Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though a white cloak had been thrown over the entire countryside , a cloak which gleamed beneath an enormous ghostly-white moon , robbing the night of its darkness . |
| 2 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 3 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 4 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 5 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 6 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 7 | All three National governments , which operated under the premiership of J. Ramsay MacDonald ( 1931–5 ) , Stanley Baldwin ( 1935–37 ) and Neville Chamberlain ( 1937–40 ) , displayed increasing respect for the trade unions in the 1930s . |
| 8 | Despite grand plans for the ‘ informationisation of society ’ , the partnership of government and industry which operated under the government of Valery Giscard d'Estaing left the French information-technology industry in a mess — at least compared with American or Japanese firms . |
| 9 | Sitcoms like Love Thy Neighbour , Till Death Us Do Part and Mind Your Language were stuffed to bursting with gags which operated on the principle that differences of colour or culture were an endless source of easy laughs . |
| 10 | So , Fearnley was under continuous threat from the two or three agencies which operated on an international basis , and especially from the most powerful , Mike Martinez . |
| 11 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 12 | ( i ) Liability for negligence.In Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland [ 1987 ] 2 All ER 620 the Court of Appeal upheld a finding that a clause in a plant hire contract requiring the hirer of an excavator to indemnify the owner against liability for loss caused by the driver 's negligence , which operated as an exclusion , was unreasonable . |
| 13 | Val had said ) which operated from the British Museum , to which Ash 's wife , Ellen , had given many of the manuscripts of his poems , when he died . |
| 14 | The steam narrowboats which operated from the Midlands to London could carry only 12 tons but could tow an unpowered ‘ butty ’ boat behind . |
| 15 | If there was a redistributive aspect to funding of the national debt and its associated taxation , it was largely one which operated within the ranks of the better-off . |
| 16 | This scheme has replaced transitional relief which operated in the year 1990–91 . |
| 17 | An alternative , which operated in the UK from 1925 — 31 , is that the central bank is not prepared to convert banknotes into gold for domestic residents but is willing to convert such paper into gold for foreigners . |
| 18 | The Somali Patriotic Movement , which operated in the southern Ogaden , in November 1989 agreed to co-operate with the SNM . |
| 19 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 20 | Extensive stretches of mudflats also seemed likely to disappear at Strangford , Co Down , the province 's most important estuary — endangering 50,000 waders , 25,000 wildfowl and 90 per cent of the pale-bellied Brent geese which wintered in the British Isles . |
| 21 | The Dalmatians from Ragusa represented the most important of the outside influences which penetrated into the heart of the Balkans . |
| 22 | He then stabbed Mr Kelly in the backside with the knife which penetrated to a depth of four to six inches . |
| 23 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 24 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 25 | Partial debt remission would reward enterprises which agreed on a restructuring programme with their creditors . |
| 26 | [ For November SPD congress which agreed on the need to tighten the law see p. 39208 . ] |
| 27 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 28 | There were two stern clocks on the walls — neither of which agreed with the time according to Rock Hardy — and a set of coloured prints showing dreary desert scenes . |
| 29 | Fluorescence staining has proved of little value in meiotic analysis of the mouse , but in man quinacrine staining originally revealed that it was the non-fluorescent short arm of the Y chromosome which paired with the X at metaphase I of meiosis ( 8 ) . |
| 30 | A notably successful example of a glass shot ( see page 44 ) appears in the Powell/Pressburger version of Rumer Godden 's 1938 novel , Black Narcissus ( 1947 ) , which centred on a small group of nuns in the Indian Himalayas . |