Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This scheme has replaced transitional relief which operated in the year 1990–91 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Somali Patriotic Movement , which operated in the southern Ogaden , in November 1989 agreed to co-operate with the SNM . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 7 | " The skeleton of a micro-organism which lived in the ancient seas from which the chalk in the putty was deposited . |
| 8 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 9 | A little earlier the mother of Dr Neil 's surgery boy , who carried out the doctor 's errands on the bicycle which lived in the outhouse , had come to say that Eddie had broken his arm and would not be fit to carry out his duties . |
| 10 | At the time of this study , which ceased in the early 1980s , average interest payments for the 73 countries were $27.50 per capita . |
| 11 | The 1830s saw the foundation of hundreds of small banks like the Midland , many of which failed in the successive financial crises of the following decade . |
| 12 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
| 13 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 14 | It was academic theory that was to define the two great periods of French station-building which produced in the Gare de l'Est and the Gare d'Orsay terminals which came to be regarded as definitive types . |
| 15 | The poet William Dunbar , born in East Lothian and educated at St Andrews , celebrated James 's marriage to Margaret Tudor of England — a liaison which led in the fullness of time to the Stewart succession to the throne of England — with a poem , The Thistle and the Rose , and summed up his entourage thus : |
| 16 | First was the economics of the New Right , which led in the direction of competition , user choice , and the break-up of multi-functional bureacracies into decentralised units ( such as the " Next Steps " initiative in the Civil Service ) . |
| 17 | From 1885 there was also a flourishing Band of Hope which met in the Tabernacle with an average attendance of 99 by the year 1889 . |
| 18 | There was also a Court , to resolve disputes , and an Assembly ( which met in the Council of Europe 's chamber in Strasbourg ) to provide a democratic element in what was already criticised as an over-bureaucratic organisation . |
| 19 | To publicise the event , a giant red tomato which glowed in the dark , was installed on the outside of the Bank building . |
| 20 | The immediate impulse was the prospect which arose in the 1830s that Canada might go the same way of rebellion as the American colonies . |
| 21 | Yet another new style was created when Nonconformist buildings adapted the designs of the public buildings which arose in the final years of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | This wider context of the developments at university and LEA levels is necessary for an adequate understanding of the difficulties which arose in the years immediately prior to the 1939–45 war between the Cambridge Board and the District as there were serious implications for the National WEA if the District 's problems had not been resolved through protracted , patient and complex negotiations . |
| 23 | It could successfully handle the problems which arose in the therapeutic setting with the masochistic patients , always a key requirement of a theoretical change for Freud 's theorizing . |
| 24 | Bultmann , as I mentioned , never speaks in terms of a two-nature Christology of the type which arose in the Greek world . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) The purpose of this provision , which re-enacts the corresponding provision of the 1959 Act , is to deal with the situation which arose in the case of Buchanan , 1910 S.C . |
| 26 | In 1935 he helped to form the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company , and thus facilitated the development of the Hurricane aircraft which fought in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ) . |
| 27 | Four cDNAs yielded a protein which comigrated in the EMSA with the N-Oct 3 protein of a human brain extract . |
| 28 | Apart from Rowe , City were also denied by an upright , which got in the way of a volley from Tony Rogers . |
| 29 | The flocks of sheep which grazed in the pastures near the villa were similar to the Soay breed — hardy creatures which produced milk and hard-wearing wool . |
| 30 | You have to pay SMP to any woman who has been continuously employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week and whose average weekly earnings are at least equal to the lower earnings limit for NI contributions which applied in the qualifying week . |