Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 2 | Since the first extended reach well , export shipments which averaged some 60,000 barrels a day ( b/d ) , are peaking at 83,000 b/d . |
| 3 | In addition the powers of the National Enterprise Board , which operated various state-owned businesses , were to be restricted . |
| 4 | Those which lacked this essential source of strength were either impotent small ones on the fringes of the great political developments of the age , such as the Italian republics , or , in the case of some more important States , were notably less well governed and less effectively led than their neighbours and competitors . |
| 5 | Simon Roberts , Friends of the Earth 's energy campaigner , described the government approach as " a big carbon con " which lacked any new initiatives . |
| 6 | As Haynes points out , the planning process reflected this in that it ‘ usually took the form of a series of isolated , departmental exercises which lacked any common framework of reference apart from the central control of financial input ’ ( Haynes , 1980 , p. 82 ) . |
| 7 | A month later , on 15 July , the Cabinet had before it a further memorandum from the Home Secretary which ventilated some alternative strategies : |
| 8 | AEA has worked with a profit centre in a large organisation with an annual turnover of £20 million which experienced occasional major incidents and regular small claims for minor accidents and failures . |
| 9 | A 45-FOOT dinosaur which lived 200 million years ago may have had eight hearts , say scientists writing in the medical journal Lancet . |
| 10 | Explorers of distant countries found other plants which produced curious mental effects . |
| 11 | Norman also established a breeding stud of racehorses which produced many classic winners . |
| 12 | The brothers converted part of the building to make a chapel , and set up an industry in old railway huts which produced exquisite ecclesiastical embroideries , many of which can still be seen in local churches . |
| 13 | All this changed in 1969 and 1970 with the emergence of the environmental movement which made the environment a political or ‘ vote-catching ’ issue , and which produced massive public pressure for fast , dramatic action , the nature of which is usually restricted to crisis situations ( Gunningham , 1974 ; Jones , 1973 ) . |
| 14 | The relatively recent increase could be the result , for example , of a collision between two asteroids which produced several smaller asteroids , or the disruption of a few large comets . |
| 15 | The concentration of TPA which produced half maximal inhibition was 0.15 nmol/l , estimated by using the program FIT . |
| 16 | The initial examination of the requirement was based on the categories derived in the earlier analysis , which produced some tentative conclusions about the type of records that could be held on a computer , and the potential advantages that could be gained . |
| 17 | The complaint of maladministration was not upheld , the Commissioner finding that the complainant 's grievance essentially turned around the meaning of the phrase ‘ best practicable means ’ the complainant being of the opinion that any emission of obnoxious odours provided grounds for legal proceedings , whereas the Health and Safety Executive , while accepting there was an occasional emission which produced some slight smell , did not consider that this constituted an offence . |
| 18 | Experience seemed to justify this view , for the period saw many indecisive encounters of this kind ; while the naval battles which produced some decisive result — Cape Passaro ( 1718 ) ; Hawke 's victory over the French Admiral Du Bois de la Motte ( 1744 ) ; Lagos and Quiberon Bay ( 1759 ) ; Rodney 's ‘ midnight chase ’ of the Spanish Admiral Langara in 1780 — were nearly all marked by a preponderance of strength on one side . |
| 19 | After lots of hard work during the day , Terry invited everyone to a special ‘ Black & White ’ evening which produced some wonderful sights . |
| 20 | Qatar , which produced some 20 million tonnes of oil in 1984 , and exports steel , fertilizers and petrochemicals , plans to spend some $4–6 billion over the next seven years on a project to export liquefied gas from its vast North Field . |
| 21 | A discussion then followed about the strengths of a less centrally controlled and ad-hoc response , which was broadly the case in the UK , and which produced some interesting and innovative approaches . |
| 22 | The imagination which produced this imposing structure did not extend to the interior . |
| 23 | An understanding of the substances which produced these curious effects came with the advance of chemistry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 24 | However , it is still very difficult to search for the sequence of transformations which produced any given tree . |
| 25 | British Coal had 133 producing collieries in operation at the beginning of the financial year 1986-87 , which produced 88 million tonnes of coal . |
| 26 | We need to remind ourselves , and quite forcibly , that these typical complaints come from the period of history in which Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree conducted their pioneering studies of urban life which revealed such awful poverty among the common people . |
| 27 | Recently Aberdeen university carried out a survey which revealed that 15 per cent . |
| 28 | His book is the first to be based on close technical scrutiny of the parchment , which revealed several erased preparatory drawings that point to some controversy among the medieval planners . |
| 29 | They are the outcome of more than 20 conferences held throughout the UK and follow an investigation by Counsel and Care which revealed widespread demeaning restraint in homes . |
| 30 | We also looked at their transport , destination and time they returned home , which revealed some slight differences . |