Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the application of good marine logic — tasting the water and finding it salty , then making sure the ebb — and flood-tides were of equal strength ( both tests which argued against this body of water being a river ) they realized that they had , indeed , discovered the way through . |
| 2 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 3 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) details the strategy developed for London , and outlines the social , economic and political reasons which led to this particular form of local policy being adopted for London . |
| 4 | While admitting that it was originally the understatement of German earnings which led to this move by the German analysts , in this we nevertheless have a model on which to work . |
| 5 | Significantly , it was the consul with a Greek surname , Q. Publilius Philo , who was entrusted with the drive into Campania which led to this pact in 326 . |
| 6 | There was a peak of deaths , which you can see quite clearly , which occurred during this period . |
| 7 | But in the light of the collapse of the Berlin Wall , which occurred after this book was completed and sent to my publishers , we have changed its title to Britain 's Defence Dilemma : An |
| 8 | The other factor which contributed to this effect was his decision to become a broadcaster . |
| 9 | I would like to thank staff at all levels for their tremendous efforts which contributed to this success . |
| 10 | They need regular injections of Factor 8 , some of which came into this country infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 11 | The lorry which came from this warehouse in Bletchley was found in North London later this morning still carrying its load of forty thousand pounds worth of clothes although the doors are damaged . |
| 12 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |
| 13 | The claim to descent from Ida , nevertheless , suggests that it was a Bernician family which intervened at this point . |
| 14 | Poxed , disfigured scavengers scuttled across hillocks of debris which rained into this underworld from a low steel sky by way of chutes and grilles . |
| 15 | The recommendations which flowed from this committee , published in 1919 , owed much to one member , Raymond Unwin , and it is from this source that earlier years of experiment in site planning ( focusing particularly on density and layout ) , house design and standards of accommodation finally came to fruition as national policy . |
| 16 | So a drug which acted during this phase , a ‘ true causal prophylactic ’ , was exactly what was wanted , but how was it to be found ? |
| 17 | As usual the author traces the history of the stations from their earliest days , 1891 in the case of Pwllheli , and has located some early photographs including one of the unusual ‘ tubular ’ lifeboat which served at this station on the Lleyn Peninsula for a short time after it was first opened . |
| 18 | Police were today trying to find out what happened during an seven hour ordeal which began on this country road in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | He made fun of the pseudo-learned , bureaucratic speech of an inspector which began like this : |
| 20 | Meanwhile , we may go back to the situation in 1072 , and begin with some words of Lanfranc which provide the main evidence for the documents which existed at this date . |
| 21 | The first person to teach it officially was probably Quatrefages in 1855 , in the professorship which existed in this subject at the Musée National in Paris . |
| 22 | The climate which developed in this period in Britain was one in which the prejudices of the judiciary were reinforced by a media campaign supportive of the Tory Party 's ideas on moral decay and over-dependence upon the state . |
| 23 | The 1970's can not be concluded without a reference to some of the societies who have enjoyed a special relationship with Henley and which started in this decade . |
| 24 | There has , however , been some debate in modern times about the motivation which lay behind this huge increase in Rome 's power : was it the constant aggression of neighbouring states which prompted Rome to take protective measures , and thereby incidentally achieve this new position , or was Rome an imperialist power whose expansion was internally motivated ( for example , by land hunger or aristocratic avarice for glory ) ? |
| 25 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 26 | Blaxter ( 1990 , p. 30 ) gives some examples of the kinds of responses provided by respondents which fell into this psychological category . |
| 27 | In the United States , there was a recognition that interdisciplinary proposals could ‘ fall between the cracks ’ ( Porter and Rossini ) , and the National Science Foundation set up separate panels to review proposals which fell into this category . |
| 28 | It is worth noting that of the course proposals which fell at this hurdle most were of a very high standard . |
| 29 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
| 30 | THE WESTONS SETTLED IN RYE , WHICH LOOKED LIKE THIS IN THEIR DAY . |