Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 2 | Not only was it the structure of attitudes which concerned these scholars , but also they were interested in the dynamics of attitudinal change . |
| 3 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 4 | The press made much of his brother Geoffrey 's Chairmanship of the Tramway Museum Society , which operated vintage trams at its Museum in Derbyshire . |
| 5 | The ideological dimension favoured in the explanation of Continental fertility differences seems less applicable to Britain , which lacked major foci of religious or social dissent . |
| 6 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 7 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 8 | A country which experienced volatile movements in capital flows , operating under a floating regime , would find that balance of payments equilibrium might be attained only by tolerating very wide swings in the foreign exchange value of its currency . |
| 9 | This process has diminished the role which experienced local skills and capital could have played , and even the allocation of opportunities to the indigenous entrepreneur has seldom been fairhanded , and free of localism and corruption . |
| 10 | Other words which designated sexual traits , such as nymphomania , narcissism , autoeroticism , kleptomania , urolagnia and many others , began to seep into scientific discourse by the end of the century and the beginning of the twentieth century , indicating a new concern with detail-ing sexual variations , and with using sex as a distinguishing mark between individuals . |
| 11 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |
| 12 | Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s . |
| 13 | Uproar in the press forced a Committee of Inquiry which recommended stronger ships . |
| 14 | The reports are debated in the House and we follow the practice of the Select Committee on Procedure which recommended three days for such reports . |
| 15 | Only later was a full investigation made of the events in Dallas by a commission under Chief Justice Earl Warren , which produced 26 volumes of evidence . |
| 16 | The 1950s resembled the 1920s experience with a roughly equal balance of public and private construction , almost all of which was suburbanization by addition and which produced 3732 dwellings . |
| 17 | Last year there were 80 breeding pairs which produced 100 fledglings — they are now being studied by Durham University . |
| 18 | Pride of place must go to the sea-lion group which produced two pups . |
| 19 | Part of its roots are to be found in the building trade co-operatives of the mid-19th century , which produced such developments as the Colonies in Stockbridge with entrances for different floors on opposite sides of the block . |
| 20 | Cathedrals are also , to a small extent , helping to revive the tradition of patronage which produced such riches in the past . |
| 21 | This is the first full study of the greatest period in the city 's history , which produced such painters as Melozzo and Palmezzano . |
| 22 | Whatever the particular context of such changes , these studies demonstrate that a set of transformations in material culture which may be found to permeate almost every trivial domain , from chimneys to rubbish disposal , can be understood as a largely unconscious and unintentional response by a variety of social groups , which produced new forms of demand and new means of incorporating the emergence of mass produced items . |
| 23 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 24 | They were most marked on the heavy clays that overlie most of the Midlands , which produced good pastures . |
| 25 | The pavement was made in the famous Corinium workshop at Cirencester , which produced many mosaics for other Roman villas in the Cotswolds . |
| 26 | Fierce competition between the major tour operators in Britain , Germany and Scandinavia produced advantageous deals with airlines and hotels ; there were better and more economical aircraft , and less financial restrictions , all of which produced cheaper holidays . |
| 27 | A local case which produced front-page headlines — ‘ Vicious schemer ’ is jailed for life SHAM TEARS OF AN EVIL WIFE — described how a former Coventry man who had moved to become a licensee in a Yorkshire pub had been killed by his 32-year-old wife and her barman lover . |
| 28 | A survey conducted by Chittagong University 's Economics Department showed that the Satkhira region , which produced 40,000 tonnes of rice in 1976 , yielded only 360 tonnes ten years later . |
| 29 | If the room is quiet ( as shown by the sound-level meter ) , then a voice which produced 80 decibels — that is , about the level of heavy street traffic — would obviously be far too loud . |
| 30 | Water supply , which produced great reservoirs , gas supply and electricity , paved roads , urban transport , waste disposal and considerable numbers of public buildings and parks , all had a dramatic effect on the landscape and so their omission is serious . |