Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GIST interventions described above relate to three of these : VISTA women , albeit briefly and temporarily , redressed the numerical balance by offering female role models of practising scientists ; VISTA and the curriculum development which followed involved a limited ‘ repackaging ’ of science to remove its exclusively masculine appeal , and the single-sex classes and classroom observation showed how science comes to be defined as ‘ masculine ’ in the mixed school . |
| 2 | There was virtually no support in Sussex for the French Revolution when it broke out in 1789 , and the wars which followed produced a widespread patriotic fervour which was matched by an equal growth in exploitation and popular desperation as the twenty years of conflict had deeper affects on local economic life . |
| 3 | Highlander was thus free to devote time to other issues which had assumed a growing need . |
| 4 | He referred , of course to British Rail which had suffered a drop in investment of £180 million . |
| 5 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 6 | So far from resolving the issues in dispute , indeed , the public acknowledgement that the protocols had existed began to call in question the legal status of the incorporation of these republics into the USSR , which had followed a Soviet military occupation and a clearly coerced vote by their respective Supreme Soviets . |
| 7 | Britain 's role in the world , which had generated a series of transient late-imperial crises between 1956 to 1982 , remained decidedly obscure , as Dean Acheson , Nicholas Henderson , and others had long forecast . |
| 8 | Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal . |
| 9 | Perhaps Reaumur 's most significant contribution to the biological sciences , however , was his observation of the regenerative power of certain crustaceans which had lost a limb . |
| 10 | The American administration also began to impose pressure on Syria — a state which had concluded a friendship and cooperation treaty with the USSR . |
| 11 | When the United Kingdom did eventually join , therefore , she joined a well-established existing organisation , the original six members of which had developed an understanding and evolved an attitude towards the Community which the United Kingdom has not come easily to share . |
| 12 | Adherents of the current PAL broadcasting standard , including the UK Sky Broadcasting Corporation , had clashed with the electronics manufacturers Philips and Thomson which had developed an improved system known as HD-MAC . |
| 13 | And the European Community — even the Treaty of Rome which had created a European Economic Community without British participation in 1957 — could be dismissed by Tories and Socialists alike , in its early years , as a dream and an illusion . |
| 14 | It was the most prominent of a number of paramilitary groups which had emerged in Georgia and which had created a climate of growing instability characterized by frequent gun battles on the streets of Tbilisi and other towns [ for Mkhedrioni involvement in September 1990 pre-election violence see p. 37723 ] . |
| 15 | One of the leaders of the Beijing Spring movement in 1978-79 which had created a " Democracy Wall " in the capital , Wei had been arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison [ see pp. 30495-96 ] . |
| 16 | He said that " the political temperature had been pushed unacceptably high " by the ANC campaign which had created a climate making " incidents such as these easier to happen " . |
| 17 | But then on my travels I met a vampire which had escaped a great war with the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 18 | In return the National Sports Congress , which had organized a campaign against the tour , agreed to call off demonstrations at the remaining four games . |
| 19 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the regime of President Milton Obote , and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 20 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the Obote regime and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 21 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 22 | It was a case , he said , which had aroused a lot of public concern , and it was clear that Mr Smith could not cope in looking after his stock . |
| 23 | I crept out from under the chair and smelt the dark liquid which had formed a pool on the hearth and soaked into the rug . |
| 24 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and Greens , which had formed a coalition government in Hesse for 14 months up to February 1987 , benefited from pacifist support immediately after the outbreak of the Gulf war . |
| 25 | The Labour Party was particularly critical of government policy in this area when it emerged after April 1 that Guys , the major London teaching hospital which had formed a trust with Lewisham , had made 600 redundancies and closed as many as 25 departments in a series of cost-cutting measures . |
| 26 | Talks sponsored by Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon brought together in Djibouti on June 5-15 the leaders of four Somali groups — the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which had formed an interim administration in Mogadishu in January [ see pp. 37946-47 ] ; the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) ; the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) : and the Somali Democratic Movement ( SDM ) . |
| 27 | It was Britain more than any other country which had placed a stamp on all European discussions about integration since the war . |
| 28 | Preston 's marriage had been ended , as the official record , Polly and his conscience would have it , by his adultery with Carla , rising star of the modern spoiled-brat school of journalism and presenter of Shrews at Ten , a women 's magazine series which Preston had produced and which had achieved a certain dubious fame before ending in tears , tantrums and Preston 's demotion to the God slot . |
| 29 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 30 | It was feared that the proposed budget for general programmes , set at $345,500,000 for 1991 , was very likely to prove inadequate if the UNHCR assumed new responsibilities in areas which had witnessed a substantial displacement of refugees , including Liberia , Cambodia and the Western Sahara . |