Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 2 | In Germany , in July 1932 , the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag , which made them the majority party , although Adolph Hitler was not able to become the Chancellor until January 1933 . |
| 3 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 4 | Alexander 's method was brought about by his unique way of thinking which made him the genius that he was . |
| 5 | His loneliness as a child had been reinforced by his years of solitary endeavour in the north-west frontier in India and Kenya , which made him the world 's leading authority on the diseases of the camel . |
| 6 | Which made her the last person to know how to handle this evening 's adventure . |
| 7 | Which made me the family oddity . ’ |
| 8 | Of all the commercial cities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Genoa is the best documented , for its marvellous series of notarial registers give us almost a comprehensive view of the sophisticated world of contracts and partnerships , of commerce near and far , which made it the home of a commercial empire stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Middle East . |
| 9 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 10 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 11 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 12 | The most significant of these was Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio , which made it the responsibility of an employee to show that an employer used practices adversely affecting women and minorities without any " business necessity " . |
| 13 | Miss Mates , indeed , kissed her on the cheek , said , ‘ Oh , you poor thing , ’ which made Sally-Anne feel a little mean , even if it was the last copper-bottomed clincher — that was her Uncle Orrin this time , not Papa — which got her the job . |
| 14 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 15 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 16 | He is still smarting after Tuesday 's controversial umpire call , which cost him the race against Kanza , Koch 's other boat . |
| 17 | Thanks to proper medical care , the infection was cured , but he needed a convalescence of four weeks under medical guidance , a time which cost him the part of Timmy Cleary that he craved . |
| 18 | Although she was anxious to be able to travel on the underground and in aeroplanes , she felt that the problem which caused her the most inconvenience was her inability to go into any large shop or department store without experiencing extreme panic . |
| 19 | Ten minutes ahead on the clock , Short castled on the queenside and began a pawn advance which secured him the initiative . |
| 20 | She felt the sudden weight on her legs which told her the cat had leapt up again . |
| 21 | Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world . |
| 22 | And yet there was a part of her which longed to get to the bottom of this complex man , an instinct perhaps which told her the quest would be a worthwhile one . |
| 23 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 24 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 25 | A cold breeze was blowing in off the sea which blasted them the moment they stepped on to the pavement . |
| 26 | Rex asked , which spared me the bother . |
| 27 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 28 | Let me not forget to mention the bakery in Waipukurau , which served us the most magnificent cream ( real cream ! ) buns filled with delicious real fruit conserve — wow ! |
| 29 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 30 | The CNAA was a marvellous learning process which … drove me into intimate contact with a wide range of higher education courses , in dance primarily , which taught me the criteria for judging dance as a higher education subject … |