Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , it has been pointed out that there was no net increase in total real wealth between 1913 and 1951 , and in this context the world wars are cast as the harpies which devoured the accumulated efforts of previous generations . |
| 2 | The existing management was organised around establishments , each with its own board of management , its own financial system , its own marketing and commercial organisation , its safety infrastructure , administration and so on , but with business interests which overlapped the other establishments . |
| 3 | During Kimon 's absence , the democratization of the Athenian constitution was taken a stage further : the Areopagus , the upper council in the Athenian state , composed of ex-archons , was deprived of its political and legal functions , other than those which concerned a few cases of homicide . |
| 4 | This is the action in the famous Argyll v. Argyll , which concerned the possible disclosure of intimate marital secrets . |
| 5 | But this was an empirical observation which concerned the economic circumstances of a particular country at a particular period of time : it had nothing whatever to do with his general theory of employment . |
| 6 | This does not mean that conventional men of intelligence and ability thought that either science or society had solved all problems , though in some respects , such as those which concerned the basic pattern of an economy and the basic pattern of the physical universe , some very able ones felt that all substantial ones had been solved . |
| 7 | Since the working class is the largest group and the group which concerned the educational reformers of 1944 , it is the natural choice of a base for the class variable . |
| 8 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 9 | There was a lipless mouth , their were deep eye sockets from which gleamed the small evil , old eyes of the necromancer . |
| 10 | Tolkien did not believe in ‘ old religions ’ or ‘ witch-cults ’ ; C. S. Lewis wrote a paper called ‘ The Anthropological Approach ’ which damned the learned variety of that error beyond redemption . |
| 11 | What did surprise him a little , and which argued a political maturity that even sensitive Western observers were sometimes inclined to overlook , was that , in three days of systematic canvassing of Libyan opinion , he encountered little or no personal hostility . |
| 12 | While the interests which ruled the foreign policies of European states might differ , the machinery which put them into effect did not . |
| 13 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 14 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 15 | The chief problem lay in political requirements which engendered a saturated home market and also that the society was not empowered to manufacture the more profitable battery . |
| 16 | For example , it is arguable that the qualitative change which engendered an environmental movement in the early 1960s involved not so much the presence of environmental destruction as the fact that the new forms of pollution and disruption became much more difficult , if not impossible , to avoid . |
| 17 | There , the defendant company , which operated a large number of supermarkets , had instituted in their stores an effective system to prevent the commission of an offence . |
| 18 | He went into his narrow lobby , picked up the phone , pressed the button which operated the visual screen . |
| 19 | Moreover , the reference to the technical abilities needed to build a bridge was directed as a warning against grandiose schemes which lacked a firm technical basis ; and for the need for patient , long-term methods of work , rather than substituting the ‘ shock-troop ’ methods of ‘ war communism ’ for more prosaic means . |
| 20 | Obviously she had realised the futility of luring Silas into a chalet which lacked a double bed . |
| 21 | This policy posed a general problem for the National WEA , which lacked a clear view on its partnership with other providers , and was an especially acute one for the District where important concessions had been made in earlier years to the Cambridge Board . |
| 22 | In its origin feudalism provided for the recruitment of vitally needed cavalry troops in a society which lacked the liquid money to pay troops in cash . |
| 23 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 24 | Many early r'n'r bass players continued to use the upright bass , which lent a distinct voice to the records of the time . |
| 25 | The work has a masterly sense of proportion , an elegiac richness of palate and a spiritual far-sightedness which lent a radiant depth to the work 's mythological tapestry . |
| 26 | The piece hinted at ‘ a difficult war ’ and made much of personal loss , which lent a certain ‘ haunt-ing melancholy ’ to his work . |
| 27 | Erm , but , you know , which lent a certain point to the whole argument . |
| 28 | In the early 1980s in Britain , the Economic and Social Research Council funded a major research project which lent an official academic seal to the work of individuals concerned . |
| 29 | For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee . |
| 30 | It seems necessary for it to have what has been called a ‘ cognitive map ’ in its head ; that is , it would have to have something which conveyed the same information as is conveyed by Figure 10 . |