Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there was something about these middle class daughter 's relationships with their ( rather less ) disabled mothers which made sharing a household less tolerable to them than for working class daughters . |
| 2 | It was this element of unreality which made tunnelling the most popular scheme for escape . |
| 3 | Belpan 's tax base was less than that of a medium-sized European market town , which made running the country a financial nightmare . |
| 4 | There are records of rites which involved tending the sacred flame in a religious context , and of other customs which bestowed religious significance on the domestic fire . |
| 5 | After an appeal from the Constitutional Court that President and legislature settle their differences , Yeltsin and Khasbulatov reached a compromise which involved holding a constitutional referendum on April 11 , 1993 , and freezing all constitutional amendments adopted at the Congress . |
| 6 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 7 | Most ancient silver was extracted from argentiferous ( silver-rich ) lead by cupellation , a process dating back to at least the second millennium BC , which involved oxidising the lead to molten litharge ( lead oxide ) , leaving the relatively unreactive silver as the metal . |
| 8 | The original method of producing acrylic sheet , which involved casting a thickened and part-polymerized methyl methacrylate syrup in plate glass cells and completing polymerization by heating in an oven , was devised in the 1930s . |
| 9 | In 3.3 and problem 3.10 a number of different groups of instructions were mentioned , which involved modifying the contents of an index register . |
| 10 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 11 | The plan , which involved charging a flat-rate tax per kilo , represented an attempt to reduce the amount of waste dumped in landfill sites . |
| 12 | He went on to obtain a commission in the Regular Army , which involved sitting the final examination at Sandhurst , although he had not been a cadet . |
| 13 | An alternative view might be that as the court considered whether the GMC had exercised its power in accordance with the Act it was in fact embarking on an exercise which involved making a finding of reasonableness ( or the lack of it ) in a fashion analogous to an application of the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 14 | At first we travelled under the escarpment , which involved crossing a succession of spurs . |
| 15 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |
| 16 | On Jan. 24 she announced further proposals which envisaged lifting the state 's foreign trade monopoly , full convertibility for the East German Mark by 1992 , the lowering of tax rates , and the introduction of a commercial banking system . |
| 17 | Kaysone called on the party to continue " comprehensively implementing the cause of restructuring " , presenting a list of economic tasks which included quickening the pace at which privately owned farms replaced agricultural co-operatives , and reforming the country 's financial and banking system . |
| 18 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 19 | Parker agreed to do so ‘ on Christian principles ’ which included taking no pay and banning racing results : this was somewhat ironic , given Bottomley 's links to the racing world . |
| 20 | WZ966 , WZ967 and WZ968 had had several modifications done to them which included removing the gun turrets from the fuselage and fitting extra aerials . |
| 21 | Restoration of the surface finish was the most time consuming operation , taking some 800 manhours which included bringing the wings and tail down to bare metal before re-applying a new surface finish and markings and minor repairs to the fuselage fabric before restoration . |
| 22 | However , at the end of 1981 a new superintendent instituted changes which included moving a number of the area 's community police-officers to other duties and clamping down on the activities by local youths which had previously been tolerated . |
| 23 | Being handsome , he had enjoyed only good fortune and fine adventures in his life , not the least of which included slaying the CHIMERA and defeating the AMAZONS . |
| 24 | Lonsdale also includes Blamire 's enchanting epistle , written to friends and describing a day which included doctoring the local children with her own medicines . |
| 25 | On May 22 , 1990 , the new Premier Antall read the government programme which included joining the EC within the decade as well as becoming a member of the new European security order . |
| 26 | Despite the ban on student activity , in 1989 there were strikes and demonstrations against the government 's new educational measures , which included raising the minimum pass mark and the elimination of courses in sociology , economics and political economy from the curriculum . |
| 27 | MacArthur had acted decisively with two recent tough moves against the Japanese Communist Party , which included purging the party 's central committee and press organ . |
| 28 | The senior management team spent one and a half days in Cheddar , Somerset , on a variety of teamworking tasks , one of which included mapping an underground cavern . |
| 29 | Gail , from Stepps , worked very hard for her success , which included spending a week of her holidays with young people as part of the residential section of her Award . |
| 30 | The most convincing answer is that Truman was intent primarily upon terminating the Pacific conflict speedily so as to save American lives but that he was interested simultaneously in strengthening American interests vis-à-vis Russia , which included restricting the amount of territory to be occupied by the Soviet Union . |