Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end they found five such factors , of which they felt the most important were the increase in the number of high-status jobs in industrial societies , and the increasing importance attached to qualifications rather than family connections when people were being promoted to higher job levels . |
| 2 | ( 1990 ) report that whereas in a Yorkshire mining community the pro-Labour Daily Mirror was the most widely-read daily newspaper , both before and after the strike , in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the pro-Conservative The Sun was the most popular before the strike , and equally popular with the Daily Mirror after it . |
| 3 | ( Waddington et al. , 1990 , show that in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the immigrant and the ‘ local ’ miners were spatially segregated within the housing stock and that most of the miners who joined the strike were among the recent immigrants whose home lives were somewhat separate from those of the rest of the community . ) |
| 4 | However , the committee went further and tabled a motion for next month 's full council meeting in which they attacked the motives behind the original motion tabled by newly-elected Tory councillor Philip Vanner . |
| 5 | Many clients have suffered losses from poor recommendations in the past , for which they blamed the trainee dealer , who rang them up . |
| 6 | The Etruscans put their burial places outside their cities , and due to the care with which they constructed the tombs many examples have been discovered intact , from the eighteenth century onwards . |
| 7 | The failure of the North-South Dialogue showed The South that The North — by which they meant the West — did have a coherent distinctiveness : power , financial , technological and military power which it protected with a specialized technological language unintelligible to anyone outside its closed circle except the Brown and Black Sahibs in The South who had been educated and trained in The North . |
| 8 | Life magazine ran an article entitled ‘ Dusty and the Duke ’ in which they contrasted the poles-apart stars with photos of Wayne in colour and Dustin in black-and-white . |
| 9 | The recurrent theme was ‘ informality ’ or ‘ progressivism ’ : the same value-orientation which they saw the Authority itself espousing as the touchstone for good practice . |
| 10 | The truth was told by a second half in which they monopolised the ball and did n't make one opening . |
| 11 | Plans now taking form call for leaving the Japanese practically all of the industrial capacity with which they waged the war and for financial assistance to get into full production again . |
| 12 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
| 13 | With the breakup of the U.S.S.R. , it is the latter part of the feat that will be difficult to duplicate , for as Christoph Vitali , Director of the Schirn Kunsthalle , mentioned in his opening speech , the State and the Ministry of Culture of the U.S.S.R. with which they signed the initial protocol for the show no longer exist , and several cities from which the art has travelled have changed names . |
| 14 | But the club 's liabilities on Dec 31 were £1,162,306 , of which they owed the Inland Revenue £126,368 . |
| 15 | Whenever possible he had been forcing the lords of Aquitaine to acknowledge that they held their " honours " , their counties , viscounties and other seigneuries , not as independent lordships but as fiefs , for which they owed the Duke homage . |
| 16 | Late in January news bulletins mentioned the Anzio landing in which they knew the Irish Guards were taking part and in February the dreaded news came that Joe had been wounded . |
| 17 | The dominant class in feudal society consisted of the landowners who owned urban land , from which they extracted rents , and non-urban land , from which they usurped the surplus generated by peasants . |
| 18 | One reason for their long-term viability derived from the extent to which they reflected the ideas of the non-governmental intelligentsia . |
| 19 | Ruth Merttens and Jeffrey Vass ( 1987 ) in an article headed ‘ Parents in schools : raising money or standards ? ’ discussed ways in which they structured the involvement of parents with their children 's learning of mathematics and Boland and Simmons ( 1987 ) describe ways in which they altered parents ' and children 's attitudes to reading . |
| 20 | Barth and Brunner moved on from that position and came to focus their attention on the re-working and re-stating of the main classical Christian doctrines , especially of christology , in which they believed the meaning and content of the revelation was explicated . |
| 21 | Breakaway orthodox delegates to the founding conference held a new conference at which they formed the Russian Party of Communists . |
| 22 | If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition . |
| 23 | Causation in defective product cases works on the basis of showing that the goods were intended to reach the consumer in the form in which they left the manufacturer ( alternative cause ) and that there was no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination . |
| 24 | The students learned to work what were often open invitations rather than clearly defined topics or themes into coherent lesson plans for two or three lessons of which they taught the first . |
| 25 | Bukharin and his associates used Rosa and Ernst Meyer 's hotel room in Moscow for meetings to discuss the mounting struggle inside the Bolshevik Party , meetings at which they ridiculed the ever higher figures being propounded for the drafts of the First Five Year Plan . |
| 26 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |
| 27 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded the number of trials in which they avoided the butterflies or pecked at them ; the numbers in the Table give her results . |
| 28 | Already , in expectation , the four archbishops had produced a pastoral letter in which they condemned the legalizing of divorce on the grounds of the preservation of ‘ the common good ’ and because they feared the tendency that people had to accept as right that which was legally permissible ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1985 ) . |
| 29 | There was speculation in December that the government was contemplating re-opening a dialogue with the Basque armed movement ETA after the Interior Ministry released to the press transcripts of two ETA prisoners ' conversations in which they condemned the use of violence . |
| 30 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |