Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
2 | He made Joynson-Hicks ( good on penal reform but illiberal on all else ) Home Secretary , and thus firmly launched the Home Office , which had been different in the days of Harcourt , Asquith and Churchill , upon a course of dour obscurantism from which it took three or four decades to recover . |
3 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
4 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
5 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
6 | Earlier this year the NRPB published a ‘ complete description of the radiological impact of the fire ’ in which it considered 41 isotopes released in the fire . |
7 | Later in the same month , the DES published its Green Paper , Higher Education in England outside the Universities : Policy , Funding and Management , in which it presented two alternative models for a national body : what it called Model A , which was closely modelled on the one advocated by the local authorities on 15 July , and Model B , which was the one favoured by the DES . |