Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , moving on to item four which agreed to consider a term following plan applications . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Any party which failed to win a seat in a general election would be automatically dissolved . |
| 4 | 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 ) ) . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | Mr Palumbo also suggested that grant money might be taken away from companies which failed to achieve a sufficiently high standard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Malerba was on last month 's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In research for the programme , which sought to build a dossier of evidence on Docherty 's life , the Manchester United halfback Pat Crerand painted a picture of extraordinary conflict within the club . |
| 11 | City of London Polytechnic and Oxford Polytechnic were two of the institutions which sought to combine an interdisciplinary approach with a modular structure . |
| 12 | The ECM being essentially free and unregulated is governed by the principles of competition while most domestic money markets have been riddled with monopolistic elements and restrictive practices , e.g. credit ( loan ) allocation rules , which sought to secure a privileged position for certain vested parties such as government borrowers and domestic banks . |
| 13 | The teaching methods in the full-time courses were centred upon projects which sought to provide a simulated work situation , to integrate what might otherwise appear to be disparate subject areas and to engender in the student independence and originality of thought . |
| 14 | In 1988 the committee came up with reasonably simple minimum standards ( adopted or exceeded by banks in most developed countries by the end of last year ) which sought to match a bank 's capital to the credit risks it runs . |
| 15 | Now two High Court judges have refused to be cowed by the high-handed attitude and pressures of a Government which sought to impose a devastating pit-closure programme without following the proper legal procedures . |
| 16 | After an appeal from the Constitutional Court that President and legislature settle their differences , Yeltsin and Khasbulatov reached a compromise which involved holding a constitutional referendum on April 11 , 1993 , and freezing all constitutional amendments adopted at the Congress . |
| 17 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 18 | The original method of producing acrylic sheet , which involved casting a thickened and part-polymerized methyl methacrylate syrup in plate glass cells and completing polymerization by heating in an oven , was devised in the 1930s . |
| 19 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 20 | The plan , which involved charging a flat-rate tax per kilo , represented an attempt to reduce the amount of waste dumped in landfill sites . |
| 21 | An alternative view might be that as the court considered whether the GMC had exercised its power in accordance with the Act it was in fact embarking on an exercise which involved making a finding of reasonableness ( or the lack of it ) in a fashion analogous to an application of the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 22 | At first we travelled under the escarpment , which involved crossing a succession of spurs . |
| 23 | It was a small room , full of photographs , many in silver frames , which helped to give an Edwardian flavour to the general appearance . |
| 24 | The success was the Metro-Cammell Class 156 , which helped create a new-style hourly Anglia-North West service and transform domestic Scottish and Welsh services . |
| 25 | A part of the ideology of ‘ muddling through ’ was an acceptance of pragmatism in social policy , even a glorying in it , which helped to sustain a distrust of too much expertise , particularly in a scientific field . |
| 26 | It was work completed in Alaska which helped provide a clue to the nature of the problem at BA-1 , explains head of production technology Lindsay Brown . |
| 27 | Two CWMBRAN staff took part in a 24 hour sponsored famine which helped raise a total of £324 . |
| 28 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 29 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 30 | By the second half of the century , the teaching laboratory had become a feature of any university , especially in Germany , which tried to attract an eminent person like Du Bois-Reymond or Carl Ludwig by promising him an ‘ institute ’ with research and teaching facilities . |