and farmers ' movements in the interwar period which sought to improve the farmers ' lot . |
| 30 | A good deal of discussion focussed , in the early meetings , on whether and how to reduce the ‘ all-pervading ’ influence of the subject boards , and at its second meeting discussed an officers ' draft paper which sought to undermine the boards and considered the pros and cons of the CNAA relating primarily to institutions as a whole . |