Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | City of London Polytechnic and Oxford Polytechnic were two of the institutions which sought to combine an interdisciplinary approach with a modular structure . |
| 3 | It was a small room , full of photographs , many in silver frames , which helped to give an Edwardian flavour to the general appearance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This description of the extended professional takes some account of Stenhouse 's criticism of Hoyle 's earlier formulation which seemed to emphasise an uncritical acceptance of theory and consequently reduced teacher autonomy . |
| 7 | There will be no complaints from 26-year-old Flowers , even though it was his self-confidence which seemed to infect an England team short of inspiration in the past two weeks . |
| 8 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 9 | It was somehow better than making her own suppositions , which seemed to take an awful amount of energy and caused a lot of stress . |
| 10 | Eliot felt that at Munich there had been a betrayal which seemed to demand an act of almost personal contrition . |
| 11 | None the less , since antiquity there have been many efforts to describe features of the world , including the social , in quantitative terms , efforts which began to assume an even greater urgency and consequentiality with the rise of the modern nation state and its requirements for an accurate accounting of its resources . |
| 12 | The senior management team spent one and a half days in Cheddar , Somerset , on a variety of teamworking tasks , one of which included mapping an underground cavern . |
| 13 | In October 1986 the second Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik , ended in failure when the American refused to abandon his ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ , launched three years earlier , which aimed to create an anti-ballistic missile system . |
| 14 | Accordingly a series of steps were taken which aimed to establish an academic culture within which evaluation activities were widespread and respected ; evaluation skills and expertise were readily available ; and evaluation gradually became an expected element in the body of knowledge and skills possessed by professional higher education practitioners . |
| 15 | Congress on Feb. 4 approved a further extension of unemployment benefits which aimed to provide an additional 13 weeks of benefits to some 2,000,000 unemployed workers , many of whose benefits were about to expire . |
| 16 | H. E. Alexander describes the four basic aspects to this legislation as public disclosure of the monetary influences on elected officers , expenditure limits to meet the problem of rising costs , contribution restrictions to meet the problem of candidates obligating themselves to certain interest groups , and public funding which aimed to provide an alternative source of funding to replace the prohibited and limited contributions under FECA . |
| 17 | When the United Kingdom did eventually join , therefore , she joined a well-established existing organisation , the original six members of which had developed an understanding and evolved an attitude towards the Community which the United Kingdom has not come easily to share . |
| 18 | Adherents of the current PAL broadcasting standard , including the UK Sky Broadcasting Corporation , had clashed with the electronics manufacturers Philips and Thomson which had developed an improved system known as HD-MAC . |
| 19 | Talks sponsored by Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon brought together in Djibouti on June 5-15 the leaders of four Somali groups — the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which had formed an interim administration in Mogadishu in January [ see pp. 37946-47 ] ; the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) ; the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) : and the Somali Democratic Movement ( SDM ) . |
| 20 | The Faro a Colón ( Columbus Lighthouse ) , a favourite project of President Joaquín Balaguer which had cost an estimated US$25,000,000 , was intended to be inaugurated during a visit by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 9-14 . |
| 21 | The pro-Cuban National Liberation Army ( Ejército de Liberación Nacional — ELN ) , whose persistent attacks on oil pipelines ( the latest on May 13 , 1990 , closing the main Caño-Limón line ) had caused the loss of an officially estimated $40,000,000 in revenue since January 1990 ( and an estimated $500,000,000 since 1985 ) , maintained its rejection of peace contacts with the government which had declared an " all-out war " on the group on Jan. 3 . |
| 22 | There were also several reports of violence in the Cabinda enclave , where FAPLA soldiers were deployed to counter increased guerrilla activity from the separatist Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave ( FLEC ) which had declared an election boycott at the end of August . |
| 23 | Such an ‘ abuse ’ was exemplified by the courts in Wheeler v. Leicester City Council where the City Council ( which had adopted an anti-apartheid policy ) banned the Leicester Rugby club from using a Council recreation ground because three members of the club had joined an English touring side to South Africa . |
| 24 | The conference , which had adopted an electoral timetable on Aug. 24 involving a referendum on the new constitution on Feb. 9 , 1992 , followed by local , legislative and , finally , presidential elections , elected a Prime Minister on Aug. 27 to head a transitional government . |
| 25 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 26 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 27 | The revival of the Hindu-Moslem dispute , which had played an important part in the November election campaign [ see pp. 36977 ; 37030 ] , had threatened to provoke further communal tensions in the period leading up to the Bihar state assembly elections at the end of February [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 28 | Other Palestinian groups , including Syrian-based " rejectionist " groups and Hamas ( " Zeal " — a non-PLO fundamentalist Islamic group which had played an increasingly large role in the intifada during 1990 ) , were obliged to follow the Arafat line . |
| 29 | The bridge across the Öresund was opposed by Finland , which had lodged an objection at the International Court of Justice on the grounds that its 65-metre clearance would be insufficient to allow the passage of oil drilling rigs manufactured by shipyards in the region . |
| 30 | As she learnt to be a friend to herself , she attracted close friends for the first time — and the disasters which had become an accepted part of her life became more and more rare . |